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humkins
humkins

Reputation: 10677

What does "Keep Index" option of Git stash dialog in Intellij IDEA do?

It is said in IDEA documentation

Select this check box to have IntelliJ IDEA bring the changes staged in the index to your working tree for examination and testing.

Can somebody please explain what does this mean?

Upvotes: 46

Views: 23828

Answers (1)

phaze0
phaze0

Reputation: 2008

This determines if the stash is created with the git --keep-index flag.

From GIT docs:

If the --keep-index option is used, all changes already added to the index are left intact.

So in other words, any files you've added to git will also remain outside of the stash when you create it. Whereas normally newly added files would be removed after stashing. (See this question for a more indepth description of where the index is.)

Upvotes: 52

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