SYNOPSIS

git freeze

DESCRIPTION

git freeze works a lot like git stash, in that it stores the current changes in your working copy and index somewhere. Unlike git stash, git freeze stores those changes on your current branch. This effectively allows you to pause development of a branch, work on something else, and then come back to exactly the same working state later (by running git thaw).

git freeze will make up to 2 commits on your branch. A commit with the message FREEZE.indexed will contain all changes which you’ve added to your index (like with git add, git mv, git rm, etc.). A commit with the message FREEZE.unindexed will contain all changes which were not in your index at the time you ran git freeze (freshly modified files, new files, etc.).

EXAMPLE

$ git status --short
A  added_file
A​M added_file_with_unstaged_changes
D  deleted_file
 M modified_file
 D unstaged_deleted_file
?? unadded_file
$ git freeze
$ git status --short
$ git log -n 2 --stat
commit 182eccae8e385acba21c9ff2713e98ff4b7e17cd
Author: Robert Iannucci <iannucci@chromium.org>
Date:   Thu Mar 13 17:42:37 2014 -0700

    FREEZE.unindexed

 added_file_with_unstaged_changes | 3 ++​-
 modified_file                    | 4 +++​-
 unadded_file                     | 3 +++
 unstaged_deleted_file            | 1 -
 4 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

commit ce07bdc49a61f54e6142b4bba5cc517cf6802bd4
Author: Robert Iannucci <iannucci@chromium.org>
Date:   Thu Mar 13 17:42:37 2014 -0700

    FREEZE.indexed

 added_file                       | 3 +++
 added_file_with_unstaged_changes | 1 +
 deleted_file                     | 1 -
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
$ git thaw
$ git status --short
A  added_file
A​M added_file_with_unstaged_changes
D  deleted_file
 M modified_file
 D unstaged_deleted_file
?? unadded_file

SEE ALSO

git-thaw(1)

CHROMIUM DEPOT_TOOLS

Part of the chromium depot_tools(1) suite. These tools are meant to assist with the development of chromium and related projects. Download the tools from here.