`git status` always shows you some of three things: files not tracked by git, tracked files with modifications that are not staged, and tracked files with modif

`git status` always shows you some of three things: files not tracked by git, tracked files with modifications that are not staged, and tracked files with modifications that are staged. You can stash tracked files with modifications, or tracked files without modifications separately! Scenario: I've staged a couple files for a commit I'm preparing, but I see that there's an unrelated change in the unstaged files that I want to do in a commit that should come first. So I stash everything I've staged. I do not stash what I haven't staged! Now I can create that new commit, and pop the stash later to come back to the commit I wanted to originally write.