Re: Feature request: make reset --hard add something to the reflog

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

"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:

> I don't know if we want this by default (although I could be convinced
> that we do), but I think this would actually be a great feature to add
> via a config option.  You are not the only person who has accidentally
> destroyed data with `git reset --hard` by any stretch of the
> imagination[0] and this would make that much less painful.

I do not offhand have a strong objection for the _feature_, but if
the implementation uses the default "stash", that is a bit
worrysome, as anybody, even a script, using "reset --hard" would add
a new stash entry, shifting the end-user's expectation of what the
Nth stash entry records behind user's back.

Doesn't "reset --hard" add record to the reflog already, by the way?
I agree that a way to recover the local modifications that "reset
--hard" is designed to get rid of is a good addition.  I just do not
know what the best vehicle to store the local modifications is.