Question

I’m trying to get info about my stash, but git is telling me that stash@{0} and stash@{1} are ambiguous. git stash list works fine, and .git/logs/refs/stash seems to have the appropriate content (not that I’m an expert on git internals).

% git stash list
stash@{0}: On master: two
stash@{1}: On master: one
% git stash show stash@{1}
fatal: ambiguous argument 'stash@1': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions

Just plain git stash show works fine. So why are the names that git stash list gives me considered ambiguous?

Answer 1

Your shell is eating your curly brackets, so while you say stash@{1}, git sees stash@1, and that makes no sense to it. Quote the argument (use git stash apply "stash@{1}" or git stash apply stash@"{1}"; quoting either way will work) or reconfigure your shell to only expand curly brackets when there is a comma between them (zsh can be configured either way; bash only expands curly brackets with a comma or range between them while other shells may behave differently).