Re: [PATCH] status: teach "status --short" to respect "--show-stash"

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Eric N. Vander Weele" <ericvw@gmail.com> writes:

>> Isn't this information available to scripts that want to read from
>> porcelain v2 output format (which is meant to be extensible by
>> allowing easy-to-parse optional headers, which this stash thing
>> exactly is).
>
> It is not available in Porcelain Format v2... yet :).
>
>
> I'm happy making '--show-stash' congruent with '--branch' in v1', which
> is would be in line with documented behavior, displaying something in
> v2 only, or both.  Let me know how you would like to proceed and I'll
> rework the patch accordingly.

Quite honestly, you do not want to ask _me_.  If you left it to
me, I may say that, among the possible next step you listed, the
best one is to do nothing, as I do not want to see the stash info in
the "status --short" output ;-)

It probably is the safest to make it available first only in v2
format.  I do not know if that makes its utility too limited for the
purpose of the application you have in mind.