Re: stashing only unstaged changes?

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 24 2022, Erik Cervin Edin wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 3:20 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Is what you want equivalent to:
>>
>>     # save the "git add -p"'d chunks
>>     git stash push --staged
>>     # save the "uncommitted"
>>     git stash push
>>     # pop the previously staged
>>     git stash pop --index stash@{1}
>>
>> ?
>
> Never noticed --staged before.
> I just tried to
>   seq 1 3 >> bar
> then git add -p to stage with 2 and 3
> followed by a git stash push --staged but that gave me the error
>
>> error: patch failed: bar:2
>> error: bar: patch does not apply
>> Cannot remove worktree changes
>
> But I'm guessing the command (and approach) work fine if the
> staged/unstaged are in different files.

Huh!

No, it does work when you stage chunks in the same file, I tested this
by modifying the top & bottom of our README.md.

But we do indeed have that error (which looks like an unrelated bug) if
you try to "git stash pust --staged" a hunk when that hunk overlaps with
changes that are unstaged.