[Feature] Create new branch without touching existing changes

[SebastianSchumann]

If you want to create a new branch, there are only two options for dealing with existing changes:

• Stash & Reapply
• Discard

If you want to keep your changes, you must therefore select “Stash & Reapply”. However, this changes the assignments to staged and unstaged.

After this operation, all changed files from staged are in unstaged. However, it is possible that changes were made to one and the same file in staged and unstaged. If you want to create a branch to commit the staged files, they can no longer be separated from the unstaged files.

A “do nothing with the changes” option would be nice.

The branch can simply be created with the following command:

git checkout -b “<branch-name>”

This command leaves the local changes untouched.

[love-linger]

It's just because Stash & Reapply is better than Do Nothing since it's not need user to check whether these modified files have also been modified by others.

I've pushed a new commit that applies --index option to git stash pop command, which will try to reinstate not only the working tree's change, but also the index's ones. See git-stash Documentation

You can download the latest CI build from Github Action.