From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Better cooperation between checkouts and stashing Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 12:09:06 -0800 Message-ID: <7vaav6b925.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <4B67227A.7030908@web.de> <7vhbq0wuy6.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4B71B574.3010609@web.de> <7vbpfy9nt4.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4B7D7C5E.7060807@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Markus Elfring X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 18 21:09:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NiCgb-0006vi-H1 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:09:21 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758388Ab0BRUJQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:09:16 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:36942 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754397Ab0BRUJO (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:09:14 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 399A89B5FB; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:09:14 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=wbry10kzb1FXgIz3K2jJRgkuLA0=; b=eG3XrP FtmU0GbCdBxoI/wdDCyQ5LFbrdq4UNqHtZwpY99wZqOlJbiLPGGB0GkG0h+TNpVn Bzcua0SLp+1H+W13+OD/f6ZbJC6nybP5Q9VqQQt4Wd6Y1Zsfe6JckhJ3qWLDQKAs uGe+OTcQKugwJfNC7qt4HW20gZX9zYX2+48gY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=Ke9wSCcmMgRbHNAHdGXgYPZ+gBUG07lm HRtYPXbCTv+V5fiDcrmf0v/DJhxe28W6BG3RoYbetVlOBRIVgszsXS2V9gwEf0vZ MGVReytg8QVXo8LtuOzVXB7pe19WiO25rkTzgbYpuCEhLTH3VYWb2/qnhIFBIDoY dfXc3gFLa/c= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A96F39B5FA; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:09:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8FFF79B5F6; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:09:08 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <4B7D7C5E.7060807@web.de> (Markus Elfring's message of "Thu\, 18 Feb 2010 18\:43\:58 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 7AADD70C-1CC9-11DF-AE33-D83AEE7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Markus Elfring writes: >> I did say and still think that it would be good to have in the documentation >> a separate section that teaches the users what happens to their uncommitted >> changes when checking out a different branch (or an unnamed branch). > > How are the chances to achieve progress on this issue? How would _I_ know? It depends on the probability of somebody who cares about improving the documentation having enough time and motivation to do the actual work, and submitting the patch. It also depends on the quality of the result.