How can I delete all of my Git stashes at once

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How can I delete all of my Git stashes at once   Specifically I mean  with typing in one command

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this command enables you to look all stashed changes.

git stash list

Here is the following command use it to clear all of your stashed Changes

git stash clear

Now if you want to delete one of the stashed changes from stash area

git stash drop stash@{index}   // here index will be shown after getting stash list.

Note : git stash list enables you to get index from stash area of git.

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if you want to remove the latest stash or at any particular index -   git stash drop type your index   gt  git stash list    stash  0   abc   stash  1   xyz   stash  1   pqr   gt  git stash drop 0    Dropped refs stash  0    gt  git stash list    stash  0   xyz   stash  1   pqr      if you want to remove all the stash at once -    gt  git stash clear  gt    gt  git stash list  gt    Warning   Once done you can not revert back your stash

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I had another requirement like only few stash have to be removed  below code would be helpful in that case      bin sh for i in  seq 5 8  do    git stash drop stash   i  done      will delete from 5 to 8 index

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To delete all stashes older than 40 days  use   git reflog expire --expire-unreachable 40 days refs stash   Add --dry-run to see which stashes are deleted   See https   stackoverflow com a 44829516 946850 for an explanation and much more detail

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The following command deletes all your stashes  git stash clear  From the git documentation   clear Remove all the stashed states  IMPORTANT WARNING  Those states will then be subject to pruning  and may be impossible to recover

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I wanted to keep a few recent stashes  but delete everything else   Because all stashes get renumbered when you drop one  this is actually easy to do with while   To delete all stashes older than stash  19    while git stash drop  stash  20    do true  done

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There are two ways to delete a stash    If you no longer need a particular stash  you can delete it with    git stash drop  lt stash id gt    You can delete all of your stashes from the repo with    git stash clear    Use both of them with caution  it maybe is difficult to revert the once deleted stashes   Here is the reference article

[git] How can I delete all of my Git stashes at once?

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