Git stash: “Cannot apply to a dirty working tree, please stage your changes”

Question

I am trying to apply changes I stashed earlier with git stash pop and get the message:

Cannot apply to a dirty working tree, please stage your c         


        

Answer 1

You can apply a stash to a "dirty" tree by doing a git add to stage any changes you've made, thus cleaning up the tree. Then you can git stash pop and apply the stashed changes, no problem.