Re: Better usability of stash refs

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On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:56 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 03:32:54PM -0500, Robert Dailey wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Junio mentioned that this is already possible. I suspect the problem may
> be that your Git is not recent enough. It was added in a56c8f5aa (stash:
> allow stashes to be referenced by index only, 2016-10-24), which is in
> v2.11.0.
>
> -Peff

Thanks guys. Actually I'm running 2.13, I just haven't tried it since
way before 2.11. I always assumed it wasn't working like I expected
since last time I tried it. Yesterday I just happened to remember that
this would be nice to have, so I wrote the email but didn't bother
testing it on the newest version first. Sorry about that.



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