From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:59:31 GMT
Subject: Re: making "git stash" safer to use
Message-ID: <85przuoato.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <858x6jff2v.fsf@lupus.ig3.net>

Joachim B Haga <cjhaga@fys.uio.no> writes:

> What makes it most dangerous is that there is no differentiation
> between a name and a command in the same position. I'd argue that
> either the command should be mandatory:
>
> git stash save mywork
> git stash apply mywork
> git stash clear mywork
> git stash mywork       # error
>
> (we can still keep today's shortcuts "git stash" and "git stash apply", 
> but only for the un-named case),
>
> or that the command should be of the option type:
>
> git stash mywork
> git stash --apply mywork
> git stash --clear mywork

Hear, hear!  I vote for the latter.  The former is still better than
the current state, though.

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