[git] Stashing only staged changes in git - is it possible?

Another approach to this is to create a temporary commit with files you don't want to be stashed, then stash remaining files and gently remove last commit, keeping the files intact:

git add *files that you don't want to be stashed*
git commit -m "temp"
git stash --include-untracked
git reset --soft HEAD~1

That way you only touch files that you want to be touched.

Note, "--include-untracked" is used here to also stash new files (which is probably what you really want).