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I'm using magit 20160517.838, Emacs 25.0.50.2

I just upgraded magit from 20160320 to 20160517 and when I try to stash I now get this issue;

magit-stash-create: Cannot save the current index state

I can still manually stash on the command line with

git stash

Update

I've put the debug into my init.el file

(setq magit-git-debug t)

Then I restarted emacs and tried stashing again but no debug console is displayed. I get the following error in my *magit-process file.

128 git … commit-tree --no-gpg-sign -m index on master: 917b40b Revert "electric-pair-mode failed with python files." -p HEAD 8e2cbf3020c9c4d509f98a1924f3d43ba0ed4f12
fatal: Not a valid object name --no-gpg-sign

I think I require updating my git as I'm running an old version '1.9.1'

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    Do (setq magit-git-debug t) and then use $ to see whether you get a more useful error message in the process buffer.
    – tarsius
    May 18, 2016 at 6:36
  • The failing command is git commit-tree.
    – tarsius
    May 18, 2016 at 7:18
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    If you don't help me help you, then I have nothing to work with.
    – tarsius
    May 23, 2016 at 13:09

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Indeed Magit does require at least Git v1.9.4.

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  • I am using git 1.9.4, and I also get this error: fatal: Not a valid object name --no-gpg-sign.
    – md5i
    Feb 24, 2017 at 19:18
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This could also be due to not having configured git properly: 

  git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"
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