From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Ingo Brueckl <ib@wupperonline.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question concerning branches
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:57:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200908192257.23347.jnareb@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090819203917.GH27206@mit.edu>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> Personally, in the cases where I can't finish a commit before I need
> to switch away to another branch, my preference is to not use "git
> stash", but instead to create a topic branch, and then check in a
> partially completed change on the topic branch, which I can later
> ammend using "git commit --amend" (or if I have multiple commits on
> the topic branch, "git rebase --interactive"). This is because I can
> use the commit description to leave myself some notes about what still
> needs to be done before the commit can be finalized.
Errr... you are aware that you can use "git stash save <message>" (i.e.
specify commit message for stash; well, the subject), don't you?
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-19 20:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-19 17:33 question concerning branches Ingo Brueckl
2009-08-19 18:07 ` Bruce Stephens
2009-08-19 18:07 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-08-19 18:31 ` Ingo Brueckl
2009-08-19 19:08 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-19 19:45 ` Ingo Brueckl
2009-08-19 19:50 ` Avery Pennarun
2009-08-20 7:57 ` Matthieu Moy
2009-08-19 19:53 ` Jacob Helwig
2009-08-19 20:01 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-19 20:39 ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-19 20:57 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2009-08-20 17:37 ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-19 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-20 3:01 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2009-08-20 12:46 ` Ingo Brueckl
2009-08-20 13:47 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-08-20 14:59 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-08-19 18:35 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-19 19:21 ` Ingo Brueckl
2009-08-20 7:33 ` Andreas Ericsson
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