Re: git pull opinion

> * Benoit Sigoure wrote on Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:29:58AM CET:
> > On Nov 6, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Aghiles wrote:
> >
> >>> who will run git stash clear? :)
> >>
> >> Yes you are right. By the way, in the context of merging into a
> >> dirty tree, "git stash clear" seems to be a dangerous command:
> >> there is a risk of loosing all your changes without a question
> >> asked!
> 
> I would love it if for once in the git world, there were a pair of
> commands that would do the exact opposite of each other and where the
> naive newbie (me) would immediately recognize that from their names:
>   git stash push
>   git stash pop
> 
> Both applied in this order should be a no-op on both the working tree,
> the index, and also the stash.  There's room for extensions (pop
> --keep-stash to not remove the stashed information), explicit naming of
> stashes, doing multiple pops at once, and so on.  Please don't add more
> of the git-push/git-pull, git-add/git-rm unsymmetrical interfaces.
> Even if they're perfectly clear to git intimates, each one of them
> takes precious extra time to learn due to this lack of symmetry.
> 
> Since I simply don't have the time resources to just implement that, 
> I'll thank you for your attention and go back to lurking mode now.