I used to use stash before discovering Kenneth Reitz's legit ( http://www.git-legit.org/ http://www.git-legit.org/ ). With legit, git switch <branchname> autom

I used to use stash before discovering Kenneth Reitz's legit ( http://www.git-legit.org/ http://www.git-legit.org/ ). With legit, git switch <branchname> automatically stashes and restores uncommitted changes before and after switching branches. One less command to type and sightly higher level.