Question: I'm getting this error when running "git stash"

```
Cannot save the current status

```

with no other information.

Why is that?

Answer: 
In my case, `.git/refs/stash` was owned by `root`.

Simply running `chown -R <user>:<group> .git` (Linux) fixed it.

Note that you might only need to `chown -R <user>:<group> .git/refs/stash`, though.

Replace `<user>` and `<group>` with your user name and main group.
In my case, I had Visual Studio using git and was trying to stash using the command line.
Closing Visual Studio solved the problem.