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Re: Move git-stash from one machine (or working copy) to another

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jan 21, 2011, 17:49 UTC
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Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com> writes:
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> Is there an easy way to move work in progress from one machine to another?
>
> One way to do it might be something like this:
>
> machine1$ git checkout -b movewip
> machine1$ git add .
> machine1$ git commit -m "Moving work in progress"
> machine1$ git push origin movewip:movewip
>
> machine2$ git fetch origin movewip:movewip:
> machine2$ git checkout movewip
> machine2$ git reset HEAD^
> machine2$ git stash
> machine2$ git checkout master
> machine2$ git stash pop
>
> # go through and delete movewip branches on machine1, machine2, and
> the origin server
>
> Except for some possible typos, this seems like it would work, but
> seems to be awfully clumsy.  Is there a more elegant way to accomplish
> this?

If your two machines can talk directly with each other (which seems to be the case from your "take that with me (somehow) to machine2"), you don't have to push and fetch through the origin.

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  1. Patrick DoyleJan 21, 2011
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2011
  3. David AguilarJan 23, 2011
  4. Matthieu MoyJan 23, 2011
  5. Andreas SchwabJan 23, 2011

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