Best use case to use / apply stash: I have made some change in the pom.xml which are local to my dev box, whenever I take the pull, they gets washed away (over written) by the remote version. Now I have to put entire thing again after taking pull which consumes lot of time.
Solution – apply stash : Instead of doing the commit I create the local changes stash and apply them whenever I need those changes. I can discart them before taking the pull and apply them to get my local changes again.
I will upload a you tube video soon 
to explain this better.
Detailed explanation :
Often, when you’ve been working on part of your project, things are in a messy state and you want to switch branches for a bit to work on something else. The problem is, you don’t want to do a commit of half-done work just so you can get back to this point later. The answer to this issue is the git stashcommand.
Stashing takes the dirty state of your working directory — that is, your modified tracked files and staged changes — and saves it on a stack of unfinished changes that you can reapply at any time.
To demonstrate, you’ll go into your project and start working on a couple of files and possibly stage one of the changes. If you run git status, you can see your dirty state:
$ git status
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
# (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
# modified: index.html
#
# Changes not staged for commit:
# (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#
# modified: lib/simplegit.rb
#
Now you want to switch branches, but you don’t want to commit what you’ve been working on yet; so you’ll
stash the changes. To push a new stash onto your stack, run git stash:
$ git stash
Saved working directory and index state \
"WIP on master: 049d078 added the index file"
HEAD is now at 049d078 added the index file
(To restore them type "git stash apply")
Your working directory is clean:
$ git status
# On branch master
nothing to commit, working directory clean
At this point, you can easily switch branches and do work elsewhere; your changes are stored on your stack. To see which stashes you’ve stored, you can use git stash list:
$ git stash list
stash@{0}: WIP on master: 049d078 added the index file
stash@{1}: WIP on master: c264051 Revert "added file_size"
stash@{2}: WIP on master: 21d80a5 added number to log
In this case, two stashes were done previously, so you have access to three different stashed works.
You can reapply the one you just stashed by using the command shown in the help output of the original stash command: git stash apply. If you want to apply one of the older stashes, you can specify it by naming it, like this: git stash apply stash@{2}. If you don’t specify a stash, Git assumes the most recent stash and tries to apply it:
$ git stash apply
# On branch master
# Changes not staged for commit:
# (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#
# modified: index.html
# modified: lib/simplegit.rb
#
You can see that Git re-modifies the files you uncommitted when you saved the stash.
In this case, you had a clean working directory when you tried to apply the stash, and you tried to apply it on the same branch you saved it from; but having a clean working directory and applying it on the same branch aren’t necessary to successfully apply a stash. You can save a stash on one branch, switch to another branch later, and try to reapply the changes. You can also have modified and uncommitted files in your working directory when you apply a stash — Git gives you merge conflicts if anything no longer applies cleanly.
The changes to your files were reapplied, but the file you staged before wasn’t restaged. To do that, you must run the git stash apply command with a --index option to tell the command to try to reapply the staged changes. If you had run that instead, you’d have gotten back to your original position:
$ git stash apply --index
# On branch master
# Changes to be committed:
# (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)
#
# modified: index.html
#
# Changes not staged for commit:
# (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
#
# modified: lib/simplegit.rb
#
The apply option only tries to apply the stashed work — you continue to have it on your stack.
To remove it, you can run git stash drop with the name of the stash to remove:
$ git stash list
stash@{0}: WIP on master: 049d078 added the index file
stash@{1}: WIP on master: c264051 Revert "added file_size"
stash@{2}: WIP on master: 21d80a5 added number to log
$ git stash drop stash@{0}
Dropped stash@{0} (364e91f3f268f0900bc3ee613f9f733e82aaed43)
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