# [PATCH] stash show: use default pretty format

2 messages from 2012-01-12 to 2012-01-12. Participants: Tay Ray Chuan, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/29349

## Tay Ray Chuan, 2012-01-12 07:05

Subject: [PATCH] stash show: use default pretty format
Message-ID: <1326351953-3724-1-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1326351953-3724-1-git-send-email-rctay89%40gmail.com

```
By default (ie. when stash show is invoked without any arguments), the
diff stat of the stashed changes is displayed. Let git-diff decide the
default pretty format to use.

This gives git more consistency, as users who have set their
pretty.format config would naturally expect `git-stash show` to display
the diff in the same pretty format as the other diff-producing procelain
like git-log and git-show.

Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com>
---
 git-stash.sh     |    2 +-
 t/t3903-stash.sh |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh
index fe4ab28..a0db3de 100755
--- a/git-stash.sh
+++ b/git-stash.sh
@@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ list_stash () {
 show_stash () {
 	assert_stash_like "$@"
 
-	git diff ${FLAGS:---stat} $b_commit $w_commit
+	git diff ${FLAGS} $b_commit $w_commit
 }
 
 #
diff --git a/t/t3903-stash.sh b/t/t3903-stash.sh
index dbe2ac1..7a18af8 100755
--- a/t/t3903-stash.sh
+++ b/t/t3903-stash.sh
@@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ test_expect_success 'stash show - stashes on stack, stash-like argument' '
 	 file |    1 +
 	 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 	EOF
-	git stash show ${STASH_ID} >actual &&
+	git stash show --stat ${STASH_ID} >actual &&
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
@@ -484,7 +484,7 @@ test_expect_success 'stash show - no stashes on stack, stash-like argument' '
 	 file |    1 +
 	 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 	EOF
-	git stash show ${STASH_ID} >actual &&
+	git stash show --stat ${STASH_ID} >actual &&
 	test_cmp expected actual
 '
 
-- 
1.7.9.rc0.132.ge406

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2012-01-12 19:06

Subject: Re: [PATCH] stash show: use default pretty format
Message-ID: <7vy5tc210y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vy5tc210y.fsf%40alter.siamese.dyndns.org
In-Reply-To: <1326351953-3724-1-git-send-email-rctay89@gmail.com>

```
Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> writes:

> By default (ie. when stash show is invoked without any arguments), the
> diff stat of the stashed changes is displayed. Let git-diff decide the
> default pretty format to use.
>
> This gives git more consistency, as users who have set their
> pretty.format config would naturally expect `git-stash show` to display
> the diff in the same pretty format as the other diff-producing procelain
> like git-log and git-show.

A handful of issues:

 - The stash entries, unlike the usual commits you store on branches and
   inspect with "show", are designed to be quick escapes for emergency
   interruption, and "--stat" is a good default to remind the user what
   she was working on before she was interrupted _without_ scrolling the
   top of the screen away by showing the full diff.  Careful design
   decisions far outweigh mechanical application of "consistency for the
   sake of consistency".

 - What does "pretty.format" has anything to do with "stash"?

 - If it does, why doesn't the script read from it?

 - How does this justify the UI regression for people who are used to the
   good default "--stat" they have been seeing?

```