How to delete a stash created with git stash create?

Question

Git stash seems to do a lot of what I want, except that it is a little hard to script, as the if you have no changes, then git stash; git stash pop will do some

Answer 1

git stash drop takes no parameter - which drops the top stash - or a stash reference which looks like: stash@{n} which n nominates which stash to drop. You can't pass a commit id to git stash drop.

git stash drop            # drop top hash, stash@{0}
git stash drop stash@{n}  # drop specific stash - see git stash list

Dropping a stash will change the stash@{n} designations of all stashes further down the stack.

I'm not sure why you think need to drop a stash because if you are using stash create a stash entry isn't created for your "stash" so there isn't anything to drop.