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From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake•org>
To: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: `git stash pop` UX Problem
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:57:10 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85fvn40ws9.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vpqmwhexidi.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (Matthieu Moy's message of "Wed, 26 Feb 2014 11:45:13 +0100")

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr> writes:

> lists@haller-berlin•de (Stefan Haller) writes:
>
>> Your intention was clearly to drop the stash, it just wasn't dropped
>> because of the conflict. Dropping it automatically once the conflict
>> is resolved would be nice.
>
> Your intention when you ran "git stash pop", yes. Your intention when
> you ran "git add", I call that guessing.

You might be adding other files for other reasons. But if you add a file
that does resolve a conflict caused by 'git stash pop', it is not
guessing.

> The condition for dropping the stash should be more "conflits
> resolutions are done AND the user is happy with it". Otherwise, if you
> mess up your conflict resolution, and notice it after running "git add",
> then you're screwed because Git just happily discarded your important
> data. The point of keeping the stash is to leave it up to the user to
> decide between "I'm happy, I can drop" or "I'm not, I should re-apply",
> and Git cannot tell which is which.

Yes, that makes sense.

> Hinting the user to run "stash pop" would be more acceptable, but
> talking about "git stash" in "git add"'s code is somehow a dependency
> order violation (stash is normally implemented on top of Git's basic
> features, not the other way around). Does not seem serious from at first
> from the user point of view, but this pushes the codebase one step in
> the direction of an unmaintainable mess.

Also makes sense.

So "git add" and "git stash *" are lower level tools; to get the effect
we are asking for, we should use a front-end (which is why I'm writing
one for Emacs :).

-- 
-- Stephe

  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-28  2:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-24  8:32 `git stash pop` UX Problem Omar Othman
2014-02-24 16:04 ` Brandon McCaig
2014-02-24 16:21   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-25 12:14     ` Holger Hellmuth
2014-02-25 12:33       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-25 13:02         ` Omar Othman
2014-02-25 19:12         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-25 20:48           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-25 22:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-27 13:18               ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-26  7:37           ` Omar Othman
2014-02-26 15:17           ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-02-25 23:50         ` brian m. carlson
2014-02-26  7:34       ` Omar Othman
2014-02-26  0:39     ` Simon Ruderich
2014-02-27 13:22       ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-25 13:06   ` Omar Othman
2014-02-25 13:15     ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-25 14:12       ` Omar Othman
2014-02-25 15:25         ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-25 20:52           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-25 22:23             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 10:24               ` Stefan Haller
2014-02-26 10:45                 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-28  2:57                   ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2014-02-28  4:50                     ` Brandon McCaig
2014-02-28 15:12                       ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 15:42                         ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-28 17:27                           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 19:45                             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-03-01  8:41                               ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 16:02                         ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28 17:45                           ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-28 19:39                             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-28 17:45                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-01  8:47                       ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-26  7:28           ` Omar Othman
2014-02-26  8:27             ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 19:36               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 19:46                 ` Matthieu Moy
2014-02-26 20:20                   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-26 20:33                   ` David Kastrup
2014-02-26 22:17                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-02-27  0:19                       ` David Kastrup
2014-02-28  3:00                 ` Stephen Leake
2014-02-27 13:25               ` Stephen Leake
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-24  8:33 Omar Othman
2014-02-27 11:23 Damien Robert

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