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You have no files to stash

Error message

You have no files to stash

What it means

Thrown from the stash menu's 'stash all changes' item when IsWorkingTreeDirtyExceptSubmodules() is false — the working tree has no modifications (ignoring submodule dirt, which the parent repo cannot stash anyway). 'git stash' with nothing to stash fails or is a no-op, so lazygit pre-checks and reports it in friendlier terms.

Source

Thrown at pkg/gui/controllers/files_controller.go:1278

func (self *FilesController) switchToMerge() error {
	file := self.getSelectedFile()
	if file == nil {
		return nil
	}

	return self.c.Helpers().MergeConflicts.SwitchToMerge(file)
}

func (self *FilesController) createStashMenu() error {
	return self.c.Menu(types.CreateMenuOptions{
		Title: self.c.Tr.StashOptions,
		Items: []*types.MenuItem{
			{
				Label: self.c.Tr.StashAllChanges,
				OnPress: func() error {
					if !self.c.Helpers().WorkingTree.IsWorkingTreeDirtyExceptSubmodules() {
						return errors.New(self.c.Tr.NoFilesToStash)
					}
					return self.handleStashSave(self.c.Git().Stash.Push, self.c.Tr.Actions.StashAllChanges)
				},
				Keys: menuKey('a'),
			},
			{
				Label: self.c.Tr.StashAllChangesKeepIndex,
				OnPress: func() error {
					if !self.c.Helpers().WorkingTree.IsWorkingTreeDirtyExceptSubmodules() {
						return errors.New(self.c.Tr.NoFilesToStash)
					}
					// if there are no staged files it behaves the same as Stash.Save
					return self.handleStashSave(self.c.Git().Stash.StashAndKeepIndex, self.c.Tr.Actions.StashAllChangesKeepIndex)
				},
				Keys: menuKey('i'),
			},
			{
				Label: self.c.Tr.StashIncludeUntrackedChanges,

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Solutions

1. Nothing to do — the tree is clean; dismiss the message
2. If you expected changes, refresh the files panel ('r') in case the model is stale
3. If the changes are only inside a submodule, enter the submodule and stash there

// Check dirtiness (excluding submodules) before stashing:
if !workingTree.IsWorkingTreeDirtyExceptSubmodules() {
    return errors.New("nothing to stash")
}

When it happens

Trigger: Opening the stash menu ('s' in the files panel, or the stash keybinding) and selecting 'stash all changes' with a clean working tree.

Common situations: Pressing stash right after committing everything, or in a freshly cloned repo; also when the only 'dirt' is inside submodules, which does not count.

Related errors

• You have no tracked/staged files to stash
• No files staged
• You have no tracked/staged files to stash
• Git version must be at least %s. Please upgrade your git ver
• Lazygit does not support bare repos.

AI-assisted analysis of jesseduffield/lazygit@c477a2959b (2026-08-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/151a61a3281d1ff0. Report an issue: GitHub.