doc(stash): clarify the description of save

The original phrasing of this paragraph made at least one person stumble
over the word "from" (thinking that it was a typo and "from" was
intended), and other readers chimed in, agreeing that it was confusing:
https://public-inbox.org/git/0102016b8d597569-c1f6cfdc-cb45-4428-8737-cb1bc30655d8-000000@eu-west-1.amazonses.com/#t

Let's rewrite that paragraph for clarity.

Inspired-by-a-patch-by: Catalin Criste <cris_linu_w@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-10 03:06:41 -07:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 5fa0f5238b
commit 57d8f4b4c7

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@ -87,8 +87,9 @@ The `--patch` option implies `--keep-index`. You can use
save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [<message>]:: save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [<message>]::
This option is deprecated in favour of 'git stash push'. It This option is deprecated in favour of 'git stash push'. It
differs from "stash push" in that it cannot take pathspecs, differs from "stash push" in that it cannot take pathspecs.
and any non-option arguments form the message. Instead, all non-option arguments are concatenated to form the stash
message.
list [<options>]:: list [<options>]::