Re: I tried the latest git (was: A bug or issue with "git rebase --autostash" not popping the stash automatically)

[Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>]

Hi Henk,

Le 2021-11-15 à 05:53, Henk Smit a écrit :
> Hello Philip,
> 
> I just cloned a copy of the git source code.
> And built the "next" branch.
> And tried it myself.
> 
> $ git config --get-regexp alias
> alias.up !git fetch && git rebase --autostash origin
> 
> 
> To my surprise, the stash was applied!
> And changes/conflicts were merged in.
> However, the text put out by git wasn't very clear.
> And the stash was not deleted by itself.
> 
> Created autostash: 6c072c0da335
> Applying autostash resulted in conflicts.
> Your changes are safe in the stash.
> You can run "git stash pop" or "git stash drop" at any time.
> Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/main.
> $ git stash list
> stash@{0}: autostash
> 
> $ git --version
> git version 2.34.0.rc2.399.gc874808226
> 
> So there is progress!
> The changes are merged/edited in.
> But the stash remains. Imho it should be deleted, if the stash applied without any problems.
> What do you think?
> 

The stash was applied and it resulted in conflicts, so the stash entry stays in the stash
list. The rationale, I think, is that you might not want to deal with that conflict now,
so since the stash is kept, you can 'git checkout HEAD -- .' to remove the conflict and
get back to the file state recorded in HEAD, and deal with the stash later.

> If you and others think the stash should remain, maybe we can add a flag or config-option
> to force the deletion of the stash, after a successful apply? Or would that be too risky?

I think that it could be reasonable for that behaviour to be configurable, yes.

> Could a simple non-git expert like myself do those changes, and offer them to the git project?
> Or do they not trust strangers enough for such changes?

Yes, the Git projects welcomes contributions from everyone. I encourage you to
give 'MyFirstContribution' [1] a read :)

Cheers,

Philippe.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/MyFirstContribution