How to create, list and delete Stash

In the current branch we have done some changes in the file and we havent committed those changes, now you want to work on some other idea, but you want to save this changes for future purpose, we can save this chnages locally using stash.

Run “git stash” and the current branch will become clean and all the chnages what you amd will be stored locally in temporary space.

git stash or git stash save (By default if we run git stash it will append the “save” keyword to it )

git stash

git stash save

Create a stash with message

git stash save "message"

To list the stash

git stash list

To apply the stash to the current branch

git stash apply

To apply the specific stash from stash list

git stash apply stash@{index_no}

To stash both tracked and untracked files

If we do some chnages in the tracked file and also in one untacked file (new file). If we run git stash now, it will only stash the tracked files, it wont stash the untracked files

git stash -u                --> to stash both tracked and untracked files

Other Option : we can add the untracked file and run “git stash” also

To do git stash apply and git stash drop in a single command

git stash pop

To know the file changes in stash

git stash show stash@{index_no}

latest stash will be assigned with index no ‘0’

To take stash changes from one branch to another new branch

First stash the files/changes in the current branch

Then exceute the following command, it will automatically create a new branch, switch to that branch and take all the changes from the top stash to that branch and that stash will be dropped from the stash list

git stash branch new_branch_name

To take specific stash changes from one branch to another new branch

git stash branch new_branch_name stash@{index_no}

To drop the latest stash from list

git stash drop

To drop the stash from stash list using stash index number

git stash drop stash@{0}

To drop all stashes from list in one shot

git stash clear