Re: [PATCH] checkout: add --autostash option for branch switching

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 13, 2026, 20:30 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq4imj4gln.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20260313193320.42832-1-haraldnordgren@gmail.com>

Harald Nordgren <haraldnordgren@gmail.com> writes:

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>> Almost all of the above is now stale, as we no longer call this the
>> "autostash" feature.  It turned into a project to vastly improve the
>> "checkout --merge" option, so the proposed log message needs to be
>> revamped to match.
>
> My feeling is that this feature will drift far away from what I initially
> needed. I have never used 'checkout -m' but stash->checkout-unstash is a
> pattern I use a lot.

Perhaps. But things like "checkout --autostash", which can entirely be done by the end user via a wrapper script or an alias, is not interesting enough from my point of view.

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