Subject: Re: git stash deletes/drops changes of

From: John Keeping <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 16:38:53 +0100

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:34:26PM +0000, Jim Greenleaf wrote:
> Phil Hord <phil.hord <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > The wording of --ignore-changes suffers the same lack of clarity that
> > --assume-unchanged does.
> > What's better?  --sequester is probably too obscure.  Maybe --hold.
> > Or --silence.  Or --shut-up.
> 
> How about --freeze?

I wonder if this would be better as a file rather than another option to
git-update-index.  We already have .git/info/exclude so we could add
.git/info/freeze or .git/info/local with the same syntax as the normal
.gitignore file.