Re: Stashing untracked files

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 29, 2007, 22:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709292259070.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <46FEC799.30803@theory.org>

Hi,

[please do not cull me from the Cc: list, especially if you quote me.]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Neil Macneale wrote:

> Performing an add would require me to remove those file from the index 
> at a later date in the event that I don't want to commit them on the 
> next commit.

Wrong.

If you "git add <new-file>" and then "git stash", it will no longer have the file in the index. Instead, the index will agree with the HEAD (which does not have <new-file>).

Ciao, Dscho