On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 7:34 AM Matthew McClure
<m...@continuousdelta.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a way to track history of personal changes in a repository.
> I'd
> like to protect against accidentally pushing the changes to a remote branch. I
> imagine this working a little like `git ignore`, and a little like a separate
> branch. It might be like a personal sub-branch that is ignored by `git
> push`. Or it might be like a history of the work tree that runs parallel to
> the
> reflog and to the history of any given branch.
>
> Does something like this exist in Git or a complementary tool?
>
> I found `git update-index --skip-worktree`. I imagine it might be relevant in
> some kind of workflow where I can maintain a personal-worktree branch.
>
> Does any of you have a personal workflow that addresses similar concerns?
Perhaps put all the changes in a specific branch and run:
git config branch.${personalBranchName}.pushRemote
Do.Not.Push.Changes.From.This.Branch
? (And make sure that push.default is not set to 'matching'.)
