From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:51:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Stashing untracked files
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709292248400.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <EEE8F630-AE62-4425-96A0-239D54724DF4@lrde.epita.fr>

Hi,

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Benoit SIGOURE wrote:

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

And what if you happen to forget to ignore that?  Or if you happen to 
have an strace log in some file (which you did not ignore either)?

Thanks, but I think the semantics of git stash is pretty well defined.  
And it means that you stash away _tracked_ content that was not yet 
committed.

I mean, you can have your desired behaviour with

$ git add .
$ git stash

but if we were to fulfil your wish and change the default behaviour, there 
is no way back to the current behaviour (which I happen to find pretty 
sane).

Ciao,
Dscho