Re: Stashing untracked files

> On 9/29/07, Neil Macneale <mac4-git@theory.org> 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.
> 
> Since this is an itch of my own, I have a local copy of git-stash that 
> does this (stashes away the untracked -- but not ignored -- files, and 
> restores them as untracked upon "stash apply"); unfortunately, I'm 
> pretty new to git, so I'm certain my code is *quite* unoptimized and 
> ugly.  As soon as I feel comfortable with it (which should include 
> making the new behavior optional), I'll drop a line here with some code.  
> :-)