Re: [PATCH 2/2] status: print stash info with --porcelain=v2 --show-stash

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 21, 2021, 23:47 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1r4egct2.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20211021222532.463375-3-oystwa@gmail.com>

Øystein Walle <oystwa@gmail.com> writes:

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> The v2 porcelain format is very convenient for obtaining a lot of
> information about the current state of the repo, but does not contain
> any info about the stash. git status already accepts --show-stash but
> it's silently ignored when --porcelain=v2 is given.
>
> Let's add a simple line to print the number of stash entries but in a
> format similar in style to the rest of the format.

Who is the primary target audience of this feature? IDEs that read from "git status --porcelain"?

Whoever it is, if they bothered enough to pass an extra option (i.e. "--show-stash") to their "git status" invocation, I wonder if they want to know at least what "git stash list" would give you at the same time. After all, the --porcelain output is all about machine readability and reducing the number of forks would be what those people would be interested in, wouldn't it? I dunno.

Thanks.