Re: Better cooperation between checkouts and stashing

Markus Elfring [off-list ref] writes:

How are the chances to make unfinished and uncommitted content updates sticky
for a particular branch (or a selection of branches) so that changes will not be
mixed more as it will be really required for an editing task?

Traditionally the right way to do this has been to make a temporary commit
on the branch, i.e.

    $ git checkout topic
    work work work... yikes, I cannot get this working
    $ git commit -a -m 'wip: does not work yet' ;# temporary commit
    $ git checkout other-topic
    work work work....
    $ git checkout topic
    $ git reset --soft HEAD^ ;# drop the temporary commit

I didn't re-read our documentation set for some time, but don't we teach
this anymore?