diff --git a/artemis/experiments/experiment_record_view.py b/artemis/experiments/experiment_record_view.py
index 2afbf2da..515e8bf2 100644
--- a/artemis/experiments/experiment_record_view.py
+++ b/artemis/experiments/experiment_record_view.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 from artemis.general.tables import build_table
 from six import string_types
 
-
 def get_record_result_string(record, func='deep', truncate_to = None, array_print_threshold=8, array_float_format='.3g', oneline=False):
     """
     Get a string representing the result of the experiment.
diff --git a/artemis/experiments/git_tools.py b/artemis/experiments/git_tools.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cea470ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artemis/experiments/git_tools.py
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+
+from git import Git
+
+import git
+from git import Repo
+from sys import argv
+import sys
+from git.exc import InvalidGitRepositoryError
+
+
+def get_git_repo_for_current_run():
+    path = sys.argv[0]
+    git_repo = git.Repo(path, search_parent_directories=True)
+    git_root = git_repo.git.rev_parse("--show-toplevel")
+    print git_root
+
+
+def save_working_copy(message = 'autocommit'):
+
+    g = Git(get_git_repo_for_current_run())
+
+    g.stash()
+
+    g.checkout('-B', 'artemis-experiments')
+
+    g.stash('apply')
+
+    unmerged_files = g.diff('--name-only', '--diff-filter=U')
+
+    print unmerged_files
+
+    g.commit('-am', message)
+
+    g.checkout('-')
+
+    g.stash('pop')
+
+
+print 'ff'
+
+
+save_working_copy()