I'm not sure I see how you could use `git stash` to accomplish the same thing. Running `git stash && git stash pop` is almost a no-op, so you don't get the benefits described above. Am I missing something?
I thought you could pull individual files out a stash, but it seems I was wrong about that. But it's not hard to imagine a variation of git stash that allowed you to select individual files from a stash to pull back into your working directory.
