# defaulting git stash to "--keep-index" 3 messages from 2013-11-20 to 2013-11-20. Participants: Tim Chase, Nathan Collins, Jason St. John. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/35364 ## Tim Chase, 2013-11-20 01:50 Subject: defaulting git stash to "--keep-index" Message-ID: <20131119195009.6d4e183b@bigbox.christie.dr> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20131119195009.6d4e183b%40bigbox.christie.dr ``` Having lost "add -p" work enough times when stashing, I finally dug into the docs to see how to prevent it, discovering that "--keep-index" does exactly what I want. However, now I have trouble remembering to add the "--keep-index" until after I've shot myself in the foot. How do I go about getting "git stash" to default to "--keep-index"? I've played around a little with aliases, but haven't found the right incantation. The existence of "--no-keep-index" suggests there's some way to make "--keep-index" the default, but I'm missing it. Thanks, -tkc ``` ## Nathan Collins, 2013-11-20 02:08 Subject: Re: defaulting git stash to "--keep-index" Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAO8RVvdMD%2BxWrkwk%2B9Nbm7oyTTkc50PURxJe67ygkkTN-L41zw%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20131119195009.6d4e183b@bigbox.christie.dr> ``` On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > Having lost "add -p" work enough times when stashing, I finally > dug into the docs to see how to prevent it, discovering that > "--keep-index" does exactly what I want. Note that 'git stash (pop | apply) --index' will reinstate the index as it was at stash time, regardless of whether '--keep-index' was used to create the stash. In other words, your index is not "lost" when you stash. Also note: when you 'git stash --keep-index', although your index remains intact, the changes in the your index still become part of the stash. Hence, any changes to the indexed portion of your files after a stash usually result in a conflict on subsequent 'git stash pop'. This confuses me quite a lot, since I'd expect a main use case of 'git stash --keep-index' to be fixing a up a commit, but then any fixes cause a conflict :P Cheers, -nathan ``` ## Jason St. John, 2013-11-20 02:10 Subject: Re: defaulting git stash to "--keep-index" Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAEjxke_FNoj__J0y6JoXiFTAYY7WGDP4ntwJXcJO8%3DgxASbQCQ%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20131119195009.6d4e183b@bigbox.christie.dr> ``` On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Tim Chase wrote: > Having lost "add -p" work enough times when stashing, I finally > dug into the docs to see how to prevent it, discovering that > "--keep-index" does exactly what I want. However, now I have trouble > remembering to add the "--keep-index" until after I've shot myself in > the foot. How do I go about getting "git stash" to default to > "--keep-index"? I've played around a little with aliases, but > haven't found the right incantation. > > The existence of "--no-keep-index" suggests there's some way to make > "--keep-index" the default, but I'm missing it. > > Thanks, > > -tkc > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html git-config(1) states that you cannot hide existing Git commands. In other words, aliasing "git stash" to "git stash --keep-index" is not possible. You could try playing around with the exclamation point version (e.g. `git config "alias.stash = !git stash --keep-index"`), but I suspect that Git will still not allow you to hide the existing command. If you are willing to switch to a new command, you can fix this easily. For example, either of these would do what you want whenever you run `git stsh` (note the missing "a" in "stash") or `git stashki`: `git config "alias.stsh = stash --keep-index"` `git config "alias.stashki = stash --keep-index"` Jason ```