将所有更改提交到临时分支，同时在 master 上保持未提交

Question

I am wondering what is the correct approach in the following situation.

I am working on master branch locally and I have multiple uncommited changes that I don't want to commit to origin/master yet .

I would like to commit my current changes to some newly created origin/temporary branch (so someone else can quickly run the current stage of my workspace on his own) while keeping all the changes in local master as they are, to be able to commit them to origin/master later at some point.

I assume I have to use git stash in some order, but I am not sure...

Edit:

Some of you have suggested, that I can just merge temporary into master . This is not the case, as I'm not assuming that the temporary branch contains anything to be accepted nor anything valid. It's purpose is just to quickly show the current code stage that will change surely before it is good enough for commiting to master or to be properly reviewed.

This is the reason why I do not want to treat those changes as real changes later in the tree, they are just ugly.

Answer 1

Here is one possibility:

# from current master
git add .
git commit -m 'WIP: temporary commit'
git branch temporary
git reset --mixed HEAD~1

For an explanation, the above is first adding all files to the index, and making a commit on master . You ultimately don't want that commit there, but we'll come back to that later. From this point, we branch off a new branch temporary , without actually switching to that branch. Then, from master we do a mixed reset back one commit. This will leave your index empty, with all your original changes in the working directory. Note that the temporary commit is now not part of the master branch, but is the HEAD of the new temporary branch.