-implement (for me, at least). Being a fairly fresh code base it has some
-bugs. It also has some drawbacks (especially wrt merge which was the hard
-part). GIT doesn't have a similar functionality like 'svn merge -rOLD:NEW
-FILE' (please see the relevant comment in mergepast for more details), so I
-had to invent an ugly hack just for the purpose.
+implement (for me, at least). It has some drawbacks (especially wrt merge
+which was the hard part). GIT doesn't have a similar functionality like
+'svn merge -rOLD:NEW FILE' (please see the relevant comment in `_merge_past`
+for more details), so I had to invent an ugly hack just for the purpose.
+
+> I was looking at this, and WRT the problem of uncommitted local changes,
+> 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