Hi Brooke

On 06/09/2025 13:50, Brooke Kuhlmann wrote:

quoted

That sounds like a bug if you're getting the rejected message above
but the ref on the remote is still being updated. I'll try and take
a look at that next week.

I'm unable to reproduce this. In the script below the final push succeeds.

     set -ex
     dir="$(mktemp -d)"
     cd "$dir"
     git init --bare origin
     git init repo
     cd repo
     git remote add origin "file://${PWD%/*}/origin"
     git config core.logAllRefUpdates always
     git config remote.origin.fetch refs/stashes/*:refs/remote/origin/stashes/*
     echo a >a
     git add a
     git commit -m a
     echo b >a
     git stash push
     echo c >a
     git stash push
     git stash export --to-ref refs/stashes/test
     git push origin refs/stashes/test
     git stash pop
     git stash push -m message
     git stash export --to-ref refs/stashes/test
     git push --force-with-lease --force-if-includes  origin refs/stashes/test

quoted

You need to pass the name of the ref whose reflog you want to look at,
otherwise it defaults to showing the reflog for HEAD. You should be
able to see the reflog for you exported stashes.> 

I gave this a try and every time I use `git reflog refs/stashes/$USER`,
 I always get a blank response. No errors and no output.

Ah, I wonder if core.logAllRefUpdates only affects the creation of new
refs. You can force the creation of a reflog by running

	oid=$(git rev-parse --verify refs/stashes/$USER) &&
	git update-ref -d refs/stashes/$USER &&
	git update-ref --create-reflog -m 'export stashes' refs/stashes/$USER $oid

the same applies to refs/remote/stashes/origin/$USER

quoted

Let's try and find why the remote update say's it rejected when it isn't
and then we can think about the best way to document pushing and
pulling exported stashes.

I haven't thought much about the pulling side of this. "git stash import"
appends to the existing stashes so I'm not sure how we'd cope with forced
updates - have got got any experience of handling this from your
experiments?

Thanks

Phillip