[couchand]

You can do the same with git stash, but it's also inadvisable because of how easy it is to lose changes. My workflow in this case is to checkout a new branch and commit the work-in-progress there, then switch back to the previous branch to check the commit. I've seen numerous pre-push scripts that do exactly that.

I wish git didn't use the disk at all! It gets in the way of parallelizing work. For instance, I'd love to be able to make a bunch of trial commits, then in parallel verify that none of them breaks the build. Or while a build/test loop is happening on one branch, switch to another to continue working.