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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarification for the command "git checkout <branch>"
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:11:05 +0100
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> You may want retry the command after recording the local changes
> (1) in a temporary commit on the current branch,

Can commits be consistently marked for intermediate use?
Can such "special" commits be easily found later on?


> or (2) by using "git stash".

Is this storage operation supported per branch?
Does a checkout look if any files were stashed away for the specified branch before?

Regards,
Markus