I also encountered this today on “git version 2.49.0.windows.1” in a repository with two submodules, both which are set up to track “master”. Whenever I do “git stash push” with a message on the main repository my stash message seems to be prepended with “On master: “. This only works correctly if I omit the “-m” or “—message” part of “git stash push”. git stash with no arguments outputs this: Saved working directory and index state WIP on <current branch> While git stash -m “[…]” outputs this: Saved working directory and index state On master: […] Which is not what I want because “git stash list” now gives me confusing output. It seems like I have encountered the same bug? <current branch> on the main repository is NOT “master”.