How to add file to existing stash in git?

Question

When I did git stash push <path/to/file> it created stash@{0} for it. Reusing the same command with different file creates another stash -> stash@{1}. I have other files that logically belong to stash@{0}.

Can I somehow push file to existing stash?

• Saurabh P Bhandari: While creating the stash you could have done, git stash push <path/to/file1> <path/to/file2>, push takes multiple files
• torek: A Git stash is just a little clump of commits that aren't on any branch. As with any commit, you cannot change anything about it once it's made. All you can do is make a new, different commit—or in this case, a new, different stash—that has the content you want, and stop using the old one. I generally recommend avoiding git stash: just make normal commits instead.

Answer 1

If you mean akin to git commit --amend, I am afraid you are out of luck, but would it be acceptable for your use case, to:

git stash pop

and then

git stash push ORIGINAL_FILES MORE_FILES

to have the files grouped?

• Shashank Bhatt: By default pop command will pop 0th stash i.e. stash@{0} so to pop first nth stash git stash pop stash@{n} and then git stash push -m "useful message" <path-spec-including-old-and-new-files>

Answer 2

As per git docs,

<stash>

This option is only valid for apply, branch, drop, pop, show commands.

A reference of the form stash@{<revision>}. When no <stash> is given, the latest stash is assumed (that is, stash@{0}).

So you can't do this directly using push command of git stash.

Probably use this git stash push <path/to/file1> <path/to/file2> ... next time as push accepts multiple pathspecs (filenames)