Application developers can remove and save changes locally to apply them later.

Before you begin

Important: You've landed at the legacy version of Studio, which will be supported until the Australia release in Q1 2026. Try building and editing apps in the new version of ServiceNow Studio instead. For more information, see Building applications with ServiceNow Studio.
  • Role required: admin
  • Link an application to source control
  • Change one or more application files

About this task

Stashing changes removes them from the current application and saves them for a developer to later apply or delete.

Procedure

  1. From Studio, navigate to Source Control > Stash Local Changes.
    The system displays a list of locally changed files.
  2. Enter your description.
  3. Click Stash Local Changes.
    The system saves the current changes and displays a success message.
    Stash change dialog
    Note: In the San Diego release onward, user information is preserved with each update during stashing. When the stash is applied, each update is restored in the respective user's in-progress local update set.

What to do next

To learn more see Getting started with credentials