Git command line equivalent of GitHub app's magic stashing?

Question

According to the GitHup app documentation, "when you switch branches, GitHub [for Mac] performs magic stashing" (e.g., see the end of this page).

Does anyone know the git command line equivalent of this "magic stashing"?

Answer 1

Suppose you are working on the branch current-branch. Basically, what happens in Git-terms:

git stash
git checkout other-branch

Then, when you checkout current-branch again. The following happens

git stash pop

The git stash stores the uncommitted changes in the working directory. When you return the branch, a git stash pop is used to grab the uncommitted changes from the stash and place them on top of the current-branch