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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Fabio Augusto Dal Castel <fdcastel@gmail.com>,
	Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] New command: 'git snapshot'.
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:38:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090210233801.GA9617@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vy6wdkhzk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:08:31PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> Remember that 'stash' is actually TWO commands in one:
> >> * Save current state
> >> * Reset to HEAD
> >> 
> >> My primary reason to use snapshots is to AVOID the second step.
> >
> > Doesn't that argue for "git stash --no-reset" or similar instead of a
> > separate command?
> 
> How is it different from "git stash create"?

According to the man page, "git stash create" doesn't even store it in a
ref. I think the point would be to store it in a ref somewhere (as "git
stash save" does), but not do the reset.

But I have never once used "git stash create", so maybe I am
misunderstanding it.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-10 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-09 18:54 [RFC] New command: 'git snapshot' Fabio Augusto Dal Castel
2009-02-09 19:52 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
     [not found]   ` <38cfbb550902101232l4c83b6dfjc70e1e2f79a8c3c1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-02-10 20:48     ` Fabio Augusto Dal Castel
2009-02-09 22:36 ` Brandon Casey
2009-02-10  4:51   ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-02-10 19:47     ` Jon Loeliger
2009-02-10 20:31       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-11  1:22       ` Sitaram Chamarty
2009-02-10 20:40   ` Fabio Augusto Dal Castel
2009-02-10 23:00     ` Jeff King
2009-02-10 23:08       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-02-10 23:38         ` Jeff King [this message]
2009-02-10 23:39         ` Geoffrey Lee
2009-02-11 13:43           ` Jeff King
2009-02-11  9:04       ` Matthieu Moy
2009-02-11 20:40         ` Fabio Augusto Dal Castel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-02-10 23:58 Ulrik Sverdrup
2009-02-11  0:05 ` Ulrik Sverdrup

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