Hmm …

Posted Nov 11, 2018 17:58 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Hmm … by neilbrown
Parent article: Apache Subversion 1.11.0 released

And how is that going to help us noobs (who don't have a great understanding of git)?

I tend to use git with a bit of a cookbook aide-memoir, I have an understanding of what's going on but it's not particularly good. An automatic "git stash" will be a pretty good way of helping me lose stuff, because I haven't yet got to grips with what stash actually does. Yes I know it puts stuff "somewhere safe", but as it is at home, "somewhere safe" usually equates to "I've forgotten where I put it" ie I've lost it.

Cheers,
Wol

Hmm …

Posted Nov 11, 2018 21:59 UTC (Sun) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359) [Link]

> And how is that going to help us noobs (who don't have a great understanding of git)?

The best way to help noobs like you is through education.
An important part of education is encouraging exploration and experimentation.

If something goes wrong and you try to fix it up and fail, and then post in some community "Hi, X happened so I tried Y and now Z", then someone says "Oh no, never try Y - that is a disaster, I hope you have backups" - then you might not want to experiment again.
If, instead, they could say "Y probably wasn't the best approach, but git has your back - just run this simple command and look through the resulting log until you see the code you lost - then do Q to recover it" - you might be more likely to experiment more next time.

So I agree that auto-git-stash is not a complete solution, but it does seem that it would still be valuable.