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

You should be using

git stash save

and not

git stash create

because this creates a stash (which is a regular commit object) and return its object name, without storing it anywhere in the ref namespace. Hence won't be accessible with stash apply.

Use git stash save "some comment" is used when you have unstaged changes you wanna replicate/move onto another branch

Use git stash apply stash@{0} (assuming your saved stash index is 0) when you want your saved(stashed) changes to reflect on your current branch

you can always use git stash list to check all you stash indexes

and use git stash drop stash@{0} (assuming your saved stash index is 0 and you wanna delete it) to delete a particular stash.