From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 09:47:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add 'preserve' subcommand to 'git stash'
Message-ID: <ZI7SzSuT26XXKzah@ugly>
In-Reply-To: <f6a510f8-f569-6b1e-a74d-cdd103b39c10@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 12:05:21PM +0300, Nadav Goldstein wrote:
>Let me try to explain my motivation:
>I heavily use stash to set quick points in my code so I could go back to 
>them (during thought process), and I want to store my changes quickly 
>and continue from there.
>
so why are you (ab-)using stash for that, rather than just committing 
each time, and later cleaning it by using `reset [--mixed]` and 
re-committing (or using `rebase --interactive`)? the reflog holds 
information about "lost" commits (the stash is just a somewhat special 
reflog, too).

regards,
ossi