From: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
To: Nadav Goldstein <nadav.goldstein96@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Nadav Goldstein via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add 'preserve' subcommand to 'git stash'
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2023 11:47:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZI7SzSuT26XXKzah@ugly> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f6a510f8-f569-6b1e-a74d-cdd103b39c10@gmail.com>
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 12:05:21PM +0300, Nadav Goldstein wrote:
>Let me try to explain my motivation:
>I heavily use stash to set quick points in my code so I could go back to
>them (during thought process), and I want to store my changes quickly
>and continue from there.
>
so why are you (ab-)using stash for that, rather than just committing
each time, and later cleaning it by using `reset [--mixed]` and
re-committing (or using `rebase --interactive`)? the reflog holds
information about "lost" commits (the stash is just a somewhat special
reflog, too).
regards,
ossi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-18 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-16 11:00 [PATCH] Add 'preserve' subcommand to 'git stash' Nadav Goldstein via GitGitGadget
2023-06-16 16:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-16 20:03 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-06-16 20:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-17 8:39 ` Oswald Buddenhagen
2023-06-17 11:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2023-06-18 9:05 ` Nadav Goldstein
2023-06-18 9:47 ` Oswald Buddenhagen [this message]
2023-06-18 10:57 ` Nadav Goldstein
2023-06-19 1:42 ` Junio C Hamano
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