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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

  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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