I ran git commit and did not stage all files that were modified in the repo, so pre-commit stashed them to my systems pre-commit cache in $HOME/pre-commit for later restore. I then interrupted (my bad) the process and now I wonder how I can git stash apply ... and / or where I have to put the file patch49209 that is now in the cache back in .git/ without breaking my git repo. I know it's more a git than a pre-commit issue but I think it would be appropriate to provide guidance in the documentation and / or a helper function in pre-commit to get out of such a situation smoothly (if possible) because it is much more likely to occur when using pre-commit and there are checks that are non-instantaneous (because the user then has more time to make a mistake 😄).

I quickly googled and it does not seem very straight-forward. I think this can really cause a big headache otherwise, especially for non-git experts.