Stash just a single file

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I d like to be able to stash just the changes from a single file   git stash save -- just my file txt   The above doesn t work though  Any alternatives

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Just in case you actually mean  discard changes  whenever you use  git stash   and don t really use git stash to stash it temporarily   in that case you can use  git checkout --  lt file gt    Note that git stash is just a quicker and simple alternative to branching and doing stuff

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The best option is to stage everything but this file  and tell stash to keep the index with git stash save --keep-index  thus stashing your unstaged file     git add     git reset thefiletostash   git stash save --keep-index   As Dan points out  thefiletostash is the only one to be reset by the stash  but it also stashes the other files  so it s not exactly what you want

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I think stash -p is probably the choice you want  but just in case you run into other even more tricky things in the future  remember that   Stash is really just a very simple alternative to the only slightly more complex branch sets   Stash is very useful for moving things around quickly  but you can accomplish more complex things with branches without that much more headache and work     git checkout -b tmpbranch   git add the file   git commit -m  stashing the file    git checkout master   go about and do what you want  and then later simply rebase and or merge the tmpbranch   It really isn t that much extra work when you need to do more careful tracking than stash will allow

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If you do not want to specify a message with your stashed changes  pass the filename after a double-dash     git stash -- filename ext   If it s an untracked new file  you will have to stage it first   However  if you do want to specify a message  use push   git stash push -m  describe changes to filename ext  filename ext   Both methods work in git versions 2 13

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You can interactively stash single lines with git stash -p  analogous to git add -p    It doesn t take a filename  but you could just skip other files with d until you reached the file you want stashed and the stash all changes in there with a

[git] Stash just a single file

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