In addition to empty commits or rebasing work in progress commits, git stash accepts -m/--message and you can write a "proper" commit message when stashing work

In addition to empty commits or rebasing work in progress commits, git stash accepts -m/--message and you can write a "proper" commit message when stashing work in progress. Some client apps (I've seen VSCode do it) will even kindly move that message from the stash into their commit message writing box on popping the stash.