Git Stash vs Shelve in IntelliJ IDEA

Question

I am very unfamiliar with the shelve aspect of Git  If stash is used to put aside unfinished work what is shelve then  What would you use it for  For example on Update Project  from VCS menu   one will get  in IntelliJ IDEA 2019 2

User · Accepted Answer

git shelve doesn t exist in Git     Only git stash    when you want to record the current state of the working directory and the index  but want to go back to a clean working directory   which saves your local modifications away and reverts the working directory to match the HEAD commit    You had a 2008 old project git shelve to isolate modifications in a branch  but that wouldn t be very useful nowadays   As documented in Intellij IDEA shelve dialog  the feature  shelving and unshelving  is not linked to a VCS  Version Control System tool  but to the IDE itself  to temporarily storing pending changes you have not committed yet in changelist   Note that since Git 2 13  Q2 2017   you now can stash individual files too

User · Answer

In addition to previous answers there is one important for me note   shelve is JetBrains products feature  such as WebStorm  PhpStorm  PyCharm  etc    It puts shelved files into  idea shelf directory   stash is one of git options  It puts stashed files under the  git directory

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When using JetBrains IDE s with Git   stashing and unstashing actions are supported in addition to shelving and unshelving  These features have much in common  the major difference is in the way patches are generated and applied  Shelve can operate with either individual files or bunch of files  while Stash can only operate with a whole bunch of changed files at once  Here are some more details on the differences between them

User · Answer

Shelf is a JetBrains feature while Stash is a Git feature for same work  You can switch to different branch without commit and loss of work using either of features  My personal experience is to use Shelf

User · Answer

I would prefer to shelve changes instead of stashing them if I am not sharing my changes elsewhere    Stashing is a git feature and doesn t give you the option to select specific files or changes inside a file  Shelving can do that but this is an IDE-specific feature  not a git feature     As you can see I am able to choose to specify which files lines to include on my shelve  Note that I can t do that with stashing   Beware using shelves in the IDE may limit the portability of your patches because those changes are not stored in a  git folder   Some helpful links    https   www jetbrains com help idea shelving-and-unshelving-changes html https   www jetbrains com help idea work-on-several-features-simultaneously html

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