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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Stashing untracked files
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 22:03:22 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Neil Macneale wrote:

> When using "git stash," in some cases I'd like to stash away files that 
> are currently untracked. It seems to me like there should be a way to 
> stash everything in a working directory so that the end result is a 
> pristine tree. Then applying the stash will reinstate those file as 
> untracked.

Funny how the same ideas always come in packs: I had the same discussions 
a few nights ago on IRC.

Here is why I think it is _wrong_ to stash untracked files: this would 
include *.o and *.a, as well as all those binary files, too.

Instead this is what you _should_ do:

git add <the files that you care about>
git stash

Hth,
Dscho