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[PATCH v2.1] stash: Add stash.showFlag config variable

From
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 27, 2015, 15:55 UTC
Message-ID
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Some users might want to see diff (patch) output always rather than diffstat when [s]he runs 'git stash show'. Although this can be done with adding -p option, it'd be better to provide a config option to control this behavior IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/config.txt    | 5 +++++
 Documentation/git-stash.txt | 1 +
 git-stash.sh                | 7 ++++++-
 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index f5d15ff..bbadae6 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -2567,6 +2567,11 @@ status.submoduleSummary::
 	submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does
 	not honor these settings.
 
+stash.showFlag::
+	The default option to pass to `git stash show` when no option is
+	given. The default is '--stat'.  See description of 'show' command
+	in linkgit:git-stash[1].
+
 submodule.<name>.path::
 submodule.<name>.url::
 	The path within this project and URL for a submodule. These
diff --git a/Documentation/git-stash.txt b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
index 375213f..e00f67e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-stash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-stash.txt
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ show [<stash>]::
 	shows the latest one. By default, the command shows the diffstat, but
 	it will accept any format known to 'git diff' (e.g., `git stash show
 	-p stash@{1}` to view the second most recent stash in patch form).
+	You can use stash.showflag config variable to change this behavior.
 
 pop [--index] [-q|--quiet] [<stash>]::
 
diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh
index 1d5ba7a..992fb02 100755
--- a/git-stash.sh
+++ b/git-stash.sh
@@ -305,7 +305,12 @@ show_stash () {
 	ALLOW_UNKNOWN_FLAGS=t
 	assert_stash_like "$@"
 
-	git diff ${FLAGS:---stat} $b_commit $w_commit
+	if test -z "$FLAGS"
+	then
+		FLAGS=$(git config --get stash.showFlag || echo "--stat")
+	fi
+
+	git diff ${FLAGS} $b_commit $w_commit
 }
 
 show_help () {
-- 
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