Change Git stash message [duplicate]

Question

I have a stash saved for the future that I want to give a meaningful name. While it's possible to pass a message as argument to git stash save, is there a way to add a message to an existing stash?

Answer 1

You can directly edit the messages stored in .git/logs/refs/stash.

I know it's probably not ideal, but should work anyway.

Answer 2

Yep, there is a way, you can try this:

git stash store -m "your descriptive message here" stash@{1}

This will create a new Stash named stash@{0} with the message as above.
This Stash is same as stash@{1}.

Then you can remove the old stash@{1} above with:

git stash drop stash@{2} # the stash@{1} has become stash@{2} as a new stash has been created.

NOTE: you cannot do this with stash@{0}: git stash store -m "message here" stash@{0} will do nothing.