Undoing accidental git stash pop
From git stash --help
Recovering stashes that were cleared/dropped erroneously
If you mistakenly drop or clear stashes, they cannot be recovered through the normal safety mechanisms. However, you can try the
following incantation to get a list of stashes that are still in your repository, but not reachable any more:
git fsck --unreachable |
grep commit | cut -d\ -f3 |
xargs git log --merges --no-walk --grep=WIP
This helped me better than the accepted answer with the same scenario.
If your merge was not too complicated another option would be to:
- Move all the changes including the merge changes back to stash using "git stash"
- Run the merge again and commit your changes (without the changes from the dropped stash)
- Run a "git stash pop" which should ignore all the changes from your previous merge since the files are identical now.
After that you are left with only the changes from the stash you dropped too early.
Try using How to recover a dropped stash in Git? to find the stash you popped. I think there are always two commits for a stash, since it preserves the index and the working copy (so often the index commit will be empty). Then git show
them to see the diff and use patch -R
to unapply them.