[dahart]

Fwiw, stash can get you into trouble more easily than commit. It’s no more typing to commit or branch, so I recommend preferring those to stash when it makes sense, or when you’re playing with changes you don’t want to lose. Stash is handy for a bunch of things, so use it by all means, just remember that there’s often an equivalent way that is just as easy and much safer.

The git stash man page talks about this: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-stash

“If you mistakenly drop or clear stash entries, they cannot be recovered through the normal safety mechanisms.”

One of the best things about git is how big the safety net is, as long as you tell git about your changes. Almost any mistake can be fixed, so why use features that aren’t sitting over the safety net?