I saw this issue a couple times in my setup, and always wondered why nobody else seemed to be hit by this. When I finally found/made some time to investigate, I found out that it really requires a specific setup: I have many worktrees connected to my main git.git clone, often run inside t/ and I do stash quite often (now that git stash's performance is a joy on Windows). Johannes Schindelin (1): stash apply: report status correctly even in a worktree's subdirectory builtin/stash.c | 2 ++ t/t3908-stash-in-worktree.sh | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100755 t/t3908-stash-in-worktree.sh base-commit: 4c86140027f4a0d2caaa3ab4bd8bfc5ce3c11c8a Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-354%2Fdscho%2Fapply-stash-in-subdirectory-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-354/dscho/apply-stash-in-subdirectory-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/354 -- gitgitgadget