> What would be really nice is some sort of "pseudo-commit stack" whereby you can do this workflow, but every mini-commit goes into a stack that you can unwind

> What would be really nice is some sort of "pseudo-commit stack" whereby you can do this workflow, but every mini-commit goes into a stack that you can unwind to whatever point you want if it turns out that you've been going down a blind alley. Mercurial patch queue is pretty much that. You can also use temporary commit and phases to ensure they are not visible from outside your local repository. I have never really understood why git introduces all this weird concepts (staging, stash) for what are just temporary commits in the end.