Re: [FAQ?] Rationale for git's way to manage the index

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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:06:49AM CEST, Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> Which is why I'm considering shelving support (of some kind) in
> git-gui...  but I'm probably not going to take away the current
> index view, nor am I going to take away the current hunk selection.
> 
> But I would like to make it easier for non-patching-editing gods
> (Linus) to pull hunks in from a shelf, test them, and commit them.
> 
> Said shelf probably would be another branch, much as Linus' nicely
> documented workflow does...

FWIW, Cogito supports shelving of uncommitted changes when switching a
branch (so that they are not retained through the switch but restored
when you switch back to the original branch) by committing the local
changes to refs/shelves/HEADNAME.

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