Git Stash: Save Work & Switch Branches

Git stash is a command in Git that is used to temporarily save the current work progress so that you can switch to work on other branches. It saves the uncommitted changes as a stack state that can be reapplied at any time.

With the git stash command, you can perform the following actions:

1. Save current work progress: Execute the git stash command to save uncommitted changes to a new stack and revert to a clean working directory, allowing you to switch to a different branch to continue working.
2. To check the saved work progress, use the command git stash list to list all saved work progress.
3. There are two ways to restore saved work progress:
4. By executing the “git stash apply” command, you can restore the latest saved work progress to the current branch.
5. By running the command “git stash apply stash@{n}”, you can restore the specified saved work progress to the current branch.
6. To delete a saved work in progress: Use the command “git stash drop” to remove the most recently saved work progress.
7. Executing the command git stash drop stash@{n} will remove the specified saved work in progress.
8. Restore and delete saved work in progress: By executing the git stash pop command, you can restore the latest saved work in progress to the current branch and remove it from the stack.
9. Using the command git stash pop stash@{n} allows you to restore a specific saved work progress to the current branch and remove it from the stash stack.
10. Create a new branch and restore the saved work progress: by running the command git stash branch , you can create a new branch and restore the most recent saved work progress to that branch.

It is important to note that git stash can only save changes that have not been added to the staging area. Once you have used the git add command to add changes to the staging area, those changes cannot be saved with stash.