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

1 messages from 2025-04-20 to 2025-04-20. Participants: Markus Raab.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/63315

## Markus Raab, 2025-04-20 13:18

Subject: unwanted interaction of git stash and cherry-pick --abort
Message-ID: <13ce78d9-9afc-4bde-8c52-bbbae80cd707@markus-raab.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/13ce78d9-9afc-4bde-8c52-bbbae80cd707%40markus-raab.org

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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 stash pop
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


[Enabled Hooks]

-- 
Best regards,
Markus Raab


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