question concerning branches

Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] writes:

You finish old work (or stash it away), _then_ you begin new work.

Ok, this helps me a little bit to understand.

The branches aren't designed to split my work, but rather something to
collect the different parts of my work.

But as software development often is something where you are coding on
several issues at the same time which can't be committed immediately, it
sounds that 'stash' is the developer's best friend.

Ingo