From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:40:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/4] Importing and exporting stashes to refs
Message-ID: <88915a18-de18-437b-bd74-91fb82ab760e@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20250612011221.4158484-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>

Hi brian

On 12/06/2025 02:12, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Stashes are currently stored using the reflog in a given repository.
> This is an interesting and novel way to handle them, but there is no way
> to easily move a set of stashes across machines.  For example, groups of
> stashes cannot be bundled, pushed, or fetched.
> 
> Let's solve this problem by allowing users to import and export stashes
> to a chain of commits.  The commits used in a stash export contain two
> parents: one which is the pointer to the next exported stash (or to an
> empty commit with no parents if there are no more) and the second is the
> stash commit that would normally be stored in the reflog.
> 
> Original thread at message-ID: <20220310173236.4165310-1-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
> 
> Changes from v7:
> * Rephrase the documentation to be slightly more explicit.
> * Don't have `write_commit_with_parents` free its arguments, instead
>    letting the caller (who allocated them) handle them.
> * Handle invalid combinations of arguments to `export` and add tests for
>    this case.

The range-diff between v7 and v8 looks good to me. Sorry for the slow 
reply, I was off the list last week.

Thanks

Phillip