On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 03:51:12PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > Here's a somewhat hackish implementation of "git stash -i" that just 
> > relies on "add -i":
> 
> I like it.

Thinking about this some more, it seems to me to lack one really
important feature that "git add -i" has: you must stash all in one go.

That is, I may do some of the adds as "git add <file1> <file2>" and then
pick out the rest of the changes with "git add -p". And traditionally,
stashing has been about dumping all changes, so everything happened at
once.

But I think what I would really like here is to say "now I don't want to
stage for a commit; I want to stage into some bucket, so that I can
clear my workspace for making the commit". And then proceed to use "add"
or "add -i" in the usual way, except that they go into my bucket. And at
the end, I switch back to staging for a commit, make the commit, and
then start picking things out of my bucket.

And that workflow is not too hard to imagine by just pointing
GIT_INDEX_FILE to the bucket.

But I am still thinking on this, so I'll let it percolate and then maybe
try to implement something once I have a better sense of exactly what
workflow I want. I just thought I would throw it out there for others to
ponder.

-Peff
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