Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] stash: honor stash.index in apply, pop modes
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- Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
- Date
- Sep 22, 2025, 14:11 UTC
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Hi Ben
On 22/09/2025 02:39, D. Ben Knoble wrote:
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> With stash.index=true, git-stash(1) command now tries to reinstate the > index by default in the "apply" and "pop" modes. Not doing so creates a > common trap [1], [2]: "git stash apply" is not the reverse of "git stash > push" because carefully staged indices are lost and have to be manually > recreated. OTOH, this mode is not always desirable and may create more > conflicts when applying stashes. As usual, "--no-index" will disable > this behavior if you set "stash.index".
Thanks for updating the tests, they look good. As I said before I don't have a strong opinion about this change but I certainly don't object to it. I think this change will also affect the behavior of "git merge/pull/rebase --autostash" which we should maybe call out in the commit message. I don't think that change in behavior is a problem as it is probably what the user would expect when they set this config.
Thanks
Phillip
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> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPx1GvcxyDDQmCssMjEnt6JoV6qPc5ZUpgPLX3mpUC_4PNYA1w@mail.gmail.com/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/c5a811ac-8cd3-c389-ac6d-29020a648c87@gmail.com/
>
> Signed-off-by: D. Ben Knoble <ben.knoble+github@gmail.com>
> ---
> Documentation/config/stash.adoc | 5 +++++
> builtin/stash.c | 9 ++++++--
> t/t3903-stash.sh | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config/stash.adoc b/Documentation/config/stash.adoc
> index ec1edaeba6..e556105a15 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config/stash.adoc
> +++ b/Documentation/config/stash.adoc
> @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
> +stash.index::
> + If this is set to true, `git stash apply` and `git stash pop` will
> + behave as if `--index` was supplied. Defaults to false. See the
> + descriptions in linkgit:git-stash[1].
> +
> stash.showIncludeUntracked::
> If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command will show
> the untracked files of a stash entry. Defaults to false. See
> diff --git a/builtin/stash.c b/builtin/stash.c
> index d9b478d1d1..8a0eef3c70 100644
> --- a/builtin/stash.c
> +++ b/builtin/stash.c
> @@ -130,6 +130,7 @@ static struct strbuf stash_index_path = STRBUF_INIT;
> static int show_stat = 1;
> static int show_patch;
> static int show_include_untracked;
> +static int use_index;
>
> /*
> * w_commit is set to the commit containing the working tree
> @@ -662,7 +663,7 @@ static int apply_stash(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
> {
> int ret = -1;
> int quiet = 0;
> - int index = 0;
> + int index = use_index;
> struct stash_info info = STASH_INFO_INIT;
> struct option options[] = {
> OPT__QUIET(&quiet, N_("be quiet, only report errors")),
> @@ -759,7 +760,7 @@ static int pop_stash(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix,
> struct repository *repo UNUSED)
> {
> int ret = -1;
> - int index = 0;
> + int index = use_index;
> int quiet = 0;
> struct stash_info info = STASH_INFO_INIT;
> struct option options[] = {
> @@ -864,6 +865,10 @@ static int git_stash_config(const char *var, const char *value,
> show_include_untracked = git_config_bool(var, value);
> return 0;
> }
> + if (!strcmp(var, "stash.index")) {
> + use_index = git_config_bool(var, value);
> + return 0;
> + }
> return git_diff_basic_config(var, value, ctx, cb);
> }
>
> diff --git a/t/t3903-stash.sh b/t/t3903-stash.sh
> index b8936a653b..d6127173b1 100755
> --- a/t/t3903-stash.sh
> +++ b/t/t3903-stash.sh
> @@ -1595,4 +1595,41 @@ setup_stash()
> )
> '
>
> +test_expect_success 'stash.index=true implies --index' '
> + # setup for a few related tests
> + test_commit file base &&
> + echo index >file &&
> + git add file &&
> + echo working >file &&
> + git stash &&
> +
> + test_when_finished "git reset --hard" &&
> + git -c stash.index=true stash apply &&
> + echo index >expect &&
> + git show :0:file >actual &&
> + test_cmp expect actual &&
> + echo working >expect &&
> + test_cmp expect file
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'stash.index=true overridden by --no-index' '
> + test_when_finished "git reset --hard" &&
> + git -c stash.index=true stash apply --no-index &&
> + echo base >expect &&
> + git show :0:file >actual &&
> + test_cmp expect actual &&
> + echo working >expect &&
> + test_cmp expect file
> +'
> +
> +test_expect_success 'stash.index=false overridden by --index' '
> + test_when_finished "git reset --hard" &&
> + git -c stash.index=false stash apply --index &&
> + echo index >expect &&
> + git show :0:file >actual &&
> + test_cmp expect actual &&
> + echo working >expect &&
> + test_cmp expect file
> +'
> +
> test_done