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.).

By default git freeze will only freeze up to 100MB of untracked files. See CONFIGURATION VARIABLES for more details.

EXAMPLE

$ git status --short
A  added_file
AM 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 0e48260b7ae6d82b41234fbe19ea6cb646a835de
Author: local <local@chromium.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 10 08:54:56 2014 +0000

    FREEZE.unindexed

 added_file_with_unstaged_changes | 1 +
 modified_file                    | 1 +
 unadded_file                     | 0
 unstaged_deleted_file            | 1 -
 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

commit af7eb3e39942ada944e8489e6217753771f20562
Author: local <local@chromium.org>
Date:   Thu Apr 10 08:54:56 2014 +0000

    FREEZE.indexed

 added_file                       | 1 +
 added_file_with_unstaged_changes | 1 +
 deleted_file                     | 1 -
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

$ git thaw

$ git status --short
A  added_file
AM added_file_with_unstaged_changes
D  deleted_file
 M modified_file
 D unstaged_deleted_file
?? unadded_file

CONFIGURATION VARIABLES

depot-tools.freeze-size-limit

This sets the size limit as an integer number of megabytes of untracked files that git-freeze will be willing to put in suspended animation. A 0 or negative limit disables the size-limit check entirely. 100 by default.

SEE ALSO

git-thaw(1)

CHROMIUM DEPOT_TOOLS

Part of the chromium depot_tools(7) suite. These tools are meant to assist with the development of chromium and related projects. Download the tools by checking out the git repository.