Re: git stash deletes/drops changes of

2013-05-24 Thread Jim Greenleaf
Phil Hord phil.hord at gmail.com writes: The wording of --ignore-changes suffers the same lack of clarity that --assume-unchanged does. What's better? --sequester is probably too obscure. Maybe --hold. Or --silence. Or --shut-up. How about --freeze? -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: git stash deletes/drops changes of

2013-05-24 Thread Jim Greenleaf
John Keeping john at keeping.me.uk writes: I wonder if this would be better as a file rather than another option to git-update-index. We already have .git/info/exclude so we could add .git/info/freeze or .git/info/local with the same syntax as the normal .gitignore file. .git/info/freeze

Re: git stash deletes/drops changes of

2013-05-23 Thread Jim Greenleaf
Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es writes: I was unpleasantly surprised to discover yesterday that doing `git stash` on a repository where I had previously run `git update-index --assume-unchanged FOO` completely lost all changes I had in file FOO. I just ran into this today. Was a