Re: Feature Request: Show status of the stash in git status command

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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 06:46:18PM -0400, Houston Fortney wrote:

> I sometimes forget about something that I stashed. It would be nice if
> the git status command would just say "There are x entries in the
> stash." It can say nothing if there is nothing stashed so it is
> usually not adding clutter.

I think the clutter issue would depend on your workflow around stash.

Some people carry tidbits in their stash for days or weeks. E.g., I
sometimes start on an idea and decide it's not worth pursuing (or more
likely, I post a snippet of a patch as a "how about this" to the mailing
list but don't plan on taking it further). Rather than run "git reset
--hard", I usually "git stash" the result. That means if I really do
decide I want it back, I can prowl through the stash list and find it.

All of which is to say that if we had such a feature, it should probably
be optional. For some people it would be very useful, and for others it
would be a nuisance.

Do you want to try a patch? I think you'd need to find the right spot in
wt-status.c to show the output, and then call for_each_reflog_ent() on
"refs/stash" and count the number of entries you see.

-Peff



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