Fossil, Git, and possibly other revision control systems share the idea of a stash. Pro Git has a section on stashing. It says, in part: Stashing takes the dirty state of your working directory — that is, your modified tracked files and staged changes — and saves it on a stack of unfinished changes that you can reapply at any time More @Wikipedia
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