git stash：避免“打开” <branch-name> 消息中的字符串

Question

with git stash [save] command, it always saves the stash with the string "on " prepended to whatever message I passed. Is there a way to tell git not to do that? Right now, I just vim .git/logs/refs/stash to manually remove it, but that's not preferable.

Answer 1

Right now, as of Git 2.0.0, there is no way to tell Git not to prepend "on " to whatever message is passed to git stash [save].

However, git-stash is implemented as a POSIX shell script . If you stare at this code, you'll eventually find that the "on " string is always prepended to whatever message you passed.

    # create the stash
if test -z "$stash_msg"
then
    stash_msg=$(printf 'WIP on %s' "$msg")
else
    stash_msg=$(printf 'On %s: %s' "$branch" "$stash_msg")
fi

If this is an itch you want to scratch, clearly you can edit this file (on Ubuntu, for example, default git stores its scripts in /usr/lib/git-core). I think it would make for a useful change, as git-blame shows this code was produced in 2005!