Stashing

Save work in progress

Stashing saves your modified and staged files without creating a commit — useful when you need to switch branches mid-task.

$ git stash push -m "description"

Without -m, Git generates a message from the current HEAD commit, which makes it harder to find the right stash later.

Save including untracked files

$ git stash push -u -m "description"

Restore the latest stash

$ git stash pop                     # restore and remove from stash
$ git stash apply                   # restore but keep in stash

List and drop stash entries

Entries are numbered starting at 0 (most recent). Use the stash@{N} syntax to target a specific entry.

$ git stash list                    # show all entries
$ git stash drop stash@{0}          # delete a specific entry
$ git stash clear                   # delete all entries

stash@{0} is always the latest stash. After dropping an entry, the remaining entries are renumbered.