Is there a maximum number of git stashes?

Is there a maximum number of git stashes, or can you have as many as you like?

I'm aware that

git stash list

doesn't li开发者_如何学编程st as many results as

git stash list --date=local

But does Linus Torvalds think that anyone with more than x stashes is an idiot who deserves to lose the old stashes?

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There is no hard limit to stashes. Stashes are simply implemented using the reflog of a specially-named ref called stash.

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No, there's no limit. In fact, Git handles large numbers of stashes quite gracefully:

$ du -sh .git; \
> for i in {1..10000}; do echo $i > README; git stash -q; done; \
> git gc -q; du -sh .git; time git stash list | wc -l
8.5M     .git
13M      .git        # space efficient
10000                # all there
real     0m0.212s    # listing 10,000 entries
$ echo foo > README; time git stash -q; time git stash pop -q
real     0m0.159s    # save still fast
real     0m0.146s    # pop still fast

I didn't test more, but I'd assume it'll still work the same for 100,000 or a million. So yes, the number of stashes really is unlimited.