One place where the stash is really useful is pre-rebase. Unlike in merge, you need a clean worktree before you can rebase irrespective of whether or not those

One place where the stash is really useful is pre-rebase. Unlike in merge, you need a clean worktree before you can rebase irrespective of whether or not those worktree changes will be affected by the rebase. A very common workflow on a topic branch: $ git stash $ git rebase master $ git stash pop To automate this workflow, there is a topic called rr/rebase-autostash that introduces the configuration variable rebase.autostash which will automatically 'stash' and 'stash pop' for you. The topic is still cooking in git.git, and is due to hit `master` in a few days. If you want to know more, read about it from the `pu` branch of git.git. I've put up the most important commit message here [1] for convenience. [1]: http://artagnon.com/git-rebase.autostash http://artagnon.com/git-rebase.autostash