# git-freeze(1) Manual Page

## NAME

git-freeze - Freeze all changes on a branch (indexed and unindexed).

## 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 42c38320f46c6bc9a8aba7f15b41971e5f1db75b
    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 5e0079a0fd55960682c389e71e0283594a80c02b
    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 from here.