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Re: [PATCH 1/2] stash create: remove duplicate changes detection

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Oct 6, 2026, 12:44 UTC
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Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:
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> From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
>
> Before it creates a stash, git checks if there are any unstaged,
> or uncommitted changes. If there isn't anything to stash it bails
> out. Since ef0f0b4509 (stash: optimize `get_untracked_files()`
> and `check_changes()`, 2019-02-25) "git stash store" has checked
"store"?  Aren't we talking about "create"?
> unreliable (the scripted version of "git stash store", called "git
> update-index -q --refresh" before looking for any changes).
Ditto.
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> Avoid checking for changes twice by removing the call to
> check_changes_tracked_files() from store_stash() and restore the return
> code handling in store_stash() that was removed by ef0f0b4509 so that
> we continue to exit 0 when there are no changes to stash. In principle
> we could remove the call to check_changes() from do_store_stash()
> instead, but then we'd need to pass in the list of untracked files.
Again "(do_)?store" -> "\1create"?
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Message 3 of 9 in “stash: stop checking for changes twice”
  1. 0/2 stash: stop checking for changes twicePhillip Wood, Oct 5, 2026
  2. 1/2 stash create: remove duplicate changes detectionPhillip Wood, Oct 5, 2026
  3. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2026
  4. Phillip WoodOct 7, 2026
  5. 2/2 stash push: remove duplicate changes detectionPhillip Wood, Oct 5, 2026
  6. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2026
  7. Phillip WoodOct 7, 2026
  8. Junio C HamanoOct 7, 2026
  9. Phillip WoodOct 8, 2026

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