Re: [PATCH] [RFC PATCH] stash save/push: add --index-only option

[Edmundo Carmona Antoranz <eantoranz@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 10:55 AM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> IIUC, the simplest workflow using the new feature may go like this:
>
>         $ edit file ;# edit a bit
>         $ git add file
>         $ edit file ;# even even more
>         $ git stash --cached
>
> After all of the above is done, "git stash list" may show that there
> is a single stash that records the changes you made to the file
> right after you added it, without your further changes (because you
> are taking what is in the index).  Your working tree has all the
> changes you made to file, both before and after "git add", and your
> index is clean.
>
> After you got yourself into this state where your index is clean,
> your working tree file has all changes, and your stash entry has
> only the earlier half of the change, what are you going to do with
> that stash entry?  If we learn the answer to that question, perhaps
> we may find (or we may even have) a better or easier way to achieve
> whatever you were planning to do with that stash entry by some other
> means---it might not even involve "git stash"---but without knowing
> that, we cannot tell if the new feature is a good idea.

Actually, let this conversation burn in /dev/null. What I want to
achieve (stash only some changes and not all of them) can be done by
using git stash push providing pathspec.

>
> Thanks.

Thank you!