Re: [PATCH 2/2] git-gc: skip stashes when expiring reflogs

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

quoted

Of course,

	$ git stash apply stashed-longer

would work but that is by accident, as at that point what you are feeding
"git stash" command is not really a name of a ref that is a stash.

It would not be by accident.  It would work because we designed git-stash 
to use refs to store working-directory vs index changes, and this command 
line you wrote was _exactly_ what I intended.

Well, it is.  For normal stash oriented operations such as

    $ git stash list stashed-longer
    $ git stash apply stashed-longer@{22}

won't work on them.  Only the quoted form works and that _is_ by accident.