How can I git stash a specific file

Question

How can I stash a specific file leaving the others currently modified out of the stash I am about to save   For example  if git status gives me this   younker   gst         On branch master   Your branch is ahead of  origin master  by 1 commit      Changes not staged for commit       use  git add  lt file gt      to update what will be committed       use  git checkout --  lt file gt      to discard changes in working directory        modified    app controllers cart controller php     modified    app views cart welcome thtml   no changes added to commit  use  git add  and or  git commit -a     and I only want to stash app views cart welcome thtml  how would I do that  Something like  but of course this does not work    git stash save welcome cart app views cart welcome thtml

User · Accepted Answer

EDIT  Since git 2 13  there is a command to save a specific path to the stash  git stash push  lt path gt   For example    git stash push -m welcome cart app views cart welcome thtml   OLD ANSWER   You can do that using git stash --patch  or git stash -p  -- you ll enter interactive mode where you ll be presented with each hunk that was changed  Use n to skip the files that you don t want to stash  y when you encounter the one that you want to stash  and q to quit and leave the remaining hunks unstashed   a will stash the shown hunk and the rest of the hunks in that file   Not the most user-friendly approach  but it gets the work done if you really need it

User · Answer

I usually add to index changes I don t want to stash and then stash with --keep-index option  git add app controllers cart controller php git stash --keep-index git reset  Last step is optional  but usually you want it   It removes changes from index   Warning As noted in the comments  this puts everything into the stash  both staged and unstaged  The --keep-index just leaves the index alone after the stash is done  This can cause merge conflicts when you later pop the stash

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To add to svick s answer  the -m option simply adds a message to your stash  and is entirely optional  Thus  the command git stash push  paths you wish to stash   is perfectly valid  So for instance  if I want to only stash changes in the src  directory  I can just run git stash push src

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