Question

If I create a commit with git stash create whatever I get a hash of the commit back, but I can’t find that commit hash with git reflog.

git log stash doesn’t work either, not does git stash list.

How can I list the commits I create using git stash create?

Answer 1

If you use the script in this answer, you can then do git stash list.

#!/bin/sh
#
# git-stash-push
# Push working tree onto the stash without modifying working tree.
# First argument (optional) is the stash message.
if [ -n "$1" ]; then
        git update-ref -m "$1" refs/stash "$(git stash create \"$1\")"
else
        HASH=`git stash create`
        MESSAGE=`git --no-pager log -1 --pretty="tformat:%-s" "$HASH"`
        git update-ref -m "$MESSAGE" refs/stash "$HASH"
fi

Then you may actually want to get that commit back at some point. To do this, you can list the stashes using git stash list which gives you something like this (remember, these can be dumb commit messages):

stash@{0}: WTF? Nothing is working
stash@{1}: it's all working perfectlY!
stash@{2}: blah2

Then you can restore, say, blah2 by running:

 git stash pop stash@{2}

or as @Eliot points out, you can use this to not destroy your stash:

 git stash apply stash@{2}