From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:11:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [Resend PATCH] t3903 (stash): add failing test for ref of form ^{/message}
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Brandon Casey wrote:
>             # Save another stash here
>
>             echo bash >file
>             git add file
>             git stash save "something"
>
>             # Now git stash show stash^{/quuxery} no longer works.

Ah, yes.  My stupidity.  Why was I expecting ^{/quuxery} to dig
through the reflog?

> An extension to the reflog dwimery that implements @{/<text>} could be
> interesting though.

Yeah, this sounds interesting.

My initial itch that led up to this: I wanted a way to stash something
away and recover it at a later time predictably for rebase.autostash
(there might have been other stash invocations in between).
Originally, I thought I'd need a refs/stashes/* or something of the
sort to solve this problem, but git-stash.sh hard-codes refs/stash
everywhere (and so do other things like reflog).  So, I was thinking
about retrieving it based on commit message, but the solution is still
short of ideal.  What are your thoughts on my original refs/stashes/*
idea?