Re: [PATCH] stash: Add --clean option to stash and remove all untracked files

[Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>]

Am 6/21/2011 7:08, schrieb Andrew Wong:
> Ah, this patch will be very useful. I actually ran into several scenarios
> before where I wished stash could do exactly this.
> 
> On 11-06-20 9:36 PM, David Caldwell wrote:
>> On 6/20/11 5:38 PM, Jeff King wrote:
>>> Hmm. I think I would call this something like "--untracked", as to me
>>> the main function is saving those files, not cleaning them afterwards
>>> (the fact that they are cleaned is really just making the untracked-file
>>> handling in line with what we do for tracked files; we put the changes
>>> in the stash and remove them from the working tree).
>>
>> I see your point but I thought "--clean" was pretty descriptive of how
>> the working dir ended up afterward. Maybe "git stash --everything" (or
>> "--all")?
> I personally think "--untracked" (and -u) is more intuitive too, since it
> tells you what "git stash" is about to do. i.e. "git stash" is about to do
> the usual stash operation *and* also stash the "untracked" files.

Really?

   $ git stash --untracked

sound like it stashes *only* untracked files. (That by itself may be a
feature that some people want; so far, I'm not among them.)

-- Hannes