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# Stash Everything

Running the `git stash` command will take all the changes to tracked files in the working directory and stash them away. You can tack on the `--include-untracked` flag to make sure that untracked files are also included in the stash.

You can take this a step further with the `--all` flag. This will stash everything included files that you've told git to ignore.

You probably don't want to do this. I ran this command and realized after the command hung for about 10 seconds that I had just stashed the `node_modules` directory.

See `man git-stash` for more details.