unwanted interaction of git stash and cherry-pick --abort

Dear git maintainers,

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

git init-db git commit --allow-empty # needed for git stash later echo a > a echo b > b git add a b # some arbitrary files with content git stash git cherry-pick 170bbe5 # any commit that cannot be applied, e.g. the initial commit here git cherry-pick --abort

What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

That a and b are still there or I am somehow informed that the files a and b would get lost.

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)

The files a and b are lost.

What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?

Loss of data.

Anything else you want to add:

Everything fine, only the content of a and b is lost ;(

[System Info] git version: git version 2.39.5 cpu: x86_64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh uname: Linux 5.10.0-32-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.223-1 (2024-08-10) x86_64 compiler info: gnuc: 12.2 libc info: glibc: 2.36 $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh

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