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From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [feature suggestion] Add 'git stash export', 'git stash import' commands to allow to backup stash externally
Date: Wed, 5 May 2021 23:58:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4ae27b9-3911-506c-a23c-3ed91bb250d1@rawbw.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35877543-93b8-00f8-692e-09a06d4679aa@kdbg.org>

On 5/5/21 11:43 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> I know. But, as I said, when you turn away from your current work, which
> is precious, then you should make a commit, in particular, when you can
> forsee that you might not be able to come back soon.


How can I commit unfinished work? Commits are public, this would break 
things.

> For long-term storage, use branches.

Branches are too heavy-weight. They need merging. Sometimes several stash items need to be used together, which makes it inconvenient.

Yuri


  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-06  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-05 19:51 [feature suggestion] Add 'git stash export', 'git stash import' commands to allow to backup stash externally Yuri
2021-05-05 20:07 ` Randall S. Becker
2021-05-05 20:11   ` Yuri
2021-05-06  2:22   ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06  6:07 ` Johannes Sixt
2021-05-06  6:12   ` Yuri
2021-05-06  6:43     ` Johannes Sixt
2021-05-06  6:58       ` Yuri [this message]
2021-05-06  8:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06  8:41           ` Yuri
2021-05-06  9:09             ` Junio C Hamano
2021-05-06 10:23             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-06  8:40         ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-06  8:45           ` Yuri
2021-05-06 10:45             ` Felipe Contreras
2021-05-06 14:10             ` Theodore Ts'o

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