Re: [PATCH] git stash: one bug and one feature request

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 4, 2008, 18:05 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550801041005x3ab682dam8535c7bde75038dc@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <477E7439.9090209@nrlssc.navy.mil>

On Jan 4, 2008 7:00 PM, Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote:

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> Marco Costalba wrote:
> > Ok, drop is better then clear, but, if we need to add a new command I
> > vote for 'delete' or 'rm' to be consistent with git naming.
>
> If the stash list is thought of as a stack, then drop makes sense.
>

Yes, but is _not_ as a stack because you can say

git stash apply stash@{3} git stash apply stash@{1} git stash apply stash@{4}

i.e. you can access reflogs in any order, so thinking to a stack is misleading IMHO.

Marco