From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:24:30 GMT
Subject: Re: Usability of git stash
Message-ID: <86vdvsg4up.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
In-Reply-To: <nKimSsYZj6xfGNCQS3i5cRwnWQfbHrtUrwdGB2zGWVfMOcfZMwJDKg@cipher.nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
>
>> When trying to recover from that scenario, I do "git stash apply" as
>> recommended by the "git stash" output. Now I still lost my index
>> state, all changes are unstaged.
>
> See the documentation, apply has a '--index' option.

Still, the shoot-yourself-in-the-foot potential is quite larger than
appropriate for what is mostly workflow porcelaine.  It is even larger
than appropriate for plumbing IMHO.

I mean, even misspellings like
git stash lisp

cause action that is not easily reversible, and the given help output is
misleading with regard to index state.

-- 
David Kastrup