>> > > Well, I'm sure we all have different ideas of what makes an operation
>> > > frequent. I wouldn't say stashing is something I do particually often,
>> > > looking at the log is though.

Well I hope there are enough keys for all the frequent operations of
most people. Let me be even more optimistic: I secretly hope that all
people involved in this discussion are reasonable enough to realize
which of their frequent operations are actually specific to them and
more generally not frequent, and I hope that we will eventually all agree
on a common subset of "frequent" operations fitting on the keyboard.

I know, the above sounds crazily optimistic but this is how progress
is made?

Concerning which sub-option is more frequent I'd say let the git
command line decide and just be consistent with it.


>>>> >> >> I am not sure the Ctrl-u prefix is the best key combination/user
>>>> >> >> interface ever but it is consistent with all other user interfaces in
>>>> >> >> emacs and very flexible.

>> > > C-u isn't consistent by nature. You could rarely make an assumption
>> > > about what a prefix arg will do to a command.

All across emacs, C-u consistently enables the "less-frequent"
alternative(s) of a command. You are basically saying that the actual
meaning of "less-frequent" is often far from obvious. I agree but
this...

- has nothing to do with consistency (how could magit
  and... xcscope for instance be "consistent" with each other?)
- does not affect magit thanks to the interactive pop-up.

Once again I am not in love with C-u; I am just trying to be as
objective as possible to help find the best solution. And I have still
no idea what the best is.

 
>> > > What makes it very flexible? The fact it takes a numeric prefix?

I thought it could take more than that. But what do I know?


Cheers, Marc

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