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From: "Jonas Flodén" <jonas.floden@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unexpected behaviour with git stash save --keep-index?
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:20:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g9ilut$n58$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902012804.GB6739@neumann>

SZEDER Gábor wrote:
 > 'git stash save --keep-index' means "save all local modifications and
 >  remove all modifications from the working tree that are not in the
 > index".  This differs substantially from "save only those
 > modifications that are not in the index, and then remove them from
 > the working tree".
 >

Thanks for the explanation. It seemed strange first but now I know
why it does that.

 >> Also maybe someone could someone recommend a way to split an
 >> unclean working dir into several patches/commits?
 > The workflow described at the end of stash's man page (under 'Testing
 >  partial commits') works well for me.
 >

Thanks. What about the case when I already have a number of existing
patches/commits and want to split the working dir into them.

Regards,
Jonas

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-02  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-01 23:14 Unexpected behaviour with git stash save --keep-index? Jonas Flodén
2008-09-02  1:28 ` SZEDER Gábor
2008-09-02  1:35   ` [PATCH] Documentation: fix disappeared lines in 'git stash' manpage SZEDER Gábor
2008-09-02  1:45     ` [PATCH] Documentation: minor cleanup in a use case in 'git stash' manual SZEDER Gábor
2008-09-02  6:20   ` Jonas Flodén [this message]
2008-09-02  7:45 ` Unexpected behaviour with git stash save --keep-index? Karl Hasselström

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