Re: [PATCH] Make stashing nothing exit 1

[Maksim Odnoletkov <odnoletkov@mail.ru>]

> On 23 May 2019, at 07:14, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
>
>> Am 23.05.19 um 01:57 schrieb Maksim Odnoletkov:
>> The problem with current behaviour is it makes it hard to use stash in
>> scripts. A natural stash use case is: wrap some operation requiring a
>> clean working tree with a stash push-pop pair. But that doesn't work
>> properly when working tree is already clean - push silently does nothing
>> and following pop becomes unbalanced. You have to keep that in mind and
>> work around with something like:
>>
>> if ! git diff-index --exit-code --quiet HEAD
>> then
>>    git stash push
>>    trap 'git stash pop' EXIT
>> fi
>>
>> With this change this can be simplified to:
>>
>> git stash push && trap 'git stash pop' EXIT
>
> In a script, shouldn't you better use 'create' + 'store' instead of 'push'?
>
> -- Hannes

Just like 'push' 'create' doesn't error on no-op and
doesn't create a stash commit – so you still need to handle this
edge case manually.

I was thinking of using create-apply pair for this use case but push-pop
has added benefit of preserving a user-accessible stash entry for manual
recovery in case stash can't be cleanly applied after the operation.