Re: Cleaning up git user-interface warts

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 15, 2006, 20:57 UTC
Message-ID: <ejfutp$cgc$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <87wt5wsabs.wl%cworth@cworth.org>

Carl Worth wrote:

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>On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:31:50 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>
>> For another example, having a commit command to commit
>> everything by default is disastrous for people who allow their
>> workflows to often be interrupted.
> 
> Workflow-interruption is an important thing to support, but separating
> update-index and commit really doesn't address it nearly as much as I
> would like. The lack of really good workflow-interruption support has
> been one of my longest-running annoyances with git, (perhaps because I
> have a problem with trying to do too many things at once). Git can
> create and change branches fast enough that it really should be able
> to help me better with this. The only missing piece is being able to
> stash the dirty stuff on the current branch, to be able to come back
> to it later. I've talked a bit about what I would like in this area
> before, and I really just need to code it up.

There is git-stash/git-unstash floating somewhere in the archive.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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