til/git/clear-entries-from-git-stash.md

Clear Entries From Git Stash

I often stash changes as I'm moving between branches, rebasing, or pulling in changes from the remote. Usually these are changes that I will want to restore with a git stash pop in a few moments.

However, sometimes these stashed changes are abandoned to time.

When I run git stash list on an active project, I see that there are nine entries in the list. When I do git show stash@{0} and git show stash@{1} to see the changes that comprise the latest two entries, I don't see anything I care about.

I can get rid of those individual entries with, say, git stash drop stash@{0}.

But I'm pretty confident that I don't care about any of the nine entries in my stash list, so I want to clear out all of them. I can do that with:

$ git stash clear

Now when I run git stash list, I see nothing.

See man git-stash for more details.