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Staging & Committing

The Git panel’s CHANGES area covers the everyday commit loop: review changes, stage, discard, stash, and commit with a message.

Staging and unstaging

  • Unstaged changes are listed under CHANGES, each file tagged with a status badge — M modified, A added, D deleted, ? untracked, ! conflict (submodule rows carry an extra SUB tag);
  • Hovering a row reveals inline action buttons: + stages an unstaged file, − unstages a staged one, and × on an unstaged row discards it; the Stage All Changes / Unstage All Changes buttons in the section headers handle everything at once;
  • Ctrl-click toggles files into a multi-selection and Shift-click selects a range — an action button then applies to every selected file;
  • Clicking a file name opens its diff so you can review the change before deciding;
  • Right-clicking a file offers View File History, Stash This File, Copy Full Path / Copy Relative Path, Reveal in File Explorer, and a cd shortcut that jumps the terminal to the file’s folder.
The STAGED CHANGES section — staged files with per-row Unstage buttons

Committing

  1. Stage what should go in;
  2. Type a message in the commit box (Ctrl+Enter commits) or click the AI button to generate one (see LLM Assistance);
  3. Click Commit.
The commit box — message input with the AI generate button

After committing, hover the history header — the bar with the branch name above the commit history — and Fetch, Pull, and Push buttons fade in on its right. Push sends the current branch to its upstream right away; for options such as Force with lease, use the branch list’s push dialog instead (see Push, Checkout & More).

Hovering the history header reveals the Fetch, Pull, and Push buttons

Stashing

  • The archive button in the CHANGES header opens the Stash All Changes dialog, where an optional message describes the stash;
  • Right-clicking selected unstaged files offers Stash This File (or Stash <n> Selected Files for a multi-selection) to stash just those paths — submodule rows are excluded;
  • Stashes collect under STASHES as WIP on <branch> entries; expanding one lists the files it captured, and clicking a file shows its diff;
  • Hovering a stash row shows Apply (restore and keep), Pop (apply and remove), and Drop (remove without applying) — Pop and Drop ask for confirmation first, and the right-click menu adds View Diff;
  • The STASHES section stays hidden while the stash list is empty.
The Stash All Changes dialog with its optional message The STASHES section — a stash expanded to its files, with Apply, Pop, and Drop buttons Pop applies the stash and removes it from the list after a confirmation

Discarding

Discard Changes on an unstaged file throws away all uncommitted changes in it — there is a confirmation dialog and the action cannot be undone.

A commit only includes staged content; unstaged changes stay in the working tree.

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