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

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

Specifically I mean, with typing in one command.

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 (...).

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} # Index will be shown after getting stash list

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

There are two ways to delete a stash:

1. If you no longer need a particular stash, you can delete it with: $ git stash drop <stash_id>.
2. 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.

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

Clear all stashes at once

    git stash clear

List all stashes

    git stash list

delete specific stash

    git stash drop stash@{index}

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.

> 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

If you just want to clear the latest stash or even you created a stash with git stash create then you should simply use

git stash drop

but if you want to clear all the git stashes of the current git repository then you can use

git stash clear

WARNING: Those states will then be subject to pruning(knock off), and maybe impossible to recover

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*/

If you are working with VSCode, the 1.64 (Jan. 2022) will include git stash clear in its commands.

See issue 123375 and commit 302c41c:

> "command": "git.stashDropAll",

Clear all stash from the list: git stash clear

Clear particular index from the list: git stash drop index