I would, except git stash doesn't do what you expect if you have staged and unstaged changes in the same file.
See this question for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13780700/how-can-i-run-gi...
See this question for more details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13780700/how-can-i-run-gi...
worth noting here is that stash behaviour has improved a lot in more recent versions, e.g. stash pop can merge with your working tree now, whereas a while back it would just fail to apply and you'd be stuck having to do a patch and apply instead.
i think the workflow i outlined is intended to work correctly and eventually will for all cases rather than just the majority. hopefully that doesn't scare people away.
out of interest do you know of any other way to do a similar kind of thing with any other tool? i find having to deal with these edge cases still way better than the alternative of having no staging area and only being able to work on 1 thing at a time personally.