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Re: Usability of git stash

From
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date
Oct 20, 2008, 09:36 UTC
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Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> writes:
> I, for example, have a stash in which some "valgrind ..." string is
> prepended to some lines in some test scripts.  I apply the stash on
> different branches and after testing I reset the file (or checkout -f
> another branch).  I never really want to commit these changes.

I'd just use an appropriate patch file kept around in a parent dir or something... :-)

-Miles
-- 
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at
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