From: Benoit SIGOURE <tsuna@lrde.epita.fr>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:10:49 GMT
Subject: Re: Stashing untracked files
Message-ID: <EEE8F630-AE62-4425-96A0-239D54724DF4@lrde.epita.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709292201400.28395@racer.site>

On Sep 29, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Neil Macneale wrote:
>
>> When using "git stash," in some cases I'd like to stash away files  
>> that
>> are currently untracked. It seems to me like there should be a way to
>> stash everything in a working directory so that the end result is a
>> pristine tree. Then applying the stash will reinstate those file as
>> untracked.
>
> Funny how the same ideas always come in packs: I had the same  
> discussions
> a few nights ago on IRC.
>
> Here is why I think it is _wrong_ to stash untracked files: this would
> include *.o and *.a, as well as all those binary files, too.
>
> Instead this is what you _should_ do:
>
> git add <the files that you care about>
> git stash

You could stash untracked files that are not ignored (I personally  
ignore *.o, *.a and the like).

-- 
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory