However, it is possible to alter this behavior and stash untracked files with the right git stash save and push options. The trick is to use the --include-untracked option or for brevity, the -u alias ...

I'm fairly new to git and most of my interaction with it has been via the IntelliJ Idea IDE. But sometimes I use a command line. In one directory I did "git init", "git add files", and "git commit".