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Better handling of erroneous git stash save "somemessage" --keep-index

From
Gunnlaugur Thor Briem <gunnlaugur@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 26, 2013, 15:59 UTC
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Hi,
the command:
git stash save "some message" --keep-index

stashes everything, including the index, and adds the "--keep-index" to the message. The manual labor of separating index hunks from hunks to stash is lost. This is in version 1.8.1.3.

This is a user error, of course (per the man page, parameters are not accepted after the message). But it would be better handled by erroring out, with a message like "git stash save does not permit parameters after the stash message".

Cheers,
Gulli
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