Re: [PATCH 1/1] stash: document stash.useBuiltin

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

On Tue, May 14 2019, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
>
> The stash.useBuiltin variable introduced in 90a462725e ("stash:
> optionally use the scripted version again", 2019-02-25) was turned on by
> default, but had no documentation.
>
> Let's document it so that users who run into any stability issues with
> the C rewrite know there's an escape hatch, and spell out that the
> user should please report the bug when they have to turn off the
> built-in stash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/config/stash.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/config/stash.txt b/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> index c583d46d6b..d7bf6ec61f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/config/stash.txt
> @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
> +stash.useBuiltin::
> +       Set to `false` to use the legacy shell script implementation of
> +       linkgit:git-stash[1]. Is `true` by default, which means use
> +       the built-in rewrite of it in C.
> ++
> +The C rewrite is first included with Git version 2.22 (and Git for Windows
> +version 2.19). This option serves an an escape hatch to re-enable the
> +legacy version in case any bugs are found in the rewrite. This option and
> +the shell script version of linkgit:git-stash[1] will be removed in some
> +future release.
> ++
> +If you find some reason to set this option to `false` other than
> +one-off testing you should report the behavior difference as a bug in
> +git (see https://git-scm.com/community for details).
> +
>  stash.showPatch::
>  	If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an
>  	option will show the stash entry in patch form.  Defaults to false.

Thanks for following up on this. LGTM.