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

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Oct 18, 2007, 11:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20071018110726.GA3936@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <4717377E.1010604@viscovery.net>

On 2007-10-18 12:37:50 +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> Jan Wielemaker schrieb:
>
> > I've somewhere seen it in a mail, but I can't find it anymore. I
> > have a bare central (public) repository and clones on various
> > machines I work on. We all know it, you're right in the middle of
> > something and it is really time to go home. You want to pick up
> > your work at home, but without pushing to the shared repository.
> >
> > I'm sure GIT can do this elegantly, but I'm not yet sure how. I
> > guess Ideally I want "git stash" at work, transfer the stashed
> > changes to my other machine and apply them. How do I do that?
>
> One way is to use a bundle:

Another way is to push the unfinished changes to a temp branch, either at the same central repository if it's acceptable for people to have temp branches there, or at another repository where temp branches _are_ permitted. All you need to set up a private repository for yourself is an ssh account somewhere. Or you could store the repository on an usb stick.

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