Re: Data Integrity & un-Commited Branches

["Brian Scott Dobrovodsky" <brian@pontech.com>]

> My point is just that some people actually assume that work done
> while having one branch checked out is related to that branch and
> that branch alone and that switching a branch should put that work
> on hold.  Unfortunately for me some of these people at day-job have
> also just assumed Git can read their mind and forget to switch
> branches at the proper times, resulting in unrelated work mashed
> together for days straight (and criss-crossed merge to hell and back)
> before they call me and say "MAKEITWORKNOW".
> </rant>

As I have learned over the years, assumptions can be fatal. I can not
use something until I wrap my head around it and test it. Especially
for managing something in production! So far, this has been the only
problem/mis-understanding.

> It isn't unreasonable to want Git to save uncommitted work for the
> current branch and then you switch to another, ending up with a
> clean working directory when you finally get there.  Today we have
> git-stash to help you with this, but I'm thinking maybe we want to
> connect git-checkout with it?

That would be great as a default action when using checkout!
+Switching branches without having to commit improves work flow.
+Fewer commits = cleaner logs.
+More Intuitive!

I am currently using git-1.5.1.6, which apparently does not have
git-stash. I will upgrade and check it out.

Cheers,
-- 
Brian Scott Dobrovodsky