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This article will cover storing changes to only specific files in Git.

In Git, when we make some changes in our working tree, we may have some changes which may or may not be staged in our local repo.

We may now wish to save these changes for a while and work on a version of the file before these changes occurred.

So, for such purpose, we can use git stash pushthe command to store the changes (ie) for later use.

Likewise, afterward, we can use git stash popthe command to pick up these changes.

We may sometimes need to save or stash only the changes made to a specific file, rather than all the files changed in the repository working tree.

We will now illustrate this with an example.

In Git, git stash pushuse

Suppose we have a file called in the working tree of our repository example.txt. We made some changes to the file, and now we want to store those changes in Git for a while.

We might also have changes to other files in the working tree, but we don't want to hide them.

The command syntax to store a specific file in Git is git stash push <file>.

Therefore, we do the following to store only example.txtthe changes made to the file.

$ git stash push example.txt
Saved working directory and index state On main: example.txt
HEAD is now at 8b3560b minor changes

Therefore, we only stash example.txtchanges to the file.

We can now list the storage entries and see our storage entry as shown below.

$ git stash list
stash@{0}: On main: example.txt

We can also add a specific message while storing as shown below.

$ git stash push -m "my example stash" example.txt
Saved working directory and index state On main: my example stash example.txt
HEAD is now at 8b3560b minor changes

We can list it again as follows.

$ git stash list
stash@{0}: On main: my example stash example.txt

Apart from this, we can also interactively store specific changes to the required files in Git.

To do this, we need to use options --patch 或 -palong with git stash pushthe commands.

So to do this in our example we do the following.

$ git stash push --patch
diff --git a/example.txt
index 7ab5ca4..a281fc6 100644
--- a/example.txt	
+++ b/example.txt	
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@
 
 some text
+new text
 
some other text
some text again
+second new text


Stash this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,/,s,e,?]? y

Saved working directory and index state WIP on main: 8b3560b minor changes

git stashThe command iterates over all changes in the repository's working tree and prompts you to select the changes you want to store.

Here, except for the problem Stash this hunk [y,n,q,a,d,/,s,e,?]? 之外，我们还输入了选项 , 存储the example.txt file has changed.

We can enter the option nto not store the current hunk(changes) of the file.

For more information on git stashand available options, see the article, git stash – Saving Changes .