# feature appeared in git 2.6 and xenial claims it has git version 2.7.4. eventually,
# this version test can go away.
gitvertest="$(git version | sed -e 's/git version [0-9]\.//' | sed -e 's/\.[0-9][0-9]*$//' )"
-#hmmm: temp below!
-echo gitvertest is $gitvertest
if (( $gitvertest >= 11 )); then
# auto-stash is not available until 2.6 for git, but ubuntu is misreporting or using a
# differing version number somehow. we are sure autostash was missing on ubuntu xenial