On Tue, May 14 2019, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
>
> The stash.useBuiltin variable introduced in 90a462725e ("stash:
> optionally use the scripted version again", 2019-02-25) was turned on by
> default, but had no documentation.
>
> Let's document it so that users who run into any stability issues with
> the C rewrite know there's an escape hatch, and spell out that the
> user should please report the bug when they have to turn off the
> built-in stash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/config/stash.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config/stash.txt b/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> index c583d46d6b..d7bf6ec61f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
> +stash.useBuiltin::
> + Set to `false` to use the legacy shell script implementation of
> + linkgit:git-stash[1]. Is `true` by default, which means use
> + the built-in rewrite of it in C.
> ++
> +The C rewrite is first included with Git version 2.22 (and Git for Windows
> +version 2.19). This option serves an an escape hatch to re-enable the
> +legacy version in case any bugs are found in the rewrite. This option and
> +the shell script version of linkgit:git-stash[1] will be removed in some
> +future release.
> ++
> +If you find some reason to set this option to `false` other than
> +one-off testing you should report the behavior difference as a bug in
> +git (see https://git-scm.com/community for details).
> +
> stash.showPatch::
> If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an
> option will show the stash entry in patch form. Defaults to false.
Thanks for following up on this. LGTM.
