The following command deletes all your stashes:
git stash clear
From the git documentation:
clear Remove all the stashed states. IMPORTANT WARNING: Those states will then be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover (...).
This command enables you to look all stashed changes:
git stash list
Here is the following command use it to clear all of your stashed changes:
git stash clear
Now if you want to delete one of the stashed changes from stash area:
git stash drop stash@{index} # Index will be shown after getting stash list
Note: git stash list
enables you to get index from stash area of git.
git stash drop 'stash@{index}'
, with apostrophes.
There are two ways to delete a stash:
If you no longer need a particular stash, you can delete it with: $ git stash drop
Use both of them with caution, it maybe is difficult to revert the once deleted stashes.
Here is the reference article.
I wanted to keep a few recent stashes, but delete everything else.
Because all stashes get renumbered when you drop one, this is actually easy to do with while. To delete all stashes older than stash@{19}:
while git stash drop 'stash@{20}'; do true; done
git stash pop 3
instead? I wanted to know if we can use the while
loop and drop stashes using index values.
Clear all stashes at once
git stash clear
List all stashes
git stash list
delete specific stash
git stash drop stash@{index}
To delete all stashes older than 40 days, use:
git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=40.days refs/stash
Add --dry-run
to see which stashes are deleted.
See https://stackoverflow.com/a/44829516/946850 for an explanation and much more detail.
if you want to remove the latest stash or at any particular index -
git stash drop type_your_index
> git stash list
stash@{0}: abc
stash@{1}: xyz
stash@{1}: pqr
> git stash drop 0
Dropped refs/stash@{0}
> git stash list
stash@{0}: xyz
stash@{1}: pqr
if you want to remove all the stash at once -
> git stash clear
>
> git stash list
>
Warning : Once done you can not revert back your stash
If you just want to clear the latest stash or even you created a stash with git stash create then you should simply use
git stash drop
but if you want to clear all the git stashes of the current git repository then you can use
git stash clear
WARNING: Those states will then be subject to pruning(knock off), and maybe impossible to recover
I had another requirement like only few stash have to be removed, below code would be helpful in that case.
#!/bin/sh
for i in `seq 5 8`
do
git stash drop stash@{$i}
done
/* will delete from 5 to 8 index*/
for iterator in `seq 5 8`; git stash drop stash@{$iterator}; done
for i in `seq 4`; do git stash drop 'stash@{5}'; done
If you are working with VSCode, the 1.64 (Jan. 2022) will include git stash clear
in its commands.
See issue 123375 and commit 302c41c:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/ibxxb.png
"command": "git.stashDropAll",
Clear all stash from the list: git stash clear
Clear particular index from the list: git stash drop index
Success story sharing
stash drop
(" Remove a single stashed state from the stash list. When no <stash> is given, it removes the latest one. (...) ") does not answer the question (" How can I delete all of my Git stashes at once? ")?stash drop
removes a single stashed state. Butstash clear
has this Note that those states will then be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover. Andstash drop
doesn't have that text. So one can easily think that these commands don't do the same thing and have some big differece.git stash clear
, to confirm if all cleared, use -git stash list
git help <command>
is the best way to get documentation (and, it's actually pretty good). In this case,git help stash
clearly show thatgit stash clear
does the deed (this didn't stop me from coming to SO first and upvoting the answer... but that tells you more about me thangit
:D )