Re: [PATCH] Clarification for the command "git checkout <branch>"

From: Markus Elfring <markus.elfring@web.de>
Date: Mar 18, 2010, 10:11 UTC
Message-ID: <4BA1FC39.10300@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vaau6q18q.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

> 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

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