GIT - Compile and Test Staging Area

Question

I am using GIT and I am working on 2 tasks at the same time. Task 1 and Task2. Now I want to push to the server Task1. So I commit all related files of Task 1 (T1) to the staging area.

My Staging area its ready to be pushed to the server, but before doing this, I consider it would be safe to check if my staging area its compiling and passing the tests.

How can I get a working dir with the staging area only changes in order to compile it and run the automated tests?

Note I dont want to run tests of the working directory, only of the staging area...Because working dir has changes related from T1 and T2.

Answer 1

You could git stash save to save all of your non-related changes into a stash, run your tests, then restore the non-related changes with git stash pop. (If it were me, I would first read man git-stash to ensure I got all of the steps in the right order.)

Answer 2

This sounds to me like you should be using git branches. Each of your tasks would be developed on a separate branch and you can push one before the other, and merge up from the first completed branch (task) to the second.

See here for more details.