Re: How can I do an automatic stash when doing a checkout?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Dec 19, 2011, 22:24 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy5u8kxmu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <jcobbo$jab$1@dough.gmane.org>

DeMarcus <demarcus@hotmail.com> writes:

> ... I don't really like to go back rearranging. I prefer to keep things
> spread out at first and then inserted properly when it's time. But maybe
> I'm just unused to the git workflow.

That does not have to do much with "the" git workflow.

If you are a kind of person who likes to work on N things concurrently without ever making and recording mistakes but would rather keep unfinished work without committing until done, you would need to have them in your working trees. By definition you would need to use N working trees, each of which permanently checks out its own branch, instead of a single working tree where you checkout one of N branches at a time to work on.

That is also a perfectly fine git workflow that we support with the contributed script git-new-workdir.