# After stash pop, refs/stash become 40 zeroes

3 messages from 2014-01-15 to 2014-01-15. Participants: 乙酸鋰, Jeff King.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/35659

## 乙酸鋰, 2014-01-15 05:56

Subject: After stash pop, refs/stash become 40 zeroes
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Hi,

what are the possible causes of this?
After stash pop, refs/stash becomes 40 zeroes.
This is the only stash, so refs/stash should be deleted after pop.
However, it becomes 40 zeroes.

git 1.8.x

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## 乙酸鋰, 2014-01-15 06:00

Subject: Re: After stash pop, refs/stash become 40 zeroes
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Also, logs/refs/stash becomes empty (0 bytes of file size) after pop.

2014/1/15 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> what are the possible causes of this?
> After stash pop, refs/stash becomes 40 zeroes.
> This is the only stash, so refs/stash should be deleted after pop.
> However, it becomes 40 zeroes.
>
> git 1.8.x

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## Jeff King, 2014-01-15 08:51

Subject: Re: After stash pop, refs/stash become 40 zeroes
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:56:52PM +0800, 乙酸鋰 wrote:

> what are the possible causes of this?
> After stash pop, refs/stash becomes 40 zeroes.
> This is the only stash, so refs/stash should be deleted after pop.
> However, it becomes 40 zeroes.
> 
> git 1.8.x

I can't reproduce the problem here. Running this:

  git init -q repo && cd repo
  echo content >file && git add file && git commit -qm file
  echo more >>file

  echo "==> stashed"
  git stash -q
  ls -l .git/refs/stash .git/logs/refs/stash
  git rev-parse --verify refs/stash

  echo "==> popped"
  git stash pop -q
  ls -l .git/refs/stash .git/logs/refs/stash
  git rev-parse --verify refs/stash

yields:

  ==> stashed
  -rw-r--r-- 1 peff peff 153 Jan 15 03:49 .git/logs/refs/stash
  -rw-r--r-- 1 peff peff  41 Jan 15 03:49 .git/refs/stash
  7fb40812ac4aaf7fa31e584863fc52c4b4a67aa0
  ==> popped
  ls: cannot access .git/refs/stash: No such file or directory
  ls: cannot access .git/logs/refs/stash: No such file or directory
  fatal: Needed a single revision

Does running it reproduce the problem for you? If it does, can you be
more specific about your git version?  If it does not, can you show what
you are doing differently to reproduce?

-Peff

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