Re: [PATCH] stash: Add --clean option to stash and remove all untracked files

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 08:28:31AM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> > I personally think "--untracked" (and -u) is more intuitive too, since it
> > tells you what "git stash" is about to do. i.e. "git stash" is about to do
> > the usual stash operation *and* also stash the "untracked" files.
> 
> Really?
> 
>    $ git stash --untracked
> 
> sound like it stashes *only* untracked files. (That by itself may be a
> feature that some people want; so far, I'm not among them.)

I would be happy with something that indicated "untracked files in
addition to the regular stash". I just think it should be about "add
these other files into the stash", not "end up in this directory state".

Something like "--untracked-too" fits that, but is horribly ugly. I also
think it makes sense to have some way of stashing everything, including
excluded files.  That could just be "-x" in conjunction with whatever
this option is (which matches "git clean"), or it could be a separate
option name (like "--all" or "--ignored").

Things like "git stash --all" or "git stash --thorough" indicate that
you are stashing more, but it's hard to remember what the "more" is.

So I don't have any brilliant suggestions. Doing:

  $ git stash --untracked-too --ignored-too

is fairly clear, but somehow strikes me as unnecessarily ugly and
verbose.

-Peff