From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 12:52:08 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] make stash apply with --index by default Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20250510183358.36806-1-ben.knoble+github@gmail.com> "D. Ben Knoble" writes: > Since git-stash's inception, it has defaulted to stashing the index but not > restoring it. This has caused some confusion: change the default as part of Git > 3.0 to unstash the index, too. I am very tempted to veto this, as I very much recall trying to see how I liked it and used in my workflow (by using an alias to do the "pop" always used with "--index"), got quite frustrated seeing that a lot of times the command would have worked perfectly well if the "--index" option weren't given, and gave up after a few weeks even though I tried very hard to like it as the default. As "--index" is a Boolean option, I can see that we probably already have "--no-index" for free, so there is an escape hatch already, but I do not think it would give a good end-user experience to force them to keep saying "--no-index" (that is 3 keystrokes longer than what those who want "--index" need to type).