From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu•org>
To: Joachim B Haga <cjhaga@fys•uio.no>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: making "git stash" safer to use
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:59:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85przuoato.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <858x6jff2v.fsf@lupus.ig3.net> (Joachim B. Haga's message of "Thu\, 04 Oct 2007 10\:40\:08 +0200")
Joachim B Haga <cjhaga@fys•uio.no> writes:
> What makes it most dangerous is that there is no differentiation
> between a name and a command in the same position. I'd argue that
> either the command should be mandatory:
>
> git stash save mywork
> git stash apply mywork
> git stash clear mywork
> git stash mywork # error
>
> (we can still keep today's shortcuts "git stash" and "git stash apply",
> but only for the un-named case),
>
> or that the command should be of the option type:
>
> git stash mywork
> git stash --apply mywork
> git stash --clear mywork
Hear, hear! I vote for the latter. The former is still better than
the current state, though.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-04 21:09 UTC|newest]
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2007-10-02 12:16 ` git: avoiding merges, rebasing Eric Blake
2007-10-03 21:31 ` making "git stash" safer to use Bruno Haible
2007-10-03 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-04 8:40 ` Joachim B Haga
2007-10-04 20:59 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2007-10-19 13:37 ` stash clear, was Re: git: avoiding merges, rebasing Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-23 8:55 ` Miles Bader
[not found] ` <6C9F1445-8826-4E6F-A10C-290A57A4C826@lrde.epita.fr>
2007-10-03 23:01 ` Bruno Haible
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[not found] ` <C64152A3-A5A6-4320-864C-E78E3A60C8E6@lrde.epita.fr>
2007-10-08 13:16 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-08 13:17 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-09 10:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-09 18:06 ` Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-09 12:03 ` Bruno Haible
2007-10-09 18:19 ` GNU-style ChangeLog merge driver for Git (was: Re: git: avoiding merges, rebasing) Benoit SIGOURE
2007-10-09 19:38 ` GNU-style ChangeLog merge driver for Git Bruno Haible
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