Undo git stash pop that results in merge conflict

Question

I began making changes to my codebase  not realizing I was on an old topic branch  To transfer them  I wanted to stash them and then apply them to a new branch off of master  I used git stash pop to transfer work-in-progress changes to this new branch  forgetting that I hadn t pulled new changes into master before creating the new branch  This resulted in a bunch of merge conflicts and loss of a clean stash of my changes  since I used pop    Once I recreate the new branch correctly  how I can I recover my stashed changes to apply them properly

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As it turns out  Git is smart enough not to drop a stash if it doesn t apply cleanly  I was able to get to the desired state with the following steps    To unstage the merge conflicts  git reset HEAD    note the trailing dot  To save the conflicted merge  just in case   git stash To return to master  git checkout master To pull latest changes  git fetch upstream  git merge upstream master To correct my new branch  git checkout new-branch  git rebase master To apply the correct stashed changes  now 2nd on the stack   git stash apply stash  1

User · Answer

git checkout -f   must work  if your previous state is clean

User · Answer

Instructions here are a little complicated so I m going to offer something more straightforward    git reset HEAD --hard Abandon all changes to the current branch     Perform intermediary work as necessary git stash pop Re-pop the stash again at a later date when you re ready

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Luckily git stash pop does not change the stash in the case of a conflict   So nothing  to worry about  just clean up your code and try it again   Say your codebase was clean before  you could go back to that state with  git checkout -f Then do the stuff you forgot  e g  git merge missing-branch After that just fire git stash pop again and you get the same stash  that conflicted before   Keep in mind  The stash is safe  however  uncommitted changes in the working directory are of course not  They can get messed up

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