Using git stash

In this example, we'll explore the git stash command and learn how we can use it to quickly stash away uncommitted changes and retrieve them again. This can be useful when you are interrupted while doing an urgent task and you are not yet ready to commit the work you currently have in your working directory. With the git stash command, you can save the state of your current working directory with/without a staging area and restore the working tree to a clean state.

Getting ready

In this example, we'll use the Git-Version-Control-Cookbook-Second-Edition_tips_and_tricks repository. We'll use the master branch, but before we are ready to try the stash command, we need to create some changes in the working directory and the staging area, as follows:

$ git clone https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Git-Version-Control-Cookbook-Second-Edition_tips_and_tricks.git
$ cd Git-Version-Control-Cookbook-Second-Edition_tips_and_tricks
$ git checkout master

Make some changes to foo and add them...