I like his idea of having an alias to commit to when he wants to save off work. If you combine that with a checkout (co) alias which saves the current branch a

I like his idea of having an alias to commit to when he wants to save off work. If you combine that with a checkout (co) alias which saves the current branch and checks the latest commit message of the destination branch and 'reset HEAD~1 --mixed's when it was 'SAVEPOINT' and functionally you have regular git that allows you to move around between branches without committing first.