Eclipse (Neon) & EGit: how to (re-)apply stashed changes? Where is the functionality hiding?

Question

I am using Eclipse 4.6 (Neon) and before I switched to another branch I have stashed some changes I had been working on. My initial intention was to re-apply these changes to the other branch, something that - according to the Git help - should be possible. But then I was unable to find any stashing-related functionality anywhere. How/where is that hidden? I thus switched back to the branch from where I had stashed my changes. But here again: I can't find any menu-entry or button or whatever to re-apply my staged changes! Where have these changes gone to? How to I restore the branch to the stashed state?

I have searched SO and there are a few entries mentioning that stashing and stashed changes are accessible via the Team-menu, but not so. There is no such entry in the Team menu!

Solution

Open Git Perspective -> Git Repositories View -> Expand your repository -> Stashed Commits -> select your stash -> right click and Apply Stashed Changes.

Comments

[Sancao]

How did you stash changes in the first place if it's not in the UI?

[mmo]

Stashing of uncommitted changes to the current branch is offered, if one selects to check out a different branch. So, there, one can select it. In the meantime I found that unstashing (or re-applying) those stashed changes is offered in the Package Explorer view (not - as one would expect - in any of the Git-related views). I tried that twice by now, but both attempts failed. So - in essence: my saved/stashed changes were lost. :-( I'll report again with the precise error msg. once I try that again.

[mmo]

Am I correct if I deduct from that response that there is no way to trigger these same steps via the Egit GUI?

[Marit]

Tbh I don't know, I don't use Eclipse.