From: JM Ibanez Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:26:20 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-stash: add new 'drop' subcommand Message-ID: <871w8woc77.fsf@adler.orangeandbronze.com> In-Reply-To: <20080105035118.GB26892@coredump.intra.peff.net> Jeff King writes: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:31:00PM -0600, Brandon Casey wrote: > >> Thus far I haven't been a big user of git stash, but I plan to >> use it more and I expect to use 'drop' more often than >> 'clear'. I expect in the common case there will be a single > > There was some discussion of a sensible name, but I don't recall seeing > a resolution on this: why not "clear stash@{0}" to clear one, and > "clear" to clear all? Otherwise, I foresee "git stash clear stash@{0}" > followed by "oops, I just deleted all of my stashes." I actually got hit by this. I didn't know that stash clear affected all stashes and lost quite a bit of work that way (I use stash to store various test database configs for a tree I work with, and so lost all of them when trying to remove one particular stash). > I guess you get "git stash drop" as a synonym for "git stash drop > stash@{0}" this way, but it just seems mean to users to make them > remember which of "drop" and "clear" does what they want. I have to agree with this. -- JM Ibanez Software Architect Orange & Bronze Software Labs, Ltd. Co. jm@orangeandbronze.com http://software.orangeandbronze.com/