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

Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> writes:

If you kill a program in the middle, bad things can happen ;-)

In this case, however, recovery is very easy.

Because you know that a stash entry was created that records the local changes, if you want to finish "git stash push" (in other words, if you wish you didn't kill "git stash push" in the middle), you can "git reset --hard" yourself, because by definition, after "git stash push" records all the local changes, it would have cleared any and all local changes. Or if you truly regret you started "git stash push" in the first place, then you can still "git reset --hard" and then "git stash pop". The first step will let the "git stash push" to "finish", and then popping the local changes recorded in there will restore the state before you started running "git stash push".