Don't mention git reset --hard in the documentation for git stash save. It's an implementation detail that doesn't matter to the end user and thus shouldn't be exposed to them. In addition it's not quite true for git stash -p, and will not be true when a filename argument to limit the stash to a few files is introduced. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-stash.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt index 2e9cef06e6..0fc23c25ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt @@ -47,8 +47,9 @@ OPTIONS save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [<message>]:: - Save your local modifications to a new 'stash', and run `git reset - --hard` to revert them. The <message> part is optional and gives + Save your local modifications to a new 'stash' and roll them + back both in the working tree and in the index. + The <message> part is optional and gives the description along with the stashed state. For quickly making a snapshot, you can omit _both_ "save" and <message>, but giving only <message> does not trigger this action to prevent a misspelled -- 2.11.0.297.g9a2118ac0b.dirty