Re: Howto request: going home in the middle of something? v2009

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

2009/4/21 Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>:
> Hello,
> I've developed a work habit of keeping my source code repository on a
> USB stick and carrying that back and forth with me between work and
> home.  (I typically have small, branchless, single-developer
> projects.)  When I arrive at the other machine, I do
>
> $ git pull
> (code, commit, code, commit, etc...)
> $ git push
>
> Occasionally at the end of the day (if I'm at work) or at the end of
> the night (if I'm at home), I'm in the middle of something that I want
> to continue, and I end up making a "work-in-progress" commit
>
> $ git commit -a "WIP"
>
> just so I can pull that in the next day/evening and continue where I
> left off.  But that leaves a bunch of "WIP" commits in my history.  I
> started looking around for a better way to do this, and came across a
> 2007 discussion (at
> http://kerneltrap.org/index.php?q=mailarchive/git/2007/10/18/347020/thread)
> where the OP really wanted (as do I) do be able to do something like
> this:
>
> $ git stash
> $ git push
> $ git stash-push
> (travel to other site)
> $ git pull
> $ git stash-pull
> $ git stash apply
> (continue coding and committing as before)
>
> There were a number of different suggestions, such as:
>
> $ git commit -b temp -a -m "Hold for transport home"
>
> Then when I get home I do this:
>
> $ git fetch work
> $ git merge work/temp
> $ git reset HEAD^
>  # code code code
> $ git commit -b temp -a -m "Hold for transport to work"
>
> When I'm finished at home and want to carry on at work:
>
> $ git fetch --force home
> $ git merge home/temp
> $ git reset HEAD^
>  # start coding for the day
>
> ... or using git-bundle
>
> That discussion dates back to 2007.  Is there a new, improved, 2009
> way of accomplishing this?
>
> --wpd

man git-stash? or you can just git reset --soft HEAD^ away your wip commit.

-- 
Mikael Magnusson