git stash ; git stash pop unstages all staged changes

From

MHMartin Häcker <mhaecker@schwarz-online.org>

Date

Jan 30, 2018, 10:05 UTC

Message-ID

<454AAA27-B8D3-47F9-8E49-EC5415A26FCE@schwarz-online.org>

Hi there,

I just lost quite some work, because `git stash; git stash pop` doesn’t seem to understand the concept of the index correctly.

To reproduce:

— snip —
dwt@crest ~/Desktop % mkdir test
dwt@crest ~/Desktop % cd test
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test % git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/dwt/Desktop/test/.git/
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % touch foo
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git add foo
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git commit -m "initial commit"
[master (root-commit) 893b428] initial commit
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 foo
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % echo "bar" >> foo
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   foo

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git add foo
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

	modified:   foo

diff --git a/foo b/foo
index 5716ca5..e2994c5 100644
--- a/foo
+++ b/foo
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 bar
+baz
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git reset HEAD <file>..." to unstage)

	modified:   foo

Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   foo

dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git stash
Saved working directory and index state WIP on master: 893b428 initial commit
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git stash pop
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

	modified:   foo

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
Dropped refs/stash@{0} (7a8d892120c0a231a529222dabeec1fd3594f514)
dwt@crest ~/Desktop/test (git)-[master] % git diff
diff --git a/foo b/foo
index e69de29..e2994c5 100644
--- a/foo
+++ b/foo
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bar
+baz

— snap —

What git stash does get right is that it does remove everything that is stashed from the current state of the repo, but what it doesn’t get right is restoring that state fatefully in `git stash pop`.

As a user, I would expect that `git stash pop` undoes the change that `git stash` inflicted.

Best Regards,
Martin Häcker