How to keep uncommitted work in a git clone

[Ryan Schmidt]

With Subversion, I was accustomed to keeping changes in my working copy that I was not ready to commit yet.

Git doesn't let me do that. It complains and tells me to git stash and later git stash pop.

Well, I tried that. I git stashed, then made changes to curl and committed them, and later when I tried to git stash pop, my other changes that I had in my git clone were not restored. I have no idea where they are now.

I can get these particular changes back from my old Subversion working copy, but I don't understand how I'm meant to work with git when I have changes that I'm not ready to commit yet, yet there are other changes I need to make and commit elsewhere within that same clone.