Re: Why is pushing to stash not allowed without an initial commit?

> On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 08:51:29PM +0530, Abhijeet Sonar wrote:
>> I see that the stash commit has two parents: the initial commit and the
>> commit that actually holds the files that were stashed.
>>
>> If git were to allow a stash entry with no initial commit, it would have to
>> create a stash commit with only one parent (i.e. the commit labeled with
>> 'index on <branch>'). I wonder if there is a reason this would be bad and
>> therefore not allowed?
>
> Right, each stash entry has two parents:
>
>   - The first parent is the state of HEAD in your repository when you
>     created the stash entry,
>
>   - The second parent is the state of the index at the same point
>
> So there would be no reasonable value to substitute in for the first
> parent in the case where your repository does not yet have any
> commits.