Please don't remove the Cc list, it helps us (among other things) flag the mail that is important. On Monday 15 February 2010 15:32:44 Steve Folly wrote: > Thomas Rast <trast <at> student.ethz.ch> writes: > > Yes, [git stash without --index] does stage new files, but that is > > only to help you: otherwise you could forget them before > > committing. > > But that's even more confusing - not using --index only > restores *some* of the index. To be honest, > that's not really helping - I still have to stage deletions > manually. > > If not using --index isn't supposed to restore the index, > then surely it shouldn't be staging the new files? Not sure. I personally prefer the behaviour as it is now, as I have status.showUntrackedFiles = no and would most likely forget about them. It has been that way since the introduction of git-stash, so maybe Nanako (Cc'd) can enlighten us further. That being said, it could probably be made configurable along the lines of the patch below, or even with a config option. diff --git i/git-stash.sh w/git-stash.sh index 3a0685f..fc56e1b 100755 --- i/git-stash.sh +++ w/git-stash.sh @@ -222,12 +222,26 @@ show_stash () { apply_stash () { unstash_index= + dont_touch_index= while test $# != 0 do case "$1" in --index) unstash_index=t + dont_touch_index= + ;; + --index=apply) + unstash_index=t + dont_touch_index= + ;; + --index=added-only) + unstash_index= + dont_touch_index= + ;; + --index=none) + unstash_index= + dont_touch_index=t ;; -q|--quiet) GIT_QUIET=t @@ -293,7 +307,7 @@ apply_stash () { a="$TMP-added" && git diff-index --cached --name-only --diff-filter=A $c_tree >"$a" && git read-tree --reset $c_tree && - git update-index --add --stdin <"$a" || + (test -n "$dont_touch_index" || git update-index --add --stdin <"$a") || die "Cannot unstage modified files" rm -f "$a" fi -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html