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INDEXCOMMIT=`echo '' | git commit-tree $INDEXTREE -p HEAD` # create a commit with only the stuff in staging Unfortunately, git doesn't offer a git stash -only-index or similar, so I whipped up a script to do this. That is, to stage some changes, and then stash only those staged changes. I often find it more intuitive to do the inverse of approach.

#GIT STASH APPLY VS POP UPDATE#

Update () - I've rewritten the script a bit, to better handle the case of conflicts, which should now be presented as unmerged conflicts rather than. git checkout - afile # reset the file to the HEAD content, before any local modificationsĪt the end of that rather cumbersome process, you will have only one or several files stashed.git stash pop # re-apply all your files modifications.git stash # this time, only the files you want are stashed.(Actually, eleotlecram proposes an interesting alternative)

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If -patch doesn't work, a manual process might:įor one or several files, an intermediate solution would be to:

#GIT STASH APPLY VS POP FULL#

However that will save the full index (which may not be what you want since it might include other files already indexed), and a partial worktree (which could look like the one you want to stash). The selected changes are then rolled back from your worktree. The stash entry is constructed such that its index state is the same as the index state of your repository, and its worktree contains only the changes you selected interactively. With -patch, you can interactively select hunks from in the diff between HEAD and the working tree to be stashed. Yet, git stash save -patch could allows you to achieve the partial stashing you are after: (Original answer June 2010: manual stash) In order to get to the original state - which is a clear staging area and with only some select un-staged modifications, one could softly reset the index to get (without committing anything like you - bukzor - did). You should ' git reset -soft' after such a stash to get your clear staging back: Go see and upvote his answer, which should be the official one (instead of mine).Ībout that option, chhh points out an alternative workflow in the comments:

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This (the stash -patch original solution) is nice, but often I've modified a lot of files so using patch is annoyingīukzor's answer (upvoted, November 2011) suggests a more practical solution, based on The original answer (below, June 2010) was about manually selecting what you want to stash. The test case for this feature shows a few more options off: test_expect_success 'stash with multiple pathspec arguments' ' Simplified example: git stash push path/to/file See ' Stash changes to specific files' for more. When pathspec is given to ' git stash push', the new stash records the modified states only for the files that match the pathspec Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.Since Git 2.13 (Q2 2017), you can stash individual files, with git stash push: git stash push For further reading on conquering fears, here is a favorite quote of mine, “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Hopefully you, too, can now add git stash to the list of fears you’ve conquered!įor further reading on stashing, take a look at the git stash docs.

Some of these have flags which make them more convenient, including: -m message, -p patch, -u include untracked files, -k keep staged changes staged.

These default to the most recent item on the stash, to reference another one use where you can determine the index from git stash list.

git stash drop removes changes from the stash.

git stash apply access changes on the stash.

git stash list shows what’s on the stash.

git stash operates on a LIFO stack of sets of changes.

git stash push (equivalent to git stash when used with no arguments) will push any local changes onto the stash and leave a clean working directory.ĭropped (d6a804a40c0b477d8e3be27939310ff677f45670 ) In summary.

Stashes are more easily understood as a basic last in, first out stack. You can play around with any git repo you have, or clone this hello world one locally to work in a complete sandbox! Stacks Meta-note: this post will be easiest to follow along if you open up a terminal and play around with git stash as you’re reading! The lack of syntax highlighting makes it a little tricky to see git additions / deletions.

On the most basic level, git stash is one way to store in progress work in git for subsequent access, leaving behind a clean working directory. Let me backtrack a minute! I haven’t yet explained what git stash even does. It just usually feels like there’s a chance I’ll just lose all of my in progress work to the depths of stashes and never be able to get the right incantation of git commands to reincarnate my code. It was only when I recently heard someone else say, “git stash is scary” that I realized it was top of my list of fears too.

Git stash apply vs pop