Re: Stash

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> There's no alternative here but to learn to use a different command
> for showing that:
>
>    git status --short
>
> It should produce approximately the same display as you are used to
> with CVS:
>
>     M modified-file1
>     M modified-file2
>    ?? unregistered-file1

But note that there are *two* flag characters at the beginning of each 
line: One for what's in the index, and the second for the file in the 
work tree.

I find it useful to add --branch to the flags.

And I find it extremely useful to employ git's aliasing mechanism:


; git config --global alias.s 'status --short --branch'
; git help s
`git s' is aliased to `status --short --branch'
; git s
## master...origin/master
;

Make your own shortcuts to often used commands this way. It makes your 
life simpler, at the possible expense of making it harder to explain 
your actions to others. (Just include the necessary “git help” commands 
if you need to explain what you have been doing.)

– Harald