Re: [PATCH] stash: add 'rename' subcommand

From: erik88 <erik88@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2026, 09:00 UTC
Message-ID: <amXJcVadL8btF_gh@vader>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpl0mbetb.fsf@gitster.g>

On 26/07/16 06:11PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
>
> > I have a large number of stashes in my git.git repository (211 at
> > present) and it may be that I, in a mad rush to solve some problem or
> > another, went with the default message.  I do this kind of thing with
> > repositories at work all the time.  But it's inconvenient to have to
> > search through `git stash list -p` to see which change it was and which
> > stash I need to pop to resume my work, so I can see the utility of this
> > approach.

Same. I always accumulate 100+ stashes. I never bother with a message when I stash. 90-95% of the stashes are useless cruft but there's always an experiment, a script file of some sort, which turns out to be useful.

> Hmph, are you saying that you are going to wade through 211
> stash entries one by one and reword them?

Not me but my AI agent ;-)