Ode to git stash

Just had to get this off my chest: I ❤️ git stash! A couple of minutes ago, I launched Visual Studio Code, started typing away and saved my changes. Only to realize that I hadn't pulled the latest changes yet.

In this case, we need a place to stash our changes, revert the working tree to the latest commit and pull the latest changes. Then we can re-apply the stashed changes and continue as we always would.

The stash command makes this process as clean as a whistle:

  
  $ git stash push
  Saved working directory and index state WIP on develop: 31ad768 Added alt tag on homepage image of myself
  

This saves the unstaged changes that I've made to a new stash entry. And then reverts the branch that we're on (develop) to its latest commit.

We can now safely perform git pull, which updates our working tree with the latest upstream changes. To re-apply the stashed changes, we just have to execute one more command:

  
  $ git stash pop
  On branch develop
  Your branch is up to date with 'origin/develop'.

  Changes not staged for commit:
    (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
    (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
          modified:   articles/git-stash.md
          modified:   index.html

  no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
  Dropped refs/stash@{0} (f34a4648801daed4f0c20535ff7a3cd766df5fe3)
  

The changes which I first made in the working tree are once again present and ready to be added!