Stash only some of the currently modified files

Question

I have many changed files and would like to stash only some of the modified files.

As an example, my repository looks something like:

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

      modified: main.cpp
      modified: MyClass.h
      modified: MyClass.cpp

And I would like to stash MyClass.h and MyClass.cpp only.

I found this question but the accepted answer appears to be wrong and the most voted answer requires each hunk/file to be interactively added.

Is there an easy way to stash a specific set of files? Preferably in a single command without having to interactively select files one by one or stage/unstage things.

Have you seen https://stackoverflow.com/q/49886083/2541573 ? — jub0bs, Apr 18 '18 at 18:10
I had not but that still requires that you interactively select a set of changes in `git stash --patch` right? — Increasingly Idiotic, Apr 18 '18 at 18:21

score 41 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '18 at 18:19

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I found git stash push can be used to easily stash multiple files.

To stash the files from the example the command would be

 git stash push MyClass.h MyClass.cpp

Which stashes MyClass.h and MyClass.cpp but leaves main.cpp alone.

Found in an edit to this answer

answered Apr 18 '18 at 18:19

Increasingly Idiotic

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Nice find. I had overlooked `git stash push`. – jub0bs Apr 18 '18 at 18:29
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`git stash push -- ` is kind of nice, but be careful with it: it has a nasty bug of removing untracked files, not fixed until Git 2.16.2. – torek Apr 18 '18 at 19:26
This is also suggested in the QA you linked to in your question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/45693541/1615903 – 1615903 Apr 19 '18 at 05:52
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Works on directories too `git stash push lib/` – Adverbly Aug 10 '22 at 14:07

Stash only some of the currently modified files

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