Re: making "git stash" safer to use

Bruno Haible [off-list ref] writes:

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While we're at it, I wish 'git stash clear' would take an optional
argument that says which stash(es) to clear, rather than blindly clearing
the entire stash.

It would help if git would store which of the stashes were applied since
they were created and which were not. A stash that was not yet applied must
be considered "precious", whereas a stash that was applied is redundant,
right?

Wrong.  I would say all stash entries are precious unless you
explicitly say "I'm done with it".  The problem is that we do
not have a way to say it explicitly.