On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Kevin Daudt wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 07:10:46AM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > couple (admittedly trivial) questions about stashing. first, can
> > i clarify that when one stashes content, a stash *always*
> > distinguishes between what was staged, and what was unstaged? that
> > is, when one is stashing, the "--keep-index" option relates to
> > whether or not staged changes are left in the index (and,
> > consequently, in the working directory as well), but that option
> > has no effect on the final content of the stash, yes? even if
> > "--keep-index" is used, staged content still ends up in the stash.
> >
> > also, is there a simple way to distinguish between the staged
> > and unstaged contents of a stash (or, more basically, is this even
> > a useful question to ask)? out of curiosity, i tried to figure out
> > how to do this, and came up with the following.
> >
> > to see staged portion of stash@{0}:
> >
> > $ git show stash@{0}^2
> >
> > to see unstaged portion:
> >
> > $ git diff stash@{0}^2 stash@{0}
> >
> > it's not like i have a pressing need to do that, i was just
> > curious if there's a simpler way to do this, or if this is just
> > not something people should need to do on a regular basis.
>
> There was a recent thread about this[0]. The conclusion is that it's
> seen as a good change, someone just needs to supply the patch to do
> this. A possible solution was also provided (from before that
> thread) here [1]
>
> [0]:https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/
> [1]:https://public-inbox.org/git/[email protected]/
ah, i see immediately what sort of worm can this represents, given
the various possible states of files in the stash:
* staged and tracked
* unstaged and tracked
* untracked but not ignored
* untracked and ignored
i will continue reading.
rday
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