From: Paul Tan <pyokagan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 11:51:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [GSoC] Microproject :- Teaching git pull --rebase the --no-autostash flag
Message-ID: <CACRoPnSoJvyvm4npw40AsgvPaviwb07akpiWtYWX3wTEME6wRA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1456485825-21309-1-git-send-email-mehul.jain2029@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Mehul Jain <mehul.jain2029@gmail.com> wrote:
> With this patch, git pull --rebase will understand --no-autostash command line flag.
> This flag will override "rebase.autostash" configuration(if set) and leads to a
> failure if current working directory is dirty. If "rebase.autostash" is not configured
> and no flag is passed then by default command will die if directory is to be dirty, before
> even calling rebase.
>
> I am also thinking of adding a "--autostash" flag for git pull --rebase, which will
> override "rebase.autostash" configuration(if set false) and will pass --autostash to
> git rebase. I would like to know your opinion on this option.

That was the point of the microproject ;-). --[no-]autostash means
both --autostash and --no-autostash.

Thanks,
Paul