On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:25 AM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Perhaps there should be a flag for this if it is implemented, say status.showStash? > 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