Repository is not clean. Please commit or stash any changes before updating In Angular 8

Question

Error

Repository is not clean. Please commit or stash any changes before updating

when i have updated from version 7 to Angular 8.

Answer 1

I faced the same issue, I resolved using the below command

git stash save --include-untracked

Answer 2

First, Check if there are any changes in your code that haven't pushed to git if yes push them, then close the old instance(cmd) and open a new instance of cmd then run the command. This worked for me, Thanks

Answer 3

I have problem commit and I did the commit all .

ng update @angular/core @angular/cli

Answer 4

It's a bug in Angular 8

you can work around it by using:

ng update @angular/cli @angular/core --allow-dirty

Answer 5

in my case, this was due to a node_modules folder not being excluded by the .gitignore. once added, this error no longer appeared

Answer 6

I've had the same issue. It's a common bug in Angular 8. Simply you can use dirty commands to bypass the repo check, such as (if u really need to bypass this, follow force commands)

ng update @angular/cli @angular/core --allow-dirty or
ng update @angular/cli @angular/core --allow-dirty --force

but, I didn't do that. I followed following steps...

first of all double check whether you are commited all the changes before the update.then keep a copy of the project to the same location and commit the copy also to the Git. then run following command from the original project directory

ng update @angular/core@8 @angular/cli@8

afterwards u can delete the copy. This worked for me! thank you!