When --porcelain=v2 is given --show-stash is silently ignored. But the format is useful for quick gathering of repo status, for e.g. prompts. And indeed git's own git-prompt.sh supports printing a sigil when stash entries exist. The first patch is just a very small refactoring. It's far from necessary (although as it stands the second patch depends on it) but it makes sense to me. The second patch is the one that counts. Øystein Walle (2): status: count stash entries in separate function status: print stash info with --porcelain=v2 --show-stash Documentation/git-status.txt | 8 ++++++++ t/t7064-wtstatus-pv2.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++ wt-status.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 2.27.0