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How can I delete all of my Git stashes at once?

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How can I delete all of my Git stashes at once?
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How can I delete all of my Git stashes at once?

Specifically I mean, with typing in one command.
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The following command deletes all your stashes:

git stash clear

From the git documentation:

    clear

    Remove all the stashed states.

    IMPORTANT WARNING: Those states will then be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover (...).

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    why not git stash drop ? – user20358 Sep 2 '15 at 11:48
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    @user20358: Because stash drop (" Remove a single stashed state from the stash list. When no <stash> is given, it removes the latest one. (...) ") does not answer the question (" How can I delete all of my Git stashes at once? ")? – Tadeck Sep 2 '15 at 15:48
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    @Tadeck, ok, stash drop removes a single stashed state. But stash clear has this Note that those states will then be subject to pruning, and may be impossible to recover. And stash drop doesn't have that text. So one can easily think that these commands don't do the same thing and have some big differece. – Green Nov 2 '16 at 1:36 

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In addition to what accepted answer mentioned - git stash clear, to confirm if all cleared, use - git stash list – kamal Sep 20 '17 at 8:15

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    @Ryan: git help <command> is the best way to get documentation (and, it's actually pretty good). In this case, git help stash clearly show that git stash clear does the deed (this didn't stop me from coming to SO first and upvoting the answer... but that tells you more about me than git :D ) – Marco Massenzio May 31 '18 at 21:24

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There are two ways to delete a stash:

    If you no longer need a particular stash, you can delete it with: $ git stash drop <stash_id>.
    You can delete all of your stashes from the repo with: $ git stash clear.

Use both of them with caution, it maybe is difficult to revert the once deleted stashes.

Here is the reference article.
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    Closing the terminal has nothing to do with it. git isn't a daemon; it only runs when you call it. It has no idea you closed the terminal. – DylanYoung Jan 9 '19 at 13:28

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this command enables you to look all stashed changes.

git stash list

Here is the following command use it to clear all of your stashed Changes

git stash clear

Now if you want to delete one of the stashed changes from stash area

git stash drop stash@{index}   // here index will be shown after getting stash list.

    Note : git stash list enables you to get index from stash area of git.

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    Worth mentioning that at least for the integrated terminal in VSCode using Windows 10, it is git stash drop 'stash@{index}', with apostrophes. – Oriol Miró Jan 27 at 15:20

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I wanted to keep a few recent stashes, but delete everything else.

Because all stashes get renumbered when you drop one, this is actually easy to do with while. To delete all stashes older than stash@{19}:

while git stash drop 'stash@{20}'; do true; done

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answered Aug 21 '19 at 13:40
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    Does this apply to indexed values introduced in Git 2.11, where you can refer to the 3rd stash from the stash list using git stash pop 3 instead? I wanted to know if we can use the while loop and drop stashes using index values. – tom_mai78101 Oct 14 '19 at 14:35
    I love the simplicity of this, nice elegant solution! – dominic Apr 17 at 6:12

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    if you want to remove the latest stash or at any particular index -

git stash drop type_your_index

> git stash list

  stash@{0}: abc
  stash@{1}: xyz
  stash@{1}: pqr

> git stash drop 0

  Dropped refs/stash@{0}

> git stash list

  stash@{0}: xyz
  stash@{1}: pqr

    if you want to remove all the stash at once -

> git stash clear
>

> git stash list
>

Warning : Once done you can not revert back your stash
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I had another requirement like only few stash have to be removed, below code would be helpful in that case.

#!/bin/sh
for i in `seq 5 8`
do
   git stash drop stash@{$i}
done

/* will delete from 5 to 8 index*/
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answered Mar 29 '19 at 12:14
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    try for iterator in `seq 5 8`; git stash drop stash@{$iterator}; done – Chris McCowan Apr 22 '19 at 20:15 

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Note that when you drop, the remaining stashes move up 1 spot. So if you want to remove from 5 to 8, you need to either count backwards or remove stash@{5} four times. For example: for i in `seq 4`; do git stash drop 'stash@{5}'; done – warp Aug 21 '19 at 13:36

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To delete all stashes older than 40 days, use:

git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=40.days refs/stash

Add --dry-run to see which stashes are deleted.

See https://stackoverflow.com/a/44829516/946850 for an explanation and much more detail.
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