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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [bug] [UX] `stash save --untracked` produces a stash that *looks* empty
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 22:51:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141009025112.GA19897@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543501CE.5040705@gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 02:50:14PM +0530, Tanay Abhra wrote:

> I think problem lies with  show_stash() which just shows the
> diff between working tree and the base tree, it ignores the
> untracked files. A quick and dirty fix can be to just show
> the diff between the untracked files and a NULL commit.
> Here's the patch, it works all right but can be implemented
> much better. I will try to find a better approach tomorrow.

You may want to read through another recent attempt at the same thing
here:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/254420

It ended with us just making "git stash list" behave like "git stash
show" (and show only the working tree); that ended up as 288c67c (stash:
default listing to working-tree diff, 2014-08-06).

Which isn't to say there isn't room for more improvement. But you may
find the backstory and pitfalls helpful (and I think Junio explicitly
said he prefers the current behavior in that thread).

-Peff

      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-09  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-05 17:28 [bug] [UX] `stash save --untracked` produces a stash that *looks* empty Alberto Scotto
2014-10-08  9:20 ` Tanay Abhra
2014-10-09  2:51   ` Jeff King [this message]

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