Re: git-stash: RFC: Adopt the default behavior to other commands

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 18, 2007, 15:15 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712181513060.23902@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <4767E07A.2020100@op5.se>

Hi,

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > In the alternative, you could just scrap all those default actions, 
> > showing synopses instead.  For all commands, including "git commit", 
> > "git log", "git fetch", etc.
> 
> Like we do for the git wrapper, you mean? Yes, that would be one 
> solution, although not a very good one for all commands.

Exactly.  Not a good one.

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> It's probably not a bad idea for commands where the primary use is 
> something else than producing visual output though, such as tag or 
> branch, but those handle creation/deletion of stuff, so the default 
> action for them is to list stuff of the kind they operate on. I fail to 
> see why stash should be any different.

I also fail to see why stash should be any different. And that's why I expect it to have a default operation, which is -- you guessed it -- "stash the changes!"

If I am not sure what I am about to do, there is -- wonder of wonders -- the "-h" option! And indeed:

	$ git stash -h
	Usage: /home/gitte/bin/git-stash [  | save | list | show | apply | 
		clear | create ]

So what exactly was your point again?

Ciao, Dscho