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From:   Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add 'preserve' subcommand to 'git stash'
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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