Git/C2/Stashing-and-Cleaning/English
Title of script: Stashing and Cleaning
Author: Priya K
Keywords: Video tutorial, stashing, save stash, delete stash, save temporary changes, stash pop, stash drop, stash apply, stash clear
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Slide 1:
Stashing and Cleaning in Git |
Welcome to the spoken tutorial on stashing and cleaning in Git. |
Slide 2:Learning Objectives
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In this tutorial, we will learn about stashing.
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Slide 3:
System requirement
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To record this tutorial, I am using
You can use any editor of your choice. |
Slide 4:
Pre-requisites
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To follow this tutorial
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Let us learn about stashing. | |
Slide 5:
Stashing |
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Recall that we already came across the term stash earlier in this tutorial series.
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Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open the terminal | Let us begin by opening the terminal. |
We will open our Git repository mywebpage which we created earlier. | |
Type cd mywebpage and press Enter | Type cd space mywebpage and press Enter. |
I will continue to use html files for demonstration.
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From here onwards, please remember to press the Enter key after typing every command on the terminal. | |
Type git branch and press Enter | First we will check the branch list by typing
git space branch |
Highlight chapter-three | I have already created a branch named chapter-three.
And I have done a commit inside it, for demonstration purpose. Please make sure that you also create a new branch and make a commit inside it. |
Type git branch chapter-three and press Enter | We will go into the branch chapter-three by typing
git space checkout space chapter-three |
Type git log --oneline and press Enter
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Let’s check the Git log.
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Type ls and press Enter
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Let’s check the folder content by typing ls
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Highlight mypage.html
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Now, we’ll make some changes on the file mypage.html
gedit space mypage.html space ampersand. |
Copy and paste some lines | I will copy and paste some lines into this file, from my Writer document, which I had saved earlier. |
Save and close the file | Then save and close the file. |
Type git status and press Enter | To check the Git status, type git space status |
Highlight Changes not staged for commit | We can understand that our changes are not staged yet. |
When we work in a big project, we may need to switch branches frequently. | |
Type git checkout master and press Enter | Now, let’s say, we want to go back to our master branch to work on something else.
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Highlight “commit your changes or stash them” | This error shows that we can't switch back to other branches without committing the changes. |
I don't want to commit the changes right now, as my work is just half-done. | |
Type git checkout --force master
Highlight --force |
If we will forcefully exit this branch using the hyphen hyphen force flag, the changes will get discarded. |
Highlight stash | But what if I want to save the changes temporarily?
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Type git stash save “ Stashed mypage.html” | We can save the changes temporarily by typing
git space stash space save space within double quotes “Stashed mypage.html” |
Highlight Stashed mypage.html and press Enter | Here “Stashed mypage.html” is the stash name I have given.
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Highlight Stashed mypage.html and chapter-three | On the terminal, the stash name and the branch name where the stash is created, is displayed. |
Type git status and press Enter
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We will check the Git status by typing
git space status.
So we can switch branches now.
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Type git checkout master and press Enter | Now let's try to go into master branch by typing
git space checkout space master.
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Type git checkout chapter-three and press Enter | Next, let us see another way of stashing.
git space checkout space chapter-three. |
Type gedit history.html & and press Enter | Now I will edit the file history.html.
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Copy and paste the content | I will add some lines from my Writer document here. |
Save and close the file | Then save and close the file. |
Type git status and press Enter | Let's check the Git status by typing
git space status. |
Highlight modified: history.html
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Say, for example, in stash I want to save these changes in another way.
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Highlight the stash name | Note that we didn't give the stash name here.
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Type git log --oneline and press Enter | Next, we will check whether the stash name and the latest commit are same.
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Type git stash list and press Enter | To check the stash list, type git space stash space list. |
Highlight the latest commit from git log
Highlight the latest stash from stash list |
You can see that the latest commit and the latest stash name are same. |
Highlight “stash@{0}: WIP on chapter-three: c56658b Initial commit in chapter-three branch ” | Note that the latest stash is listed first.
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Highlight the stash@{0} | This is the stash id which will be generated automatically. |
I will create one more stash for demonstration purpose. | |
Type gedit story.html & and press Enter | For that, I will edit the file story.html.
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Add some lines | I will add some lines in the file story.html. |
Save and close the file | Then save and close the file. |
Type git stash save “ Stashed story.html” and press Enter | Now I will save the changes in a stash.
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Type git stash list and press Enter | Let's check the stash list by typing git space stash space list. |
Highlight the stashes | We can see that now we have three stashes in the chapter-three branch.
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In certain situations, we may not remember what changes we have saved in the stashes. | |
Let us see how to check it. | |
Highlight stash@{0}
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Say, for example, I want to see the details of stash@{0}.
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Highlight story.html changes | We can see the changes of story.html.
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Next we will continue to work on the stashed files.
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Type git stash list and press Enter | To check the stash list, type git space stash space list. |
Highlight stash@{1} | For example, now we will apply the stash@{1}. |
Type git stash apply stash@{1} | To do so, type git space stash space apply space stash @ (at the rate symbol) within curly brackets one. |
Highlight stash@{1}
Highlight stash@{0} and press Enter |
If you don't mention the stash id, the latest stash (i.e) stash@{0} will be applied. |
Highlight “modified file: history.html” | You can see that our stash is applied successfully. |
Type git stash list and press Enter | Let's check the stash list by typing git space stash space list. |
We can see the stash@{1} still in the list and this may lead to confusion in future.
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Highlight stash@{1}
Type git stash drop stash@{1} and press Enter |
To delete the stash@{1}, type
git space stash space drop space stash@ (at the rate symbol) within curly brackets one. |
Type git stash list and press Enter | To check the stash list, type git space stash space list. |
Highlight “stash@{1}: WIP on chapter-three: c56658b Initial commit in chapter-three branch”
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We can see that our stash@{1} is removed.
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Type git stash pop and press Enter | Now, we will learn to apply a stash in another way.
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Highlight stash@{0}
Highlight “modified: story.html” |
We can see that our stash@{0} is applied. |
Highlight stash@{0} from stash list | So, if we use stash pop command, the most recent stash (i.e) stash@{0} will be applied. |
Type git stash list and press Enter | Again we will check the stash list by typing
git space stash space list. |
Highlight “stash@{0}: On chapter-three: Stashed story.html”
Highlight “stash@{0}: On chapter-three: Stashed mypage.html” |
Now we can see that stash@{0} is removed.
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Highlight “stash pop”
Highlight dropped stash@{0} |
So the stash pop command will apply the stash@{0} and delete it automatically.
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Next we will learn how to remove all the stashes at once. | |
Type git stash clear and press Enter | To delete all the stashes from our repository, type
git space stash space clear. |
Type git stash list and press Enter | Again, we will check the stash list by typing
git space stash space list.
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With this, we come to the end of this tutorial. | |
Slide 6:
Summary
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Let us summarize.
In this tutorial, we have learnt about Stashing.
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Slide 7:
Assignment
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As an assignment
(Use – git stash pop)
(Hint – git stash clear) |
Slide 8:
Acknowledgement
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The video at the following link summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.
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Slide 9:
Spoken Tutorial Workshops
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The Spoken Tutorial Project Team conducts workshops and gives certificates to those who pass online tests.
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Slide 10:
Spoken Tutorial Project |
Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD, Government of India.
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This is Priya from IIT Bombay. Thanks for joining. |