Fosstodon @fosstodon

Recent searches

Search options

Only available when logged in.

**Christine Lemmer-Webber** @cwebber@social.coop · Jan 15

Jan 15

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

just accruing git stashes in every repo I work on forever

bignose @bignose@fosstodon.org

After learning #Magit's "spin-off branch" feature, I no longer accumulate (and subsequently forget about) stashes.

https://emacsair.me/2017/09/01/magit-walk-through/#branching

These are a much better option for "ah, I'll need more work on these commits, let me put them aside for now".

@cwebber #Emacs

emacsair.meEmacsair! A walk through the Magit interfaceBlog of Jonas Bernoulli

Jan 15, 2025, 09:25 PM·

8boosts·20favorites

**Jonathan Frederickson** @jfred@jawns.club · Jan 15

Jan 15

Jonathan Frederickson @jfred@jawns.club

@bignose @cwebber I use this too, but I mainly end up using stashes when I have partial work that I don't feel like is worth committing yet. So it doesn't completely replace the need for stashes, right?

**bignose** @bignose · Jan 15 *

Jan 15 *

bignose @bignose

Right @jfred, stashes are not the problem, and are still quite useful.

What this does is give a better option for "I need this (series of) commits to continue, but I now realise it's more work than I expected, so a branch is better and I want that to happen right now, get saved as a branch that knows its ancestry, so I can switch to work on something else".

@cwebber