Re: [PATCH 3/3] pull: introduce --[no-]autostash and pull.autostash

From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 15, 2013, 16:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CALkWK0mzv8YZS8hctun-k-CnEzWo3TbJwmFX+Z4En8UHjNd5ww@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqmwszlqek.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

Matthieu Moy wrote:

> No, they don't.  Git forbids redefining commands with aliases. They may
> have an alias like "git pullauto" or so, but not "git pull".

Ofcourse, but you get the point.  I use p for push, and pu for pull myself.

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> There's not much we can do about it now, as Git cannot guess whether a
> stash is to be re-applied later or just kept "in case". My main use of
> "git stash" is "I want a reset --hard, but stash is safer", I wouldn't
> want "status" to remind me when I have a stash because it is almost
> always the case.
>
> Showing the "autostash" status in "git status" would make sense OTOH,
> but I agree that it's another topic.

If the HEAD of the stash contains a stash beginning with the message "pull.autostash: ", show it in the status. End of story.

Anyway, no point arguing about this since we've decided not to pursue pull.autostash anyway.