Re: [PATCH] Document 'stash clear' recovery via unreachable commits

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:

> Add an example to the stash documentation that shows how to quickly
> find candidate commits among the 'git fsck --unreachable' output.

Thanks.

> Unless you have merges of branch names containing WIP, or edit your
> merge messages to say WIP, there will be no false positives.

That may be true, but I suspect that people's stash entries that are worth
saving are given their own messages with "git stash save 'message'" and do
not necessarily say WIP.  I wish if there were a better way to identify
them, but I do not think of any offhand.