Re: Feature Request: Show status of the stash in git status command

> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 06:46:18PM -0400, Houston Fortney wrote:
>
>> I sometimes forget about something that I stashed. It would be nice if
>> the git status command would just say "There are x entries in the
>> stash." It can say nothing if there is nothing stashed so it is
>> usually not adding clutter.
>
> I think the clutter issue would depend on your workflow around stash.
>
> Some people carry tidbits in their stash for days or weeks. E.g., I
> sometimes start on an idea and decide it's not worth pursuing (or more
> likely, I post a snippet of a patch as a "how about this" to the mailing
> list but don't plan on taking it further). Rather than run "git reset
> --hard", I usually "git stash" the result. That means if I really do
> decide I want it back, I can prowl through the stash list and find it.
>
> All of which is to say that if we had such a feature, it should probably
> be optional. For some people it would be very useful, and for others it
> would be a nuisance.

> Do you want to try a patch? I think you'd need to find the right spot in
> wt-status.c to show the output, and then call for_each_reflog_ent() on
> "refs/stash" and count the number of entries you see.
>
> -Peff