From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: question concerning branches Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:37:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20090820173714.GD7076@mit.edu> References: <4a8c51f5@wupperonline.de> <20090819203917.GH27206@mit.edu> <200908192257.23347.jnareb@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Ingo Brueckl , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jakub Narebski X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Aug 20 19:37:33 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MeBZq-0001sw-4m for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:37:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754888AbZHTRhU (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:37:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754585AbZHTRhU (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:37:20 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:58897 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751684AbZHTRhT (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:37:19 -0400 Received: from root (helo=closure.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtp (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1MeBZc-00072N-Px; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:37:16 -0400 Received: from tytso by closure.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MeBZa-0002yn-DA; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:37:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200908192257.23347.jnareb@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@mit.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:57:21PM +0200, Jakub Narebski wrote: > Errr... you are aware that you can use "git stash save " (i.e. > specify commit message for stash; well, the subject), don't you? I wasn't aware, but usually I like leaving more notes to myself than just a single lines' worth of state. I should probably take another look at "git stash" and see if it's a handy tool for me to use; but so far I've been happy enough with "git checkout -b topic-name; git commit". - Ted