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From: Holger Hellmuth <hellmuth@ira.uka.de>
Subject: Re: How can I do an automatic stash when doing a checkout?
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:24:58 +0100
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On 18.12.2011 16:10, DeMarcus wrote:
>> You probably don't want to use stash. Just commit whatever partial work
>> you've done.
>>
>
> It feels strange doing a commit of partial work. Some of the files may
> not even be supposed to be checked in.

You have heard of "git commit --amend" ? Makes partial commits really 
easy to work with.