Re: On the adoption of transient.el

[Stefan Monnier]

John Yates [2021-08-15 17:57:27] wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 8:55 AM Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>> Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:
>> > The strategy is to stash save all buffers belonging to the project,
>> > stash everything, inclusive untracked files, and than checkout to the
>> > other branch. When checked back, the stash is applied back. I don't know
>> > if you have something like that in magit or if it is something generally
>> > desirable, but I always wanted something simple and dirty to be able to
>> > switch fast when I need it.
>>
>> How would Magit know that when you "return back" to a branch it must
>> apply a certain stash?
>
> Rather than use a stash I would have a script that does two things:
> * Creates an undo script for the next step
> * Saves everything important as a new commit on the current branch.
>   This would include, among other things, all untracked files and the
>   undo script mentioned in the first step.

When the users look at this outside of Magit, they'll be very confused,
I think.  So, I think that the kind of functionality you're asking for
would be better implemented in Git than in Magit.


        Stefan