Re: 'git stash push' isn't atomic when Ctrl-C is pressed

> On Tue, Jan 25 2022, Yuri wrote:
>
>> Ctrl-C was pressed in the middle. git creates the stash record and
>> didn't update the files.
>>
>>
>> Expected behavior: Ctrl-C should cleanly roll back the operation.
>
> Yes, you're right. It really should be fixed.
>
> It's a known issue with builtin/stash.c being written in C, but really
> only still being a faithful conversion of the code we had in a
> git-stash.sh shellscript until relatively recently.
>
> (No fault of those doing the conversion, that's always the logical first
> step).
>
> So it modifies various refs, reflogs etc., but does so mostly via
> shelling out to other git commands, whereas it really should be moved to
> using the ref transaction API.
>
> Ig you or anyone else is interested in would be a most welcome project
> to work on…