Checklist: Uncommitted & unpushed changes before switching machines

The 3 Things That Always Get Left Behind

When moving from your office Mac to your laptop, or shutting down for the weekend, three things commonly get stranded:

1. Uncommitted file modifications: Edits in progress that were never staged or committed.
2. Unpushed local branches: You ran git commit, but forgot to run git push.
3. Forgotten stashes: Quick stashes (git stash) created before a pull or branch switch that you meant to pop later.

The Manual Terminal Audit

In each project, check the working tree, then unpushed commits, then stashes:

git status -s
git log @{u}..HEAD --oneline
git stash list

Doing this manually across 15 projects is tedious and error-prone.

The easier way: GitMon

With GitMon in your menu bar, a quick glance shows a badge count of how many repos have pending work. Open the popover to see the dirty files, unpushed branches, and stashes in one unified list.

Related Guides

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