[spacechild1]

If I really want to make sure, I do:

1. git stash

2. build + test

3. commit

4. git stash pop

> Some projects might not have a CI at all.

Well, then you have bigger problems. Without CI, how would you even know if your projects compiles on other platforms?

[qsera]

When I really want to do your workflow, here is what I do. Add all the debugging print statements and commit them separately in another branch. When I want to include the debug statements, I just cherry-pick the commit with those things.

This way I remove the overhead of doing a staging before every damn commit and still retain the ability to pull in debugging changes whenever I want them.

>Without CI, how would you even know if your projects compiles on other platforms?

Not everything need to be cross platform! And not everything need CI..

[spacechild1]

This sounds more complicated overall. Also, I would still need the staging area to only commit the debug statements.

As I said, I like to work on several things in parallel and I don't want to switch branches back and forth. That's just my workflow for my own projects and apparently I'm not alone.