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From: Fabio Augusto Dal Castel <fdcastel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] New command: 'git snapshot'.
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:40:34 -0200
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Brandon,

> If stashes were per-branch, then it would probably
> be pretty easy to build this snapshot tool on top of it.

Or the other way around <g>.

Remember that 'stash' is actually TWO commands in one:
* Save current state
* Reset to HEAD

My primary reason to use snapshots is to AVOID the second step.