Re: git pull opinion

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On Nov 6, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Aghiles wrote:

Hello,

who will run git stash clear? :)

Yes you are right. By the way, in the context of merging into a
dirty tree, "git stash clear" seems to be a dangerous command:
there is a risk of loosing all your changes without a question
asked!

I know unix is a harsh world but ...

Be *very* careful, because it's worse than that. If you run, say, `git stash clean', instead of `clear' (that's the sort of typo that quickly slips through), then it will stash all your changes in a new stash named "clean". Once you realize you made a typo, you will most probably correct it and run `git stash clear' but... Oops, you just wiped your changes that were in the "clean" stash. That happened to me and other people I know, so now I'm utterly cautious when I start a command with "git stash".

As far as I remember, a patch was proposed to change this mis- behavior of "git stash" (one could argue that it's a PEBCAK issue, but I really think this command is *way* too dangerous) but I don't think it's been accepted at this time.

Cheers,

--
Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna
EPITA Research and Development Laboratory


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