stash.md

1. Edit a file

Edit your student-questions/<your_github_username>-workshop-question.md, make a change, and quit the file.

2. Check git status

git status

And you'll see that file under the "Changes not staged for commit" title.

3. Stash the changes

git stash

Now run:

git status

And you'll see that there is "nothing to commit, working directory clean".

4. View the stash

git stash list

5. Apply the stash

git stash apply

Or:

git stash pop

Now run:

git status

And you'll see that file you edited is again listed under the "Changes not staged for commit" title.

Donal says: The stash is a stack. You can git stash pop the top item, but you can also git apply a specific item in the stash. You can change branches then git apply a stash so be careful as this may cause merge conflicts.