Re: Can not list stash (git version 2.30.0)

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Apr 7, 2021, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID: <YG4MgBMJGBbIyGDJ@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <1851413381.20210407204938@yandex.ru>

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:49:38PM +0300, Eugen Konkov wrote:

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> I am in progress of rebasing
> 
> ~/e/Auth/Mojolicious/Plugin $ git rebase aa3376
> Created autostash: 4018bc7
> hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file...
> 
> 
> while I am in editor I switched to different console to view created autostash:
> 
> ~/e/Auth $ git stash list
> 
> and see nothing
> 
> but can view stash by its id:
> ~/e/Auth $ git show 4018bc7
> commit 4018bc7bc870eb37aa35f40a0f612ca55a586045
> Merge: a790392 674e39f
> .....

If you run with GIT_TRACE=1, you can see that the autostash feature uses "git stash create" and not "git stash push". That creates the stash commit but _doesn't_ push it onto the stash list.

So it's working as intended. The rationale comes from the very first commit adding autostash, 587947750b (rebase: implement --[no-]autostash and rebase.autostash, 2013-05-12), which says:

    The advantage of this approach is that we do not affect the normal
    stash's reflogs, making the autostash invisible to the end-user.  This
    means that you can use 'git stash' during a rebase as usual.

-Peff