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Often times I will "have to" commit WIP work to check out another branch (to test something, code review, urgent bug fix...). The other main option would be start but it isn't as organized as branches. I guess work trees would also work if they is your workflow.

But I would amend these WIP commits rather than just leaving them as they happen to occur.

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There’s always ‘stash’ too.

That is what I meant, typo + phone seems to have resulted in "start".

The problem for me is that stashes aren't associated with a branch and I find them very hard to manage. I end up just using stash for very temporary things (like moving code to a different branch). Once something has been stashed for more than 10min I basically forget it exists.

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