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<h1>
git-stash(1) Manual Page
</h1>
<h2>NAME</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<p>git-stash -
Stash the changes in a dirty working directory away
</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="verseblock">
<pre class="content"><em>git stash</em> list [&lt;options&gt;]
<em>git stash</em> show [&lt;stash&gt;]
<em>git stash</em> drop [-q|--quiet] [&lt;stash&gt;]
<em>git stash</em> ( pop | apply ) [--index] [-q|--quiet] [&lt;stash&gt;]
<em>git stash</em> branch &lt;branchname&gt; [&lt;stash&gt;]
<em>git stash</em> [push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-q|--quiet]
[-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-m|--message &lt;message&gt;]
[--] [&lt;pathspec&gt;&#8230;]]
<em>git stash</em> clear
<em>git stash</em> create [&lt;message&gt;]
<em>git stash</em> store [-m|--message &lt;message&gt;] [-q|--quiet] &lt;commit&gt;</pre>
<div class="attribution">
</div></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Use <code>git stash</code> when you want to record the current state of the
working directory and the index, but want to go back to a clean
working directory. The command saves your local modifications away
and reverts the working directory to match the <code>HEAD</code> commit.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The modifications stashed away by this command can be listed with
<code>git stash list</code>, inspected with <code>git stash show</code>, and restored
(potentially on top of a different commit) with <code>git stash apply</code>.
Calling <code>git stash</code> without any arguments is equivalent to <code>git stash push</code>.
A stash is by default listed as "WIP on <em>branchname</em> &#8230;", but
you can give a more descriptive message on the command line when
you create one.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The latest stash you created is stored in <code>refs/stash</code>; older
stashes are found in the reflog of this reference and can be named using
the usual reflog syntax (e.g. <code>stash@{0}</code> is the most recently
created stash, <code>stash@{1}</code> is the one before it, <code>stash@{2.hours.ago}</code>
is also possible). Stashes may also be referenced by specifying just the
stash index (e.g. the integer <code>n</code> is equivalent to <code>stash@{n}</code>).</p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
push [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [-m|--message &lt;message&gt;] [--] [&lt;pathspec&gt;&#8230;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Save your local modifications to a new <em>stash entry</em> and roll them
back to HEAD (in the working tree and in the index).
The &lt;message&gt; part is optional and gives
the description along with the stashed state.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>For quickly making a snapshot, you can omit "push". In this mode,
non-option arguments are not allowed to prevent a misspelled
subcommand from making an unwanted stash entry. The two exceptions to this
are <code>stash -p</code> which acts as alias for <code>stash push -p</code> and pathspecs,
which are allowed after a double hyphen <code>--</code> for disambiguation.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>When pathspec is given to <em>git stash push</em>, the new stash entry records the
modified states only for the files that match the pathspec. The index
entries and working tree files are then rolled back to the state in
HEAD only for these files, too, leaving files that do not match the
pathspec intact.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If the <code>--keep-index</code> option is used, all changes already added to the
index are left intact.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If the <code>--include-untracked</code> option is used, all untracked files are also
stashed and then cleaned up with <code>git clean</code>, leaving the working directory
in a very clean state. If the <code>--all</code> option is used instead then the
ignored files are stashed and cleaned in addition to the untracked files.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>With <code>--patch</code>, you can interactively select hunks from the diff
between HEAD and the working tree to be stashed. 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. The selected changes are then rolled back
from your worktree. See the &#8220;Interactive Mode&#8221; section of
<a href="git-add.html">git-add(1)</a> to learn how to operate the <code>--patch</code> mode.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <code>--patch</code> option implies <code>--keep-index</code>. You can use
<code>--no-keep-index</code> to override this.</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
save [-p|--patch] [-k|--[no-]keep-index] [-u|--include-untracked] [-a|--all] [-q|--quiet] [&lt;message&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
This option is deprecated in favour of <em>git stash push</em>. It
differs from "stash push" in that it cannot take pathspecs,
and any non-option arguments form the message.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
list [&lt;options&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
List the stash entries that you currently have. Each <em>stash entry</em> is
listed with its name (e.g. <code>stash@{0}</code> is the latest entry, <code>stash@{1}</code> is
the one before, etc.), the name of the branch that was current when the
entry was made, and a short description of the commit the entry was
based on.
</p>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code>stash@{0}: WIP on submit: 6ebd0e2... Update git-stash documentation
stash@{1}: On master: 9cc0589... Add git-stash</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The command takes options applicable to the <em>git log</em>
command to control what is shown and how. See <a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a>.</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
show [&lt;stash&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Show the changes recorded in the stash entry as a diff between the
stashed contents and the commit back when the stash entry was first
created. When no <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> is given, it shows the latest one.
By default, the command shows the diffstat, but it will accept any
format known to <em>git diff</em> (e.g., <code>git stash show -p stash@{1}</code>
to view the second most recent entry in patch form).
You can use stash.showStat and/or stash.showPatch config variables
to change the default behavior.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
pop [--index] [-q|--quiet] [&lt;stash&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Remove a single stashed state from the stash list and apply it
on top of the current working tree state, i.e., do the inverse
operation of <code>git stash push</code>. The working directory must
match the index.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Applying the state can fail with conflicts; in this case, it is not
removed from the stash list. You need to resolve the conflicts by hand
and call <code>git stash drop</code> manually afterwards.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If the <code>--index</code> option is used, then tries to reinstate not only the working
tree&#8217;s changes, but also the index&#8217;s ones. However, this can fail, when you
have conflicts (which are stored in the index, where you therefore can no
longer apply the changes as they were originally).</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>When no <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> is given, <code>stash@{0}</code> is assumed, otherwise <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> must
be a reference of the form <code>stash@{&lt;revision&gt;}</code>.</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
apply [--index] [-q|--quiet] [&lt;stash&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Like <code>pop</code>, but do not remove the state from the stash list. Unlike <code>pop</code>,
<code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> may be any commit that looks like a commit created by
<code>stash push</code> or <code>stash create</code>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
branch &lt;branchname&gt; [&lt;stash&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Creates and checks out a new branch named <code>&lt;branchname&gt;</code> starting from
the commit at which the <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> was originally created, applies the
changes recorded in <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> to the new working tree and index.
If that succeeds, and <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> is a reference of the form
<code>stash@{&lt;revision&gt;}</code>, it then drops the <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code>. When no <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code>
is given, applies the latest one.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This is useful if the branch on which you ran <code>git stash push</code> has
changed enough that <code>git stash apply</code> fails due to conflicts. Since
the stash entry is applied on top of the commit that was HEAD at the
time <code>git stash</code> was run, it restores the originally stashed state
with no conflicts.</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
clear
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Remove all the stash entries. Note that those entries will then
be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover (see
<em>Examples</em> below for a possible strategy).
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
drop [-q|--quiet] [&lt;stash&gt;]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Remove a single stash entry from the list of stash entries.
When no <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> is given, it removes the latest one.
i.e. <code>stash@{0}</code>, otherwise <code>&lt;stash&gt;</code> must be a valid stash
log reference of the form <code>stash@{&lt;revision&gt;}</code>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
create
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Create a stash entry (which is a regular commit object) and
return its object name, without storing it anywhere in the ref
namespace.
This is intended to be useful for scripts. It is probably not
the command you want to use; see "push" above.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
store
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Store a given stash created via <em>git stash create</em> (which is a
dangling merge commit) in the stash ref, updating the stash
reflog. This is intended to be useful for scripts. It is
probably not the command you want to use; see "push" above.
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_discussion">DISCUSSION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>A stash entry is represented as a commit whose tree records the state
of the working directory, and its first parent is the commit at <code>HEAD</code>
when the entry was created. The tree of the second parent records the
state of the index when the entry is made, and it is made a child of
the <code>HEAD</code> commit. The ancestry graph looks like this:</p></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code> .----W
/ /
-----H----I</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>where <code>H</code> is the <code>HEAD</code> commit, <code>I</code> is a commit that records the state
of the index, and <code>W</code> is a commit that records the state of the working
tree.</p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_examples">EXAMPLES</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
Pulling into a dirty tree
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
When you are in the middle of something, you learn that there are
upstream changes that are possibly relevant to what you are
doing. When your local changes do not conflict with the changes in
the upstream, a simple <code>git pull</code> will let you move forward.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>However, there are cases in which your local changes do conflict with
the upstream changes, and <code>git pull</code> refuses to overwrite your
changes. In such a case, you can stash your changes away,
perform a pull, and then unstash, like this:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code>$ git pull
...
file foobar not up to date, cannot merge.
$ git stash
$ git pull
$ git stash pop</code></pre>
</div></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
Interrupted workflow
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
When you are in the middle of something, your boss comes in and
demands that you fix something immediately. Traditionally, you would
make a commit to a temporary branch to store your changes away, and
return to your original branch to make the emergency fix, like this:
</p>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code># ... hack hack hack ...
$ git checkout -b my_wip
$ git commit -a -m "WIP"
$ git checkout master
$ edit emergency fix
$ git commit -a -m "Fix in a hurry"
$ git checkout my_wip
$ git reset --soft HEAD^
# ... continue hacking ...</code></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>You can use <em>git stash</em> to simplify the above, like this:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code># ... hack hack hack ...
$ git stash
$ edit emergency fix
$ git commit -a -m "Fix in a hurry"
$ git stash pop
# ... continue hacking ...</code></pre>
</div></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
Testing partial commits
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
You can use <code>git stash push --keep-index</code> when you want to make two or
more commits out of the changes in the work tree, and you want to test
each change before committing:
</p>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code># ... hack hack hack ...
$ git add --patch foo # add just first part to the index
$ git stash push --keep-index # save all other changes to the stash
$ edit/build/test first part
$ git commit -m 'First part' # commit fully tested change
$ git stash pop # prepare to work on all other changes
# ... repeat above five steps until one commit remains ...
$ edit/build/test remaining parts
$ git commit foo -m 'Remaining parts'</code></pre>
</div></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
Recovering stash entries that were cleared/dropped erroneously
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
If you mistakenly drop or clear stash entries, they cannot be recovered
through the normal safety mechanisms. However, you can try the
following incantation to get a list of stash entries that are still in
your repository, but not reachable any more:
</p>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><code>git fsck --unreachable |
grep commit | cut -d\ -f3 |
xargs git log --merges --no-walk --grep=WIP</code></pre>
</div></div>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-checkout.html">git-checkout(1)</a>,
<a href="git-commit.html">git-commit(1)</a>,
<a href="git-reflog.html">git-reflog(1)</a>,
<a href="git-reset.html">git-reset(1)</a></p></div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p></div>
</div>
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