Re: Stashing untracked files

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 29, 2007, 21:03 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709292201400.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46FE9924.7080006@theory.org>

Hi,

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Neil Macneale wrote:

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> 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

Hth, Dscho