STG-SPILL(1)

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version 2.7.0 · 8 versions
, in opensuse-leap 16.0

🌸 STG-SPILL(1) 🌸

okay so bestie, welcome to the StGit Manual page for stg-spill — literally one of the cutest little commands in the whole suite 💅

✨ NAME ✨

stg-spill — spill changes from the topmost patch 🫗

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

stg spill [OPTIONS] [path]...

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So here's the vibe: stg spill takes changes from the topmost patch and spills them out. The changes get removed from the patch, but — and this is the iconic part — they stay in the index and worktree. Nothing is lost, it's just relocated 💖

Why would you even want that? Because spilling a patch is lowkey useful for reselecting the files/hunks that end up included in the patch. Like, you dump everything out, then carefully pick what goes back in. Curated. Main character energy 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -a <note>, --annotate=<note> — drops a little note into the patch log entry. annotate your patch, bestie, future you will thank you 🎀
  • -r, --reset — also resets the index, so the patch's changes only remain in the worktree. Fr fr: without this option, the patch's changes are in both the index and worktree. With it, index says "not me" 🙈
  • --committer-date-is-author-date — instead of using the current time as the committer date, use the author date of the commit as the committer date. same energy, zero clock drama ⭐

✨ STGIT ✨

it's part of the StGit suite — see stg(1) for the whole fam 🫶

quick vibe check: spilling removes the changes from the patch, but they remain in the index and worktree — so don't panic, nothing vanished, it's just hanging out elsewhere ✨

mwah, that's the page 💋 this was served fresh from StGit 2.7.0, dated 10/17/2026 — see you in the next manpage, bestie 🌈🦋

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