Creating named stashes in Git - Try It Yourself

Creating named stashes

📖 Scenario: You are working on a project and need to temporarily save your changes without committing them. You want to save these changes with a clear name so you can find them later easily.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to create a named stash in Git to save your work temporarily with a descriptive label.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a file with changes

Create a named stash with a specific message

List stashes to verify the named stash

Show the stash list output

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Developers often need to pause their work and switch tasks. Named stashes help save work with clear labels to return to later.

💼 Career

Knowing how to manage stashes with names is useful for developers and DevOps engineers to handle code changes efficiently without losing work.

1

Create a file with changes

Create a file called feature.txt and add the text Initial feature work inside it.

Git

# Create a file named feature.txt and add the text 'Initial feature work'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the echo command to write text into a file.

2

Create a named stash

Use the git stash push command with the -m option to create a stash named feature update.

Git

echo 'Initial feature work' > feature.txt
# Create a named stash with message 'feature update'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use git stash push -m 'your message' to create a named stash.

3

List all stashes

Use the git stash list command to show all saved stashes.

Git

echo 'Initial feature work' > feature.txt
git stash push -m 'feature update'
# List all stashes
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use git stash list to see all stashes with their names.

4

Show the stash list output

Run the program and show the output of git stash list which should include the stash named feature update.

Git

echo 'Initial feature work' > feature.txt
git stash push -m 'feature update'
git stash list
# Print the stash list output
# Your code here

Need a hint?

The output should show the stash with the message 'feature update'.