Re: Unexpected behaviour with git stash save --keep-index?

SZEDER Gábor wrote:
 > 'git stash save --keep-index' means "save all local modifications and
 >  remove all modifications from the working tree that are not in the
 > index".  This differs substantially from "save only those
 > modifications that are not in the index, and then remove them from
 > the working tree".
 >

Thanks for the explanation. It seemed strange first but now I know why it does that.

 >> Also maybe someone could someone recommend a way to split an
 >> unclean working dir into several patches/commits?
 > The workflow described at the end of stash's man page (under 'Testing
 >  partial commits') works well for me.
 >

Thanks. What about the case when I already have a number of existing patches/commits and want to split the working dir into them.

Regards, Jonas