Re: Stashing untracked files

[Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>]

> > You could stash untracked files that are not ignored (I personally 
> > ignore *.o, *.a and the like).
> 
> And what if you happen to forget to ignore that?  Or if you happen to 
> have an strace log in some file (which you did not ignore either)?
> 
> Thanks, but I think the semantics of git stash is pretty well defined.  
> And it means that you stash away _tracked_ content that was not yet 
> committed.
> 
> I mean, you can have your desired behaviour with
> 
> $ git add .
> $ git stash
> 
> but if we were to fulfil your wish and change the default behaviour, there 
> is no way back to the current behaviour (which I happen to find pretty 
> sane).

But

git add .
git stash
git stash apply

will not be a no-op any more.

It doesn't need to be a default, but there are certainly times when I would
find the option to stash untracked files convenient.

  Tom