Behaviour of 'git stash show' when a stash has untracked files
- From
Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com>
- Date
- Sep 17, 2017, 05:27 UTC
- Message-ID
- <1505626069.9625.6.camel@gmail.com>
Some time ago, I stashed a few changes along with untracked files. I almost forgot it until recently. Then I wanted to see what I change I had in the stash. So I did a 'git stash show <num>'. It worked fine but didn't say anything about the untracked files in that stash. That made me wonder where the untracked files I added went. I then applied the stash to see that they were still there but weren't listed in show.
I understand that they aren't listed because 'git stash show' is typically a "diff between the stashed state and its original parent" as the documentation says but shouldn't there be at least a message that the stash contains untracked files? Those untracked files are "part of the stash" and I see no way to get information about their presence currently.
So, should this behaviour be changed?
-- Kaartic