Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:02:46 +0100

Junio C Hamano wrote:

> * jc/stash-create (Mon Jul 9 00:51:23 2007 -0700) 2 commits
>  + rebase: allow starting from a dirty tree.
>  + stash: implement "stash create"
> 
> Will revert at least the latter one, but perhaps both, from
> 'next'.  The traditional behaviour of refusing to work in a
> dirty tree is much safer, as the tool cannot decide where to
> unstash for you.

One of frequently requested features is ability to rebase and merge
in a dirty tree (CVS-like). Perhaps we should advocate git-stash better,
e.g. in error message for git-rebase / git-merge / git-pull when in dirty
state.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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