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Delete All Stashes in Git: A Comprehensive Guide

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🧑‍💻 New to Git or LabEx? We recommend starting with the Quick Start with Git course.

In Git, stashes are used to temporarily save changes that are not yet ready to be committed. However, sometimes you may want to delete all stashes to start fresh. In this challenge, you will learn how to delete all stashes in a Git repository.

Delete All Stashes

You have been working on a project in a Git repository and have created multiple stashes to save your changes. Now, you want to delete all stashes to start fresh. However, you are not sure how to do it.

Tasks

To complete this challenge, you will use the Git repository named https://github.com/labex-labs/git-playground.

  1. Navigate to the repository directory.
  2. See the current stash.
  3. Delete all stashes at once.
  4. Verify that all stashes have been deleted.

The stashes you just deleted should no longer be there.

Summary

In this challenge, you learned how to delete all stashes in a Git repository using the command git stash clear. This can be useful when you want to start fresh and remove all temporary changes that are not yet ready to be committed.


🚀 Practice Now: Delete All Stashes


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