Re: Viewing untracked+stashed files in git stash show

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 09:50:29AM +0000, Okash Khawaja wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 8:20 AM,  <stefan.naewe@atlas-elektronik.com> wrote:
> > Am 16.03.2017 um 17:34 schrieb Okash Khawaja:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> If you have some untracked files and your run `git stash -u`. Then
> >> `git stash show` doesn't show the untracked files. Is there a flag
> >> that can be passed to git stash show to report untracked files?
> >
> > Not for 'git stash' but you can use 'git show stash@{0}^3
> 
> Okay that's fine as long as you know. But the first thing that comes
> to your mind is that you've lost those untracked files. Is there a
> reason why git stash show doesn't show those files?

No, I don't think there is a good reason. The "untracked" option was
added to git-stash much later, and nobody considered how it interacted
with "stash show".

Changes from the index have the same problem. Probably "stash show"
should have options "--index" and "--untracked" to show:

  # index
  git diff $stash^1 $stash^2

  # untracked
  git diff $stash^1 $stash^3

Possibly it should even show those by default when they are non-empty.

-Peff