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Git Stash Tips

Show Stash Diff

To see the difference between the current code and some stash's entry, you can run the following:

git stash show -p

You can specify a stash index too:

// git stash list
stash@{0}: First entry
stash@{1}: Second entry
stash@{2}: Third entry
stash@{3}: Fourth entry
stash@{4}: Fifth entry

git stash show -p 1 // Shows diff for stash@{1} // Second entry

git stash push

You can run this command to save code into the stash with a specific message so it's easier to differentiate multiple stash entries later (and even apply a specific one by using git stash apply):

git stash push -m "Custom Message"

Note: git stash save "Custom Message" is deprecated, so I'd suggest to stick with git stash push.

git stash apply

Let's suppose that you have the following entries in the stash:

// git stash list
stash@{0}: First entry
stash@{1}: Second entry
stash@{2}: Third entry
stash@{3}: Fourth entry
stash@{4}: Fifth entry

You can run git stash apply with the index of the stash list as a parameter (starting with 0) to apply the entry "Third entry" from the stash:

git stash apply 2

This means that git stash pop is equivalent to git stash apply 0.

Apply a Stash Without Removing it From the List

If you may want to apply some changes but keep them in the stash, you can run the following:

git stash apply

According to git docs:

Like pop, but do not remove the state from the stash list

Disable Pagination for git stash list

There's an issue that prevents to add a global configuration to disable pagination for git stash list, so you can only do this on a per command basis:

git --no-pager stash list

This maybe be a bit cumbersome to repeat, so you can always create an alias for git stash list as I did:

alias gstl='git --no-pager stash list'

Now you can run gstl to list your stash entries.

Stash a Specific File

If you want to stash a specific file(s), you can append them on the git stash -m message syntax:

git stash push -m "Custom Message" index.js package.json yarn.lock