From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:07:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [feature request] stash diff usability
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2026 at 8:20 PM Pierre Houston <jpmhouston@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, egg on my face, thanks. I should have looked in more places for that option.

No egg intended. By saying that it is documented only *indirectly*, I
meant that it is not necessarily easy to discover.

> I would like to see a long spelling of that option with “--“ for better discoverability.

A patch to the git-stash documentation to mention this useful option
more explicitly might be welcome, if you want to give it a shot. In
fact, it might be a good idea to call out --patch for both the
git-stash "show" and "list" commands.