On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 07:55:06PM +0100, Daniel Hahler wrote:

The default (commit) message when creating a stash strips the beginning of
branch names if they contain a slash,
e.g. "WIP on 3.2.x: …" instead of "WIP on stable/3.2.x: …"

From builtin/stash.c (in do_create_stash):

	branch_ref = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", 0, NULL, &flags);
	if (flags & REF_ISSYMREF)
		branch_name = strrchr(branch_ref, '/') + 1;


Whereas git-legacy-stash has this (in create_stash):

	if branch=$(git symbolic-ref -q HEAD)
	then
		branch=${branch#refs/heads/}
	else
		branch='(no branch)'
	fi
	msg=$(printf '%s: %s' "$branch" "$head")

I think it should also strip only "refs/heads/" or use another method that
keeps the branch name intact.

Yes, the C behavior just seems wrong (and came as part of the C rewrite,
so doesn't seem intentional). Something like:

diff --git a/builtin/stash.c b/builtin/stash.c
index d441481d68..70dcb15cb7 100644
--- a/builtin/stash.c
+++ b/builtin/stash.c

@@ -1334,7 +1334,7 @@ static int do_create_stash(const struct pathspec *ps, struct strbuf *stash_msg_b
 
 	branch_ref = resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", 0, NULL, &flags);
 	if (flags & REF_ISSYMREF)
-		branch_name = strrchr(branch_ref, '/') + 1;
+		skip_prefix(branch_ref, "refs/heads/", &branch_name);
 	head_short_sha1 = find_unique_abbrev(&head_commit->object.oid,
 					     DEFAULT_ABBREV);
 	strbuf_addf(&msg, "%s: %s ", branch_name, head_short_sha1);

seems like the right fix. Do you want to try to work that into a patch
with a test?

-Peff