Include A Message With Your Stashed Changes

If you were to quickly stash some changes, you end up with a stash reference that git would attach a little context to, such as the latest commit SHA and the first line of its commit message.

$ git stash list
stash@{0}: WIP on master: 6766419 Add link to source for latest TIL

Often this won't provide you the needed context to return to your stash and pick up where you left off even days later.

You can customize the message of a stash with the -m flag.

$ git stash push -m 'made some changes'

When you view your stash list, you'll see your custom message.

$ git stash list
stash@{0}: On master: made some changes

And hopefully that's the context you need to hit the ground running.

See man git-stash for more details.