Re: [RFC] New command: 'git snapshot'.

[Ulrik Sverdrup <ulrik.sverdrup@gmail.com>]

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> > Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> > How is it different from "git stash create"?
>
> Git stash doesn't touch untracked files, whereas git snapshot would.
> Take another closer look at the table in the original post titled
> "What are the differences between 'git stash' and 'git snapshot'?"
>
> -Geoffrey Lee

I'm understanding this just as I read this, but it seems that implementing a
git snapshot (I'm myself interested), could be done quickly with a new git.
(When was git stash create introduced? I don't know it?)

Something like this:
cp .git/index .git/tmp-index
GIT_INDEX_FILE=.git/tmp-index
git add -N .
git stash create

So we use add -N to put all files into tracked but unstaged by default, but we
keep our old index. Now stash is ready to save off the working directory, and
further logic has to be applied on the returned commit to save it off..


Ulrik Sverdrup