Git stash: “Cannot apply to a dirty working tree, please stage your changes”

Question

I am trying to apply changes I stashed earlier with git stash pop and get the message:

Cannot apply to a dirty working tree, please stage your c         


        

Answer 1

None of these answers actually work if you find yourself in this situation as I did today. Regardless of how many git reset --hard's I did, it got me nowhere. My answer (not official by any means was):

1. Figure out the stash's hash use git reflog --all
2. Merge that hash with the branch you're interested in