Git Stash

We use git stash to store our changes when they are not ready to be committed and we need to change to a different branch.

• Stash:

  git stash save
  # or
  git stash
  # or with a message
  git stash save "this is a message to display on the list"

• Apply stash to keep working on it:

  git stash apply
  # or apply a specific one from out stack
  git stash apply stash@{3}

• Every time we save a stash it gets stacked so by using list we can see all our stashes.

  git stash list
  # or for more information (log methods)
  git stash list --stat

• To clean our stack we need to manually remove them:

  # drop top stash
  git stash drop
  # or
  git stash drop <name>
  # to clear all history we can use
  git stash clear

• Apply and drop on one command:

  git stash pop

• If we meet conflicts we need to either reset or commit our changes.

• Conflicts through pop will not drop a stash afterwards.

Git Stash sample workflow

1. Modify a file
2. Stage file
3. Stash it
4. View our stash list
5. Confirm no pending changes through status
6. Apply with pop
7. View list to confirm changes

# Modify edit_this_file.rb file
git add .

git stash save "Saving changes from edit this file"

git stash list
git status

git stash pop
git stash list
git status