git stash | Notion

Suppose you are in Master branch and you are working with some files[index.html and app.css] and you create a new branch purple and you are changing the backround colours in app.css. suddenly if you want to switch to master branch :
- you can do and all your changes will come to the destination branch. but still they are not commited in the other branch. Once you add and commit and now move to master branch the other branch changes will not be reflected in the main branch.
- Git won’t let me switch if it detects potential conflicts. This is where you can use stashing.

Git provides an easy way of stashing these uncommitted changes so that we can return to them later, without having to make unnecessary commits.
git stash / git stash save helps you save changes that are not yet ready to commit. You can stash changes and the come back to them later.
git stash pop will remove the most recent stashed changes in you stash and re apply them to your working copy.
git stash apply will apply whatever is stashed away, without removing from the stash. This can be useful if you want to apply stashed changes to multiple branches.
You can also keep multiple stashes. Use git stash list to view all your stashes.
You can apply the stashes in the list by using git stash apply stash@{2}.
git stash drop stash@{2} will delete a particular stash from the list.
git stash clear will delete all the stashes from the list.