El 11/9/2007, a las 0:30, David Kastrup escribió:
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes:
I do not understand your fixation on actively wanting to get rid of
that stash. Why not just keep it, and be done with it? It's not
like it hurts, or eats little children.
It's the equivalent of not moving done work from the "IN" pile. At
some point of time you don't remember which of the stashes you already
did fold back, and which you didn't.
Exactly. Although I don't mind having to explicitly clear out the
stashes every now and again when they start to pile up, but there is
a definite usability issue once the list starts to grow beyond about
5 or 10 elements, and it can easily grow much larger depending on how
heavily you use it. For this reason alone I think it would be helpful
for Git to provide a convenient way of deleting specific stashes.
I understand that keeping stashes around after applying them is
erring on the conservative side (not destroying information unless
explicitly instructed to do so), but then, I'm hard pressed to think
of a use case in which you'd want to apply the same stash more than
once... can anyone think of an example? I guess you could conceivably
change your mind, reset and make some more changes before reapplying
the stash.
So it is quite natural to expect a stash to be gone after applying it.
The first surprise is that it is still there.
I too experienced this surprise. My initial expectation was that
stashes were like stacks; that "git stash save" was like pushing onto
the top of the stack and "git stash apply" was like popping an item
off the stack. After thinking about it I guess I don't mind that it
accumulates stashes the way it does, but I still think the lack of
ability to target specific stashes for deletion is a whole in the
feature set.
If a configuration variable or additional switch were to be provided
for auto-deleting a stash after applying it, I doubt I'd use it, but
I can imagine that many others would.
And the second surprise, sure to follow, is that trying to remove a
single stash, by any command that _starts_ with git-stash clear (even
if followed explicitly by a stash specification) will remove _all_
stashes.
Well, "clear" to me does have connotations of wide-scale elimination,
unlike "delete" which would be more specific. At least for me for
maximum usability the syntax would be:
- "git stash delete" to delete the most recently-added stash
- "git stash delete <stash>" to delete a specific stash
- and "git stash delete --all" (rather than "git stash clear") to
clear out all stashes
But yes, it was surprising to me to discover that there was no
obvious way of eliminating a single stash.
Cheers,
Wincent
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