For one of my projects, the 'build process' requires that I use the git archive command (basically archive to .tar.gz without any git-related files/directories)

For one of my projects, the 'build process' requires that I use the git archive command (basically archive to .tar.gz without any git-related files/directories). git archive on its own is fine for final builds because it's based off of HEAD for the current branch, but if I want to test a build with working changes, I would either need to commit all the changes _or_ use git stash and then archive based on the state I just stashed. So in this case git stash works a lot better for a 'temporary' commit, kind of deal. It might not be optimal but I've found the process to work pretty well for this particular project's situation.