Re: 'git stash push -- {dir}' puts files in stash that are outside of {dir}

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 26, 2023, 18:14 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqo7jyczgj.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <792f71bb-2b9a-2e2b-80ea-9e3afd9fbfb4@tsoft.com>

Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com> writes:

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> On 7/26/23 10:29, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Are there configuration variables set to affect the behaviour of the
>> "git stash" command in your environment that I do not have (I have
>> nothing in "git config -l | grep stash" output), which may be
>> affecting why it does not reproduce for me?
>
>
> "git config -l | grep stash" doesn't print anything.

Another thing to try. The command internally uses some internal form of "git diff" to find out what to save and reset to the HEAD version in the working tree, so if you have an exotic configuration variable that affects the way "diff" behaves, it _could_ trigger a symptom like that (needless to say, the internal invocation of "git diff" should have prepared for such an end-user configuration and explicitly countermanded it, but people add configuration variables after a command was implemented without thinking the ramification through and especially when they are rarely used ones that do not usually appear on Git developers' radar, such a bad interaction can go unnoticed for a long time).