Git: Pull immature work without dirty commit

Yesterday I wanted to continue ongoing work I started on a different machine. But the code was not clean when I left, so I didn’t commit.

To prevent a dirty commit I temporarily committed my work on the remote machine, then pulled that commit directly from there and afterwards discarded the temporary commit on the other machine. No bad commit left:

On the remote machine

1. $ git add .
2. $ git commit -m "Temporary commit"

On the local machine

1. $ git checkout -b my_branch
2. $ git pull ssh://user@remote.host:port/path/to/repository my_branch
3. $ git reset 'HEAD^'

A final git reset 'HEAD^' on the remote makes the commit to have never happened.

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