Re: [PATCH] Add 'preserve' subcommand to 'git stash'

>Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> writes:
>
>>>Why a new subcommand, not a new option to "push"?  Adding a new
>>>subcommand would mean it would be another unfamiliar thing users
>>>need to learn, as opposed to a slight variation of what they are
>>>already familiar with.
>>>
>> to be fair, there's also `apply` and not `pop --keep`.
>
>I do not care all that much if that is fair, but I do not think it
>is a meaningful comparison.  "stash apply" is merely exposing the
>first half (the other half is "stash drop") of a two step operation
>that is "stash pop".
>