How to use `git stash --patch` together with `git stash save`

Question

I want to use:

git stash save "Message describing stash"

…but I also want to stash only some of my working directory, using:

git stash --patch

How can I create a stash that both has a message, and includes only selected changes?

Answer 1

Simply combine the two commands together like so:

git stash save --patch "Message describing stash"

This will produce the desired behavior of creating a stash using the hunk-staging interface that also has a message visible in git stash list.

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(Figured this out by just trying it, and in retrospect it feels pretty obvious. Still, something about it was non-obvious enough to cause me to look it up, so I'm leaving this here for anyone else in the same boat. I think maybe seeing save as a subcommand of stash rather than an option (like --save) may have been what threw me off—I'd likely guess that a hypothetical --save option could be combined with --patch, but implicitly I think seeing save without hyphens led me to a question like, "does the --patch option also work with the the save subcommand?" And… I seem to have a quick impulse to check with the internet before trying something new in git. )