Hello,

I've always missed a way to do what `bzr shelve` does: interactive
stash, where you just select hunks à-la `add -p`, and then those gets
stashed away.

I've recently realized that git-stash doesn't need to know how to prompt
for changes, and that just a --from-index flag that would stash the
state of the index would be simpler and (at least in my eyes) very git-ish.

Do you think such a flag would be appropriate? I've prepared a
preliminary, but I need help with the part that removes the index
changes from the working tree (a partial git-reset --hard). I know
"checkout stash && checkout -" would do it, but I really don't know how
to do that with low-level plumbing (unless git-checkout is actually okay
for this.) Any suggestions?

Additionally, I have two behaviors I'd like in stash: the ability to
apply/pop on top of a dirty state, perhaps with a -f flag (at the moment
I'm just doing `commit -a -m foo && pop && reset HEAD^`), and the
ability to --amend the last stash state, as in "oh, add this to the last
stash please". Thoughts?

Many thanks in advance,

-- 
Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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