Using Git Stash: A Quick Guide to Saving and Restoring Changes
Introduction Git, a well-known distributed version control system (DVCS), provides a comprehensive suite of features for managing a project’s history and collaborating effectively. While working with Git, situations arise where you want to switch to a different branch while you have uncommitted changes. Attempting to switch branches without committing your changes results in an error message like the following: 1 2 3 4 error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten by checkout: file.txt Please commit your changes or stash them before you switch branches. Aborting This error indicates that changes in the file file.txt are blocking the branch switch. In such scenarios, you have the option to either commit your changes or temporarily save them. In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to temporarily save your changes using Git stash, allowing you to switch to a different branch. ...