I find myself using stashes a fair amount. - Jonathan Le Plastrier

Interesting. I use diff output if I need to stop working on one feature, fix something else, and then get back to work on the original issue. It's an imperfect approach as it does not record metadata changes (delete/remove/move). Looks like subversion 1.5 added named changelists to help support this, but you can't 'stash' a changelist, and it's not really a proper analogue. - landonf@bikemonkey.org

Speed, and hunk by hunk checkins. - Robin Barooah

Oh the hunk by hunk thing I use time to time as well. - Jonathan Le Plastrier

Hunk by hunk? - landonf@bikemonkey.org

I also sometimes clone a repo locally for experimentation rather than branching. - Robin Barooah

Cool, thanks - landonf@bikemonkey.org

git-add --interactive is the hunk by hunk thing. - Jonathan Le Plastrier

I use the command line for most for most git functions, but gitx is good for the hunk-by-hunk commits. - Robin Barooah

of course the most important benefit is that it makes us feel cool: http://www.unethicalblogger.com/posts... - Robin Barooah