> "commit your halfway feature work/.../come back to the feature and amend/squash/soft reset"
...this is just by-hand stashing with alternative commands and extra "WIP" commit messages.
Which, uh, is admittedly an option. One that won't easily preserve your index independently from your working tree - awkward if you're in the middle of painstakingly separating out changes to add to the next commit with `git add -p` - and one that risks "WIP" commits ending up in your tree... but it is an option.
...this is just by-hand stashing with alternative commands and extra "WIP" commit messages.
Which, uh, is admittedly an option. One that won't easily preserve your index independently from your working tree - awkward if you're in the middle of painstakingly separating out changes to add to the next commit with `git add -p` - and one that risks "WIP" commits ending up in your tree... but it is an option.