> > You could stash untracked files that are not ignored (I personally > > ignore *.o, *.a and the like). > > And what if you happen to forget to ignore that? Or if you happen to > have an strace log in some file (which you did not ignore either)? > > Thanks, but I think the semantics of git stash is pretty well defined. > And it means that you stash away _tracked_ content that was not yet > committed. > > I mean, you can have your desired behaviour with > > $ git add . > $ git stash > > but if we were to fulfil your wish and change the default behaviour, there > is no way back to the current behaviour (which I happen to find pretty > sane). But git add . git stash git stash apply will not be a no-op any more. It doesn't need to be a default, but there are certainly times when I would find the option to stash untracked files convenient. Tom - 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
