How to Temporarily Stash Changes with Git Stash 🌱

git stash temporarily shelves (or stashes) changes you’ve made to your working copy so you can work on something else, and then come back and re-apply them later on. Stashing is handy if you need to quickly switch context and work on something else, but you’re mid-way through a code change and aren’t quite ready to commit.

The git stash command takes your uncommitted changes (both staged and unstaged), saves them away for later use, and then reverts them from your working copy.

• Adding the -uoption (or --include-untracked) tells git stash to also stash your untracked files
• Adding the -aoption (or -all) tells git stash to also stash ignored files
• git stash save "message" allows you to specify a message corresponding to a specific stash

How to Get Back Stashed Code

• git stash list allows you to list out all the different stashes you’ve made
• git stash pop reapplies previously stashed changes but removes the changes from your stash, so they are no longer stashed.
  • defaultly applies the most recently stashed code
• git stash apply reapplies previously stashed changes without removing the code from your stash
• You can choose a specific version to reapply with git stash pop stash@{2} where stash@{2} represents the identifier for which stash to pop