Stashing and Cherry-Picking — Git's Tactical Tools
Saving work temporarily with stash and moving specific commits between branches with cherry-pick
You're deep into building a feature. Your AI agent just made some solid progress on the payment integration. Then your phone buzzes — there's a critical bug in production that needs fixing right now.
You can't switch branches because you have uncommitted work. You don't want to commit half-finished code just to switch contexts. And you definitely don't want to lose what your agent just built.
This is exactly what git stash was made for. And once you've fixed that bug, you might need to pull that specific fix into your feature branch without merging everything else — that's git cherry-pick.
These are tactical tools. Not everyday commands, but absolutely essential when you need them.
Git Stash — Your Temporary Shelf
Stash takes your uncommitted changes (both staged and unsta
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