Re: [PATCH] Add 'preserve' subcommand to 'git stash'

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jun 16, 2023, 20:11 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqqv8fnrwtt.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <ZIzALOe8GBsNGIhR@ugly>

Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de> writes:

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>>Why a new subcommand, not a new option to "push"?  Adding a new
>>subcommand would mean it would be another unfamiliar thing users
>>need to learn, as opposed to a slight variation of what they are
>>already familiar with.
>>
> to be fair, there's also `apply` and not `pop --keep`.

I do not care all that much if that is fair, but I do not think it is a meaningful comparison. "stash apply" is merely exposing the first half (the other half is "stash drop") of a two step operation that is "stash pop".