lost git stash changes

Question

So here\'s what happened: I was on a branch \'A\' and did a Git stash on that branch. Then I switched to another branch \'B\'. I navigated back to Branch \'A\' but did not d

Answer 1

Stashes should be viewable via

git stash list

or

gitk --all

also, git stash does not stash untracked files. If you did this and subsequently did a git checkout --force of another branch to overwrite untracked files with tracked ones in another branch, you have lost that content. The recommended way to stash is with

git stash -u

This will prevent losses of this type.