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# Pick Specific Changes To Stash

If you run `git stash`, all of the changes to tracked files on the working tree will be put into a commit-like entity in the stash list.

If you want to be a bit choosier about what gets saved during a stash, you can include the `--patch` flag.

> With --patch, you can interactively select hunks from the diff between HEAD and the working tree to be stashed.

```bash
$ git stash --patch
```

Once in the interactive mode initiated by `--patch`, you'll be presented with a change of changes and some options. You hit `y` for "yes, include this" and `n` for "no, don't include that". And then there are some more advanced options which you can read about in the *Interactive Mode* section of `git-add`'s man page.

See `man git-stash` for more details.