On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 01:33:36PM -0400, randall.s.bec...@rogers.com wrote:
> I don't know whether this is new behaviour following changes to stash, but > here goes. > > Suppose I have files a,b,c,d modified, but only file d is in the index. > After stash push (or save) --include-untracked, stash show only displays > file d. A subsequent pop will restore files a,b,c,d. So functionally push > and pop are fine, but stash show appears to ignores files in the stash. The > git log below shows a previous commit (dce2e3e) to the WIP stash (ab0834c) > that does contain the untracked files, and git diff is happy to show the > contents when using the ref directly. It is just counterintuitive for stash > show not to display all entries previously pushed. I would have expected > symmetry. This is not new. Right, this is expected but unfortunate. The same problem occurs with stashed changes to the index. The fundamental issue is that a stash is not representing a single diff, but rather up to three diffs: - changes to the working tree - changes to the index - a set of untracked files each of which is stored as a separate commit. This has been discussed off and on. A while ago I suggested a possible output format that shows all three: https://public-inbox.org/git/20170317141417.g2oenl67k74nl...@sigill.intra.peff.net/ The patch there is useless now, as stash has been rewritten in C (though that probably means it would be possible to make it less hacky). The main obstacle IMHO is whether we're comfortable changing the output away from a single diff. I could imagine somebody scripting around stash, though if the output remained the same for stashes without index changes or untracked files, that makes problems less likely. -Peff
