Git stash pop- needs merge unable to refresh index

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I can t pop my stash because I merged a branch which apparently conflicts with my stash and now my stash is seemingly unable to be popped   app coffee  needs merge unable to refresh index   Anyone know how to resolve this   FIXED   Turns out the actual issue was an unresolved merge conflict from the merge  NOT that the stash would cause a merge conflict   Resolution  Commit the conflicted file

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The stash has already been applied to other files    It is only app coffee that you have to merge manually  Afterwards just run      git reset    to unstage the changes and keep on hacking

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First  check git status  As the OP mentions       The actual issue was an unresolved merge conflict from the merge  NOT that the stash would cause a merge conflict    That is where git status would mention that file as being  both modified      Resolution  Commit the conflicted file      You can find a similar situation 4 days ago at the time of writing this answer  March 13th  2012  with this post      Pull is not possible because you have unmerged files       julita yulys   GNOME baobab help C  git stash pop help C scan-remote page  needs merge unable to refresh index   What you did was to fix the merge conflict  editing the right file  and committing it   See  How do I fix merge conflicts in Git    What the blog post s author did was   julita yulys   GNOME baobab help C  git reset --hard origin mallard-documentation HEAD is now at ff2e1e2 Add more steps for optional information for scanning    I e aborting the current merge completely  allowing the git stash pop to be applied  See  Aborting a merge in Git    Those are your two options

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Its much simpler than the accepted answer  You need to    Check git status and unmerged paths under it  Fix the conflicts  You can skip this step if you d rather do it later  Add all these files under unmerged paths to index using git add  lt filename gt   Now do git stash pop  If you get any conflicts these will again need to be resolved

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I was having this issue  then resolving the conflict and commiting  and doing git stash pop again was restoring the same stash again  causing the same conflict  -      What I had to do  WARNING  back up your stash first  is git stash drop to get rid of it

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git reset if you don t want to commit these changes

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You need to add app coffee to staging   Do git add app coffee and then you will be able to apply your stash  after that commit and push

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If anyone is having this issue outside of a merge conflict action  then it could be the git lock file for your project causing the issue   git reset      fatal  Unable to create   PATH TO PROJECT  git index lock   File exists  rm -f  PATH TO PROJECT  git index lock git reset git stash pop

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Here s how I solved the issue    git status  see a mix of files from a previous stash  pull  stash pop  and continued work    git stash  see the needs merge issue   git add    add the files so my work locally resolves my own merged   git stash  no error  git pull  no error   git stash pop  no error and continue working

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I have found that the best solution is to branch off your stash and do a resolution afterwards   git stash branch  lt branch-name gt   if you drop of clear your stash  you may lose your changes and you will have to recur to the reflog

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I was facing the same issue because i have done some changes in my develop branch and then want to go to the profile branch  so i have stash the changes by git stash  then in profile branch i have also done some changes and then want to come back again to the develop so i have to stash the changes again by  git stash  but when i come to develop branch and tried to git the stash changes by git stash apply  so i was getting error need merge to solve this issue first i have to check the stash list by git stash list  so it shows the list of stashes in my case there were 2 stashes the name of the stashes are displaying like this stash  0  stash  1  I have need changes from stash  1  so when i try to get it by this command git stash apply stash  1   so was getting error needs merge so now to solve this issue check the status of your files git status  so it was giving error that  quot both modified quot  so to solve this run git add    it will add the missing modified files now again check the status git status   so now there is no error now can apply stash git stash apply stash  1   you can do this process for any number of stash files

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Well  initially  we should know what caused the error to happen  then the solution will be easy  The reason have already been pointed out by the accepted answer  but it is somehow incomplete  also the solution   The problem is  one or more files had conflict s  previously  but Git sees them as unresolved  Yes  you might already edited those files and resolved the conflicts  but Git does not know about that  You should tell Git  quot Hey  there are no more conflicts from the previous merge  quot   Note that  the merge is not necessarily caused by a git merge  but also by a git stash pop  for example  Remember  git status can tell you what Git knows now  If there are some unresolved merge conflicts to Git  then it is shown in a separated Unmerged paths section  with the files marked as both modified  always    If you have noticed  this section is between two staged and unstaged sections  From this  I personally understand that   quot Unmerged paths are those you should either move into staged or unstaged areas  as Git can work only with these two areas quot   So  to tell Git the conflicts have been resolved  you should either move these changes to staged or unstaged areas  In recent versions of Git  when you do a git status  it tells you how  woah  You should ask yourself how you haven t seen this yet      git status     Unmerged paths     use  quot git restore --staged  lt file gt     quot  to unstage     use  quot git add  lt file gt     quot  to mark resolution          both modified    path to file txt      So  to stage it  and maybe commit it     git add path to file txt  And to make it unstaged  e g  you don t want to commit it now     git restore --staged path to file txt  Note  Forgetting to write --staged option possibly could spawn a super-hungry dragon to eat your past two days  in the case of not using a good text-editor or IDE  Note  While git restore command is experimental yet  it should be stable enough to be used  thanks to a comment by  VonC  refer to it for more details on that

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