[jayd16]

Git should really steal the only thing I like about perforce, many uncommited change lists. It should be an easy workflow change to add 'named stages' along side the default stage. That way you can just leave changes in a different stage, tracked but uncommitted.

[dingnuts]

Unless I have misunderstood your feature request, that feature exists, and it's called "worktrees"

Worktrees allow you to have multiple branches open potentially with dirty state on any or all of them

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

[jayd16]

No I don't think that is a similar feature. It looks like worktrees are put on different paths and by default do not operate on the same commit.

My feature request is about having n stages instead of one so uncommitted work can be organized better while staying in the usual working copy.

How would I accomplish this with worktrees?

[postmodest]

Is that different to git stash?

[jayd16]

Yeah, they stay in the working set but files are marked for different commits. Ideally git could do it at the line level instead of by file.