How to move the ignored files too in a checkout?

Question

I am working on a branch. There are some ignored files like for example config files and installed composer/bower packages.

If I checkout to an another branch, the ignored files are still there.

I would like to remove them if I check out an other branch, but I would like to get them back, if I checkout the old branch again, to continue the work on it.

How is it possible?

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The installed composer packages are not part of the repo, only the composer.json, which defines the dependencies. I do not want to reinstall the packages every time I checkout the branch

The .env is also not part of the repo. It contains the database location, username and password. Which is different on each development environment.

Answer 1

You can use: git stash --include-untracked. This will create a stash with all the ignored files and then clean them up.

To recover them do: git stash pop. (This will remove the stashed state form the stash list).

If you want to keep the stashed state on the stash list, you can use: git stash apply

For more complete information about the command check git-stash