Stashes are numbered where index 0 is the most recent. New stashes are added to the front of the list to become the new index 0.

A stash reference is stash@{0} and the shorthand is just the index such as 0 in this case.

If the reference is omitted, then index 0 is implied.

Create

Note you cannot stash on a repo with no commits.

Create stash.

$ git stash

Stash everything, tracked or not.

$ git stash --include-untracked

Or use add if you need to include untracked files then stash.

$ git add .
$ git stash

$ git stash save 'Name of stash'

Show

List stashes

$ git stash list

e.g.

stash@{0}: On foo-bar: stash name
stash@{1}: On master: another stash name
stash@{3}: WIP on master: a5a067af Commit message

Show stashed file list.

$ git stash show [STASH_REF]

Show stashed diff.

$ git stash show [STASH_REF] -p

Unstash

Apply and remove.

$ git stash pop [STASH_REF]

Apply without removing.

$ git stash apply [STASH_REF]

Remove without applying.

$ git stash drop [STASH_REF]

Split changed files

If you have say 10 files changed and you want to stash just some of them, you can do this.

  1. Stage the files you want to stage. 
     $ git add foo
  2. Stash only staged files using the --keep-index flag. 
     $ git stash -k
  3. Optionally, you can now can stash the files which were not staged, so you’ll end up with two stashes. 
     $ git stash