How to work simultaneously on a few branches

Question

This is a follow-up on this question on creating branches.

It strikes me as odd that I would still work on one repository because the files on my local machine will be a

Answer 1

I suggest my solution via small script https://web.archive.org/web/20141114201917/http://www.redhotchilipython.com/en_posts/2013-02-01-clone-per-feature.html

While git stash tools are nice, I find having multiple clones much better. You can run tests in one branch, while work on other. Or you don't even have to stop debugger, close editor, clean tempfiles or something else.