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

From: Markus Elfring <markus.elfring@web.de>
Date: Apr 1, 2010, 06:38 UTC
Message-ID: <4BB43F7C.8070003@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vd3ylv4oq.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

> In such a case, you may want retry the command after recording
> the local changes (1) in a temporary commit on the current branch,

Should corresponding work flow actions be also mentioned to clean up such "temporaries"?

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

Do we need a new feature "stash per branch" here?

Will an option be useful to specify that uncommitted changes can be overwritten by data from the branch switch?

Regards, Markus

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