Sure. It's just taking all the changes that have been made and stashing them to one side. This means the Git repository is then "clean" and can be updated. Git stash apply takes the changes that had been stashed and reapplies them to the updated repository.
Bill. On 2 November 2016 at 22:01, digxx <diger_d...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Diger@Diger-PC MINGW64 /d/julia/v0.5/nemo (master) > $ git config --global user.name "Diger" > > Diger@Diger-PC MINGW64 /d/julia/v0.5/nemo (master) > $ git stash > > *** Please tell me who you are. > > Run > > git config --global user.email "y...@example.com" > git config --global user.name "Your Name" > > to set your account's default identity. > Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository. > > fatal: unable to auto-detect email address (got 'Diger@Diger-PC.(none)') > Cannot save the current index state > > Diger@Diger-PC MINGW64 /d/julia/v0.5/nemo (master) > $ git config --global user.email "diger..." > > Diger@Diger-PC MINGW64 /d/julia/v0.5/nemo (master) > $ git stash > Saved working directory and index state WIP on master: cc4ae5d Merge pull > request #94 from thofma/update_version > HEAD is now at cc4ae5d Merge pull request #94 from thofma/update_version > > Diger@Diger-PC MINGW64 /d/julia/v0.5/nemo (master) > $ git stash apply > On branch master > Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'. > Changes not staged for commit: > (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) > (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory) > > modified: windows_build.txt > > no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a") > > Diger@Diger-PC MINGW64 /d/julia/v0.5/nemo (master) > $ > > > > Maybe just to update you. This is what I did. For whatever reason (which > I'm not aware of) it seemed to work now... > So I did git stash > then: > julia> Pkg.update() > INFO: Updating METADATA... > INFO: Updating Nemo master... > INFO: Computing changes... > INFO: No packages to install, update or remove > > and then git stash apply. If you dont mind would you tell me what is > happening in the background? > >