The only use casei can think of is not knowing how easy branching and merging is with git. Or someone coming from svn thinking branches take up a lot of disk sp

The only use casei can think of is not knowing how easy branching and merging is with git. Or someone coming from svn thinking branches take up a lot of disk space and time. Stashes are meant to be local. Its pretty easy to turn one into a branch too if you feel you should make a stash available over the net.