Re: On the adoption of transient.el

[Óscar Fuentes]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Jonas Bernoulli <jonas@bernoul.li> writes:
>
>>> I have to run Magit than bb and than Magit will offer a completing
>>> read which will pop the asked Helm interface. To me this is not a
>>> straightforward enough
>>
>>   (global-set-key [f1] 'magit-checkout)
>>
>> Also you generally don't have to "run Magit" and can just use "C-x M-g"
>> and in file-visiting buffers also "C-c M-g".
>
> Hi Jonas, I have tried your magit-checkout now. It does not really do
> what I had in mind. It seems to just be a wrapper around git checkout,
> and similar to git checkout gives error if there are unstaged changes.
>
> What I wanted was a fast straightforward branch switcher, no questions
> asked.
>
> 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? It seems to me that you are asking for some
Work-In-Progress management system, which use branches instead of
stashes. IIRC there are some Magit extensions for this and even creating
your own doesn't seem difficult, but IMHO your use case, in the way you
describe it, has dubious applications in general.

For starters, the part about automatically stashing untracked files, I
have seem cases where it would stash gigabytes of build products.