How do you stash an untracked file

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I have changes to a file  plus a new file  and would like to use git stash to put them away while I switch to another task   But git stash by itself stashes only the changes to the existing file  the new file remains in my working tree  cluttering up my future work   How do I stash this untracked file

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How do you stash an untracked file  git stash --include-untracked

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As has been said elsewhere  the answer is to git add the file   e g    git add path to untracked-file git stash   However  the question is also raised in another answer  What if you don t really want to add the file   Well  as far as I can tell  you have to   And the following will NOT work   git add -N path to untracked file       note  -N is short for --intent-to-add git stash   this will fail  as follows   path to untracked-file  not added yet fatal  git-write-tree  error building trees Cannot save the current index state   So  what can you do   Well  you have to truly add the file  however  you can effectively un-add it later  with git rm --cached   git add path to untracked-file git stash save  don t forget to un-add path to untracked-file    stash w reminder   do some other work git stash list   shows    stash  0   On master  don t forget to un-add path to untracked-file git stash pop     or apply instead of pop  to keep the stash available git rm --cached path to untracked-file   And then you can continue working  in the same state as you were in before the git add  namely with an untracked file called path to untracked-file  plus any other changes you might have had to tracked files    Another possibility for a workflow on this would be something like   git ls-files -o  gt  files-to-untrack git add  cat files-to-untrack    note  files-to-untrack will be listed  itself  git stash   do some work git stash pop git rm --cached  cat files-to-untrack  rm files-to-untrack    Note  As mentioned in a comment from  mancocapac  you may wish to add --exclude-standard to the git ls-files command  so  git ls-files -o --exclude-standard         which could also be easily scripted -- even aliases would do  presented in zsh syntax  adjust as needed   also  I shortened the filename so it all fits on the screen without scrolling in this answer  feel free to substitute an alternate filename of your choosing    alias stashall  git ls-files -o  gt   gftu  git add  cat  gftu   git stash  alias unstashall  git stash pop  git rm --cached  cat  gftu   rm  gftu    Note that the latter might be better as a shell script or function  to allow parameters to be supplied to git stash  in case you don t want pop but apply  and or want to be able to specify a specific stash  rather than just taking the top one   Perhaps this  instead of the second alias  above   whitespace stripped to fit without scrolling  re-add for increased legibility    function unstashall   git stash      -pop   git rm --cached  cat  gftu  rm  gftu    Note  In this form  you need to supply an action argument as well as the identifier if you re going to supply a stash identifier  e g  unstashall apply stash  1  or unstashall pop stash  1   Which of course you d put in your  zshrc or equivalent to make exist long-term   Hopefully this answer is helpful to someone  putting everything together all in one answer

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You can simply do it with below command  git stash save --include-untracked   or  git stash save -u   For more about git stash Visit this post  Click Here

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In git bash  stashing of untracked files is achieved by using the command git stash --include-untracked   or git stash -u  http   git-scm com docs git-stash git stash removes any untracked or uncommited files from your workspace  And you can revert git stash by using following commands git stash pop  This will place the file back in your local workspace  My experience I had to perform a modification to my gitIgnore file to avoid movement of  classpath and  project files into remote repo  I am not allowed to move this modified  gitIgnore in remote repo as of now   classpath and  project files are important for eclipse - which is my java editor  I first of all selectively added my rest of the files and committed for staging  However  final push cannot be performed unless the modified  gitIgnore fiels and the untracked files viz   project and  classpath are not stashed  I used git stash  for stashing the modified  gitIgnore file  For stashing  classpath and  project file  I used git stash --include-untracked  and it removed the files from my workspace  Absence of these files takes away my capability of working on my work location in eclipse  I proceeded on with completing the procedure for pushing the committed files to remote  Once this was done successfully  I used git stash pop  This pasted the same files back in my workspace  This gave back to me my ability to work on the same project in eclipse  Hope this brushes aside misconceptions

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I used to ponder and desire the same feature  But over time  I noticed it really isn t needed  When you stash  it s OK to leave the new files   Nothing  bad  can happen to them  when you check out something else  git will error and not overwrite the existing untracked file   And since usually the time frame between the git stash and the git stash pop is rather small  you ll be needing the untracked file quickly again  So I would say the inconvenience of the file showing up in git status while you re working on something else  between the git stash and the git stash pop  is smaller then the inconvenience caused by the work and needed attention it would otherwise cost to try to add the untracked file to your stash

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I was able to stash just the untracked files by doing   git stash save  tracked files I m working on  git stash save -u  untracked files I m trying to stash  git stash pop stash  1    The last one pops the stash of the tracked files  thus leaving only the untracked files stashed

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As of git 1 7 7  git stash accepts the --include-untracked option  or short-hand -u   To include untracked files in your stash  use either of the following commands  git stash --include-untracked   or git stash -u  Warning  doing this will permanently delete your files if you have any directory  entries in your gitignore file

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To stash your working directory including untracked files  especially those that are in the  gitignore  then you probably want to use this cmd  git stash --include-untracked   Alternatively  you can use the shorthand -u instead of --include-untracked  More details  Update 17 May 2018  New versions of git now have git stash --all which stashes all files  including untracked and ignored files  git stash --include-untracked no longer touches ignored files  tested on git 2 16 2   Original answer below  Warning  doing this will permanently delete your files if you have any directory   entries in your gitignore file  As of version 1 7 7 you can use git stash --include-untracked or git stash save -u to stash untracked files without staging them  Add  git add  the file and start tracking it  Then stash  Since the entire contents of the file are new  they will be stashed  and you can manipulate it as necessary

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I encountered a similar problem while using Sourcetree with newly created files  they wouldnt be included in the stash either    When I first chose  stage all  and then stash the newly added components where tracked and therefore included in the stash

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On git version 2 8 1  following works for me   To save modified and untracked files in stash without a name  git stash save -u   To save modified and untracked files in stash with a name  git stash save -u  lt name of stash gt    You can use either pop or apply later as follows   git stash pop  git stash apply stash  0

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Updated Answer In 2020 I was surprised that no other answers on this page mentioned git stash push  This article helped me understand   The command git stash is shorthand for git stash push  In this mode  non-option arguments are not allowed to prevent a misspelled subcommand from making an unwanted stash entry  There are also another alias for this command git stash save which is deprecated in favour of git stash push  By default git ignores untracked files when doing stash  If those files need to be added to stash you can use -u options which tells git to include untracked files  Ignored files can be added as well if -a option is specified  -a will include both untracked and ignored files   I care about naming my stashes  and I want them to include untracked files  so the command I most commonly run is  git stash push -u -m  quot whatIWantToNameThisStash quot

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Add the file to the index   git add path to untracked-file git stash   The entire contents of the index  plus any unstaged changes to existing files  will all make it into the stash

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There are several correct answers here  but I wanted to point out that for new entire directories   git add path  will NOT work  So if you have a bunch of new files in untracked-path and do this   git add untracked-path git stash  temp stash    this will stash with the following message   Saved working directory and index state On master  temp stash warning  unable to rmdir untracked-path  Directory not empty   and if untracked-path is the only path you re stashing  the stash  temp stash  will be an empty stash  Correct way is to add the entire path  not just the directory name  i e  end the path with a        git add untracked-path  git stash  temp stash

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I thought this could be solved by telling git that the file exists  rather than committing all of the contents of it to the staging area  and then call git stash  Araqnid describes how to do the former   git add --intent-to-add path to untracked-file   or  git update-index --add --cacheinfo 100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 path to untracked-file   However  the latter doesn t work     git stash b rb  not added yet fatal  git-write-tree  error building trees Cannot save the current index state

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let s suppose the new and untracked file is called   views json   if you want to change branch by stashing the state of your app  I generally type   git add views json   Then   git stash   And it would be stashed  Then I can just change branch with  git checkout other-nice-branch

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If you want to stash untracked files  but keep indexed files  the ones you re about to commit for example   just add -k  keep index  option to the -u  git stash -u -k

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