Re: Better usability of stash refs

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists@gmail.com> writes:

> To drop a stash, I have to do this (example):
>
> $ git stash drop stash@{3}
>
> Using the full "stash@{N}" seems superfluous since the documentation
> states it must be a stash in the first place. It would make more sense
> (and be quicker to type) to do:
>
> $ git stash drop 3
>
> Is there a trick I can use to make this shorthand possible? I thought
> about creating a "s" script for "stash" that intercepted the
> parameters for only a couple of stash sub-commands and created the
> ref, but that seems a lot of work.
>
> Any productivity tips here? Thanks in advance.

Isn't that already the case?

git-stash.sh::drop_stash gives "$@" to assert_stash_ref, which in
turn calls is_stash_ref, which in turn calls is_stash_like, and this
callchain eventually cals into parse_flags_and_rev.  Which has this
bit (may be hard to read because it is incorrectly indented):

	case "$1" in
		*[!0-9]*)
			:
		;;
		*)
			set -- "${ref_stash}@{$1}"
		;;
	esac

	REV=$(git rev-parse --symbolic --verify --quiet "$1") || {
		reference="$1"
		die "$(eval_gettext "\$reference is not a valid reference")"
	}