Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!)

As a more practical question, how do I do this workflow illustrated below?

It's sort of similar to the workflow that "git stash" is trying to support,
except that I have a bunch of commits instead of a bunch of
uncommitted-changes.

I pull a repository that looks like this:

.  a<--b<--c  <--master

Then I hack away to this, and then throw my own branch on the end, along with
master:

.  a<--b<--c<--d<--e<--f<--g  <--master (jeske)
.                             <--feature1 (jeske)

While the server looks like this:

.  a<--b<--c<--1<--2<--3  <--master (server)

I want to get my repository to look something like this:

.  a<--b<--c<--1<--2<--3  <--master (jeske)
.           \
.            d<--e<--f<--g   <-- feature1 (jeske)

So I can then do this:

.  a<--b<--c<--1<--2<--3<--zz  <--master (jeske)
.           \
.            d<--e<--f<--g   <-- feature1 (jeske)

..and then push zz onto the server after 3.

..and I want to do it with safe commands that won't leave any dangling
references. (say if I forget to put the feature1 branch on)

How do I do that?