Stashing 

what is stashing mean ? and when we can need it ?

I will imagen  a scenario then the ways that we have to fix this problem 

imagen that you are working on your project on a specific branch then you put some code to do some tests on that branch  then you figured out that you need to take that code to another branch to test that branch also 

then when you try to checkout that branch you found that you can't and git request from you either to commit your current changes on current branch or to stash them so here in this article we took about how and why and when we need to do stash command

as we see here when i tried to list stashing queue it print nothing and this is because our queue is still empty 

now our working dirctory is cleared 

but when we tried to checkout the main branch and pop the stashing changes we found that we have a conflict and we need to solve it 

after solving this conflict we now have the change is applied into different branch without commit these changes 

stash command is GIT feature that allow us to safe our working area with commit them so this stashing area is accessible from any where from your repo you can pop them into any commit or branch this allows you to move with these changes through all commit that you need to apply these changes to it so this will add  a great flexibility to you when you are working with GIT.


first we will solve this problem through GIT CMD then we will get the easiest way to do with GIt extension 

Stashing command options : 

Pop and push : the same idea of the stack concept in data structure 

You have a queue of stashing changes and you will push the current changes into stash queue or you will use pop to pop the top changes into the queue into your current working directory


If you need to differentiate between them with message then you can use the following command 

Git stash save “your message”     -> the same idea of commit command 

Git stash list    -> will lest to you all stashed changes currently saved

Git stash drop  “stash“   -> this will delete that specific stash from the list 

Git stash clear   -> will delete all stash list so be careful when you use this command  


also you can get all stash command options through GIT help option 

$ git stash --help