web commit by http://roktas.myopenid.com/: thoughts on using git-stash

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@@ -137,6 +137,117 @@ for more details), so I had to invent an ugly hack just for the purpose.
 > it seems to me you could just git-stash them now that git-stash exists.
 > I think it didn't when you first added the git support.. --[[Joey]]
 
+
+>> Yes,  git-stash had not existed before.  What about sth like below?  It
+>> seems to work (I haven't given much thought on the specific implementation
+details).  --[[roktas]]
+
+>>         # create test files
+>>         cd /tmp
+>>         seq 6 >page
+>>         cat page
+>>         1
+>>         2
+>>         3
+>>         4
+>>         5
+>>         6
+>>         sed -e 's/2/2ME/' page >page.me # my changes
+>>         cat page
+>>         1
+>>         2ME
+>>         3
+>>         4
+>>         5
+>>         6
+>>         sed -e 's/5/5SOMEONE/' page >page.someone # someone's changes
+>>         cat page
+>>         1
+>>         2
+>>         3
+>>         4
+>>         5SOMEONE
+>>         6
+>>
+>>         # create a test repository
+>>         mkdir t
+>>         cd t
+>>         cp ../page .
+>>         git init
+>>         git add .
+>>         git commit -m init
+>>
+>>         # save the current HEAD
+>>         ME=$(git rev-list HEAD -- page)
+>>         $EDITOR page # assume that I'm starting to edit page via web
+>>
+>>         # simulates someone's concurrent commit
+>>         cp ../page.someone page
+>>         git commit -m someone -- page
+>>
+>>         # My editing session ended, the resulting content is in page.me
+>>         cp ../page.me page
+>>         cat page
+>>         1
+>>         2ME
+>>         3
+>>         4
+>>         5
+>>         6
+>>
+>>         # let's start to save my uncommitted changes
+>>         git stash clear
+>>         git stash save "changes by me"
+>>         # we've reached a clean state
+>>         cat page
+>>         1
+>>         2
+>>         3
+>>         4
+>>         5SOMEONE
+>>         6
+>>
+>>         # roll-back to the $ME state
+>>         git reset --soft $ME
+>>         # now, the file is marked as modified
+>>         git stash save "changes by someone"
+>>
+>>         # now, we're at the $ME state
+>>         cat page
+>>         1
+>>         2
+>>         3
+>>         4
+>>         5
+>>         6
+>>         git stash list
+>>         stash@{0}: On master: changes by someone
+>>         stash@{1}: On master: changes by me
+>>
+>>         # first apply my changes
+>>         git stash apply stash@{1}
+>>         cat page
+>>         1
+>>         2ME
+>>         3
+>>         4
+>>         5
+>>         6
+>>         # ... and commit
+>>         git commit -m me -- page
+>>
+>>         # apply someone's changes
+>>         git stash apply stash@{0}
+>>         cat page
+>>         1
+>>         2ME
+>>         3
+>>         4
+>>         5SOMEONE
+>>         6
+>>         # ... and commit
+>>         git commit -m me+someone -- page
+
 By design, Git backend uses a "master-clone" repository pair approach in contrast
 to the single repository approach (here, _clone_ may be considered as the working
 copy of a fictious web user).  Even though a single repository implementation is