Re: [PATCH] git-add -p: be able to undo a given hunk

[Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>]

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> Yeah, such a stash entry would be more like "trash can".  It is not
> "to-be-deleted" but "have been deleted, but you _could_ resurrect".
> 
> It may not be a bad idea to do it that way, or perhaps "git checkout -p"
> can automatically create such a trash can while undoing the local changes
> in the work tree.

I'd rather implement this as part of the generic "worktree/index log"
that was proposed a while back, where any index- or
worktree-overwriting operation that actually discards data would save
the lost state in a special reflog.  That way people won't complain
because 'git checkout -p -- $file' <press a> saved their state, but
'git checkout -- $file' didn't, even though they should be equivalent.

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Thomas Rast
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