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Often I'll be in the middle of something, with a dirty work tree, when it's time to leave for the day. Then I'll just commit everything with the subject WIP ("work-in-progress"). First thing the next morning I'll git-reset HEAD^ and continue where I left off.

Curious, what is the advantage of doing this? Why commit something locally just to reset it out the next morning?

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He explains here:

> Such commits rarely survive beyond the following morning, but if I didn't make them, I wouldn't be able to continue work from home if the mood took me to do that.

I think the underlying assumption here is that he commits and pushes these changes somewhere accessible from home and not taking it with him on his laptop or something. Otherwise there really isn't a good reason for committing it.

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