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From: erik88 <erik88@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	"Patrick Steinhardt" <ps@pks.im>,
	"Emin Özata via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, "Greg Hewgill" <greg@hewgill.com>,
	"Micheil Smith" <micheil@brandedcode.com>,
	"Michael Haggerty" <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Emin Özata" <eminozata@proton.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] stash: add 'rename' subcommand
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2026 11:00:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <amXJcVadL8btF_gh@vader> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqpl0mbetb.fsf@gitster.g>

On 26/07/16 06:11PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
>
> > I have a large number of stashes in my git.git repository (211 at
> > present) and it may be that I, in a mad rush to solve some problem or
> > another, went with the default message.  I do this kind of thing with
> > repositories at work all the time.  But it's inconvenient to have to
> > search through `git stash list -p` to see which change it was and which
> > stash I need to pop to resume my work, so I can see the utility of this
> > approach.

Same. I always accumulate 100+ stashes. I never bother with a message
when I stash. 90-95% of the stashes are useless cruft but there's always
an experiment, a script file of some sort, which turns out to be useful.

> Hmph, are you saying that you are going to wade through 211
> stash entries one by one and reword them?

Not me but my AI agent ;-)

      reply	other threads:[~2026-07-26  9:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-16  8:31 [PATCH] stash: add 'rename' subcommand Emin Özata via GitGitGadget
2026-07-16 10:08 ` Patrick Steinhardt
2026-07-16 17:46   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-07-16 21:08     ` brian m. carlson
2026-07-17  1:11       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-07-26  9:00         ` erik88 [this message]

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