While a 'git stash show stash^{/quuxery}' works just fine, a 'git stash pop stash^{/quuxery}' complains with: 'stash^{/quuxery} is not a stash reference'. This confusing behavior arises from the differences in logic that 'show' and 'pop' internally employ to validate the specified ref. Document this bug by adding a failing testcase for it. Signed-off-by: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@xxxxxxxxx> --- So if you look at git-stash.sh:377, you'll notice that it's doing a the shell substitution "${REV%@*}" to figure out whether the stash ref is a valid ref. This hacky myopic design has to be done away with immediately, and we should really compare the SHA-1 hex of the specified ref with those in the stash reflog. The only reason I haven't written a fix yet is because I'm not sure why you need this convoluted IS_STASH_LIKE and IS_STASH_REF logic in the first place. Can someone enlighten me as to what is going on? t/t3903-stash.sh | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/t/t3903-stash.sh b/t/t3903-stash.sh index 5dfbda7..04ba983 100755 --- a/t/t3903-stash.sh +++ b/t/t3903-stash.sh @@ -583,6 +583,15 @@ test_expect_success 'invalid ref of the form stash@{n}, n >= N' ' git stash drop ' +test_expect_failure 'valid ref of the form stash^{/message}' ' + git stash clear && + echo bar > file && + git add file && + git stash save "quuxery" && + git stash show stash^{/quuxery} && + git stash pop stash^{/quuxery} +' + test_expect_success 'stash branch should not drop the stash if the branch exists' ' git stash clear && echo foo >file && -- 1.8.2.1.390.g924f6c3.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html