Re: How to track history of personal changes in a repository?

From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 29, 2019, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CABPp-BE0ij8zF22xbvjbcq3vG-VwWjUmjNo45Lsm0BEnH=iZ-A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAEV-cEryZZarfz5SQsRphBXeYMPJW7tdSfY8NYnzb_-ra-pGHw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 7:34 AM Matthew McClure <matt@continuousdelta.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to track history of personal changes in a repository. I'd
> like to protect against accidentally pushing the changes to a remote branch. I
> imagine this working a little like `git ignore`, and a little like a separate
> branch. It might be like a personal sub-branch that is ignored by `git
> push`. Or it might be like a history of the work tree that runs parallel to the
> reflog and to the history of any given branch.
>
> Does something like this exist in Git or a complementary tool?
>
> I found `git update-index --skip-worktree`. I imagine it might be relevant in
> some kind of workflow where I can maintain a personal-worktree branch.
>
> Does any of you have a personal workflow that addresses similar concerns?

Perhaps put all the changes in a specific branch and run:
  git config branch.${personalBranchName}.pushRemote
Do.Not.Push.Changes.From.This.Branch
?  (And make sure that push.default is not set to 'matching'.)