Re: Move git-stash from one machine (or working copy) to another

[David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>]

On Jan 21, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is there an easy way to move work in progress from one machine to  
>> another?
>>
>> One way to do it might be something like this:
>>
>> machine1$ git checkout -b movewip
>> machine1$ git add .
>> machine1$ git commit -m "Moving work in progress"
>> machine1$ git push origin movewip:movewip
>>
>> machine2$ git fetch origin movewip:movewip:
>> machine2$ git checkout movewip
>> machine2$ git reset HEAD^
>> machine2$ git stash
>> machine2$ git checkout master
>> machine2$ git stash pop
>>
>> # go through and delete movewip branches on machine1, machine2, and
>> the origin server
>>
>> Except for some possible typos, this seems like it would work, but
>> seems to be awfully clumsy.  Is there a more elegant way to  
>> accomplish
>> this?
>
> If your two machines can talk directly with each other (which seems  
> to be
> the case from your "take that with me (somehow) to machine2"), you  
> don't
> have to push and fetch through the origin.

This won't handle all cases, but it should do the trick 80%+ of the  
time.

% git diff > foo.patch

(on other machine)
% git apply foo.patch

-- 
         David