On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 02:33:04PM +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > Some time ago, I stashed a few changes along with untracked files. I > > almost forgot it until recently. Then I wanted to see what I change I > > had in the stash. So I did a 'git stash show <num>'. It worked fine but > > didn't say anything about the untracked files in that stash. That made > > me wonder where the untracked files I added went. I then applied the > > stash to see that they were still there but weren't listed in show. > > > > I understand that they aren't listed because 'git stash show' is > > typically a "diff between the stashed state and its original parent" as > > the documentation says but shouldn't there be at least a message that > > the stash contains untracked files? Those untracked files are "part of > > the stash" and I see no way to get information about their presence > > currently. > > > > So, should this behaviour be changed? > > Hmm, crickets tell us that nobody is all that interested in this, it > seems. Or sometimes people are just really behind in reading the mailing list. ;) This seemed familiar, and indeed there was some discussion a few months ago: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAOtcWM3mrQEqDnjMipzea7Kp+VueBFsZDL2zcJ=y0wgj9N4Vjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ I sketched out a possible solution in: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170317141417.g2oenl67k74nlqrq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ though I share your concerns over whether people would be annoyed to see the existing "stash show" output changed. -Peff
