Re: Behaviour of 'git stash show' when a stash has untracked files

> Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Hmm, crickets tell us that nobody is all that interested in this, it
> seems.