[RFC] stash --continue

[Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>]

Hi,

a git-newbie-ish co-worker uses git-stash sometimes. Last time he used
"git stash pop", he got into a merge conflict. After he resolved the
conflict, he did not know what to do to get the repository into the
wanted state. In his case, it was only "git add <resolved files>"
followed by a "git reset" and a "git stash drop", but there may be more
involved cases when your index is not clean before "git stash pop" and
you want to have your index as before.

This led to the idea to have something like "git stash --continue"[1]
that would expect the user to "git add" the resolved files (as "git
status" suggests) but then leads to the expected result, i.e. the index
being the same as before the conflict, the stash being dropped (if "pop"
was used instead of "apply"), etc.

Likewise, some "git stash --abort"[2] might be useful in case you did
"git stash pop" with the wrong stash in mind.

What do you think about that?

Although I think this would be a nice-to-have feature, I am not totally
sure how to achieve backwards-compatibility, i.e., such that using
--continue is still optional... (I think that "git stash apply" would
surely generate auxiliary data in case of a conflict and --continue or
--abort would remove it...)

Best
  Stephan

Footnotes
1. Perhaps with a better name, because it does not really continue.
Maybe a "git stash conflict [--resolved]" subcommand?
2. Along the lines of [1], one could use "git stash conflict --abort"?