Re: Better usability of stash refs

> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 03:32:54PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>> To drop a stash, I have to do this (example):
>>
>> $ git stash drop stash@{3}
>>
>> Using the full "stash@{N}" seems superfluous since the documentation
>> states it must be a stash in the first place. It would make more sense
>> (and be quicker to type) to do:
>>
>> $ git stash drop 3
>>
>> Is there a trick I can use to make this shorthand possible? I thought
>> about creating a "s" script for "stash" that intercepted the
>> parameters for only a couple of stash sub-commands and created the
>> ref, but that seems a lot of work.
>>
>> Any productivity tips here? Thanks in advance.
>
> Junio mentioned that this is already possible. I suspect the problem may
> be that your Git is not recent enough. It was added in a56c8f5aa (stash:
> allow stashes to be referenced by index only, 2016-10-24), which is in
> v2.11.0.
>
> -Peff