Re: Subject: [RFC] stash: let the stash stack live in a configurable ref

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> On a related note I've been meaning to add an option to specify an 
> alternative branch name when creating a stash, so that "git checkout -m" 
> and "git rebase --autostash <upstream> <branch>" can record the branch 
> that we're switching to, rather than the one that's currently checked 
> out when creating stashes.

Interesting.  I think we have seen ideas floated to allow per-branch
and per-worktree stashes in the past.  I am not sure how much we
should rely on the stash message, though.  The more heavily we rely
on it, the more restricted the end-user messages supplied via the
'-m' option would become.  If we were to officially support
per-branch stashes, we may have to adopt a more structured format
(which could be something simple like "at the end of the message
after the last ':' is the name of the branch the stash entry
targets", alongside a tweak to the '-m' option to always append
': target-branch' after whatever the user gives as the message).