Hi, On Mon, 29 May 2006, Martin Waitz wrote: > Sometimes it is neccessary to have some local modifications in the tree > in order to test it and work with it. Doesn't $ git-update-index $(git-ls-files --modified) $ git-checkout -b tempBranch $ git-commit -m "to test" work? It also avoids totally bogus parents (if I read your patch correctly, you take the current HEAD as the true parent, but record the current HEAD of the other branch as parent nevertheless). Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html