`git stash create` does not return a hash

Question

Example (bash):

> cd ~/repo1
> git stash create

Clearly something is wrong, maybe there is already something stashed?

> git stash drop
No stash entries found

Maybe there is something wrong with git, pick a random other repository and rerun:

> cd ~/repo2
> git stash create
f6fed634ce4de28d8696de39f6a338df8edef59c

What's going on here?

Answer 1

If there's nothing to stash, there's no unstaged or staged changes, it won't make a commit object.

$ git status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
    modified:   this
$ git stash create
a42c068d4b8139a6d572ad04e77f1bd0057b3408

$ git restore this
$ git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean
$ git stash create
$