# Bug report: Git Stash; spelling mistake of stash followed by a yes prints character 'y' infinite times.

3 messages from 2017-05-03 to 2017-05-04. Participants: Rashmi Pai, Jeff King, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/45857

## Rashmi Pai, 2017-05-03 09:46

Subject: Bug report: Git Stash; spelling mistake of stash followed by a yes prints character 'y' infinite times.
Message-ID: <CAOqCAXTN6_dR=+As_i6yxOL+A3dOzs4bM5Lzbj6qzyT_3ecRcw@mail.gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAOqCAXTN6_dR%3D%2BAs_i6yxOL%2BA3dOzs4bM5Lzbj6qzyT_3ecRcw%40mail.gmail.com

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Hi,
I am a corporate user of git. I noticed that when you switch between
the branches and do a git stash ( I miss spelled it as git stahs). Git
asked if i meant git stash. and i entered yes. and git printed the
character y infinite times.

Below are the steps to reproduce.
1. create a local branch and make some code changes in the same branch.
2. now checkout another branch. git says Your local changes to the
following files would be overwritten by checkout.
3. Now do git stahs ( spelling mistake )
4. Now git says git: 'stahs' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

Did you mean this?

stash

5. Now types yes. and you will see character 'y' getting printed
infinite times!.

Though this is not a major bug, I thought notifying this would be a
good idea. The above mentioned issue is reproducible in Mac Yosemite
in git version 2.4.5

Thank you all for making our lives easier and better :)..

-- 
REGARDS
Rashmi Pai :)

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## Jeff King, 2017-05-03 09:47

Subject: Re: Bug report: Git Stash; spelling mistake of stash followed by a yes prints character 'y' infinite times.
Message-ID: <20170503094709.rn252pina4vdm6lv@sigill.intra.peff.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20170503094709.rn252pina4vdm6lv%40sigill.intra.peff.net
In-Reply-To: <CAOqCAXTN6_dR=+As_i6yxOL+A3dOzs4bM5Lzbj6qzyT_3ecRcw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 03:16:06PM +0530, Rashmi Pai wrote:

> Below are the steps to reproduce.
> 1. create a local branch and make some code changes in the same branch.
> 2. now checkout another branch. git says Your local changes to the
> following files would be overwritten by checkout.
> 3. Now do git stahs ( spelling mistake )
> 4. Now git says git: 'stahs' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
> 
> Did you mean this?
> 
> stash

After this step git exits, and you're back at your shell prompt...

> 5. Now types yes. and you will see character 'y' getting printed
> infinite times!.

...so when you type "yes" here, it is running the "yes" program. Whose
function is to print an infinite number of y's. See "man yes" for more
details.

-Peff

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## Junio C Hamano, 2017-05-04 05:23

Subject: Re: Bug report: Git Stash; spelling mistake of stash followed by a yes prints character 'y' infinite times.
Message-ID: <xmqqlgqd9ovg.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/xmqqlgqd9ovg.fsf%40gitster.mtv.corp.google.com
In-Reply-To: <20170503094709.rn252pina4vdm6lv@sigill.intra.peff.net>

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> 4. Now git says git: 'stahs' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.
>> 
>> Did you mean this?
>> 
>> stash
>
> After this step git exits, and you're back at your shell prompt...

Perhaps the suggestion message should be rephrased not to sound like
it is asking confirmation?

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