Showing all stashed changes in one go

Yann Dirson· Sep 27, 2012, 20:00 UTC · lore

When I have a couple of stashed changes, it gets annoying to repeatedly call "git stash show -p stash@{N}" until finding the correct one.

Since "git reflog show stash" already does part of the job, I thought that adding "-p" there to see the patch would help (at least it would show the not-yet-staged parts, which would already be a good start).

But the output is then really strange: does it really print the delta between every two reflog entries ? I can't think of a situation where it would be was we want - but then, my imagination is known to be deficient when I hit a situation that does not do what I was expecting at first :)

Is there another way I missed to get all those stash contents listed, besides scriptically iterating ?

Jeff King· Sep 27, 2012, 20:22 UTC · re: Yann Dirson · lore

Re: Showing all stashed changes in one go

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:00:06PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote:

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> When I have a couple of stashed changes, it gets annoying to
> repeatedly call "git stash show -p stash@{N}" until finding the
> correct one.
> 
> Since "git reflog show stash" already does part of the job, I thought
> that adding "-p" there to see the patch would help (at least it would
> show the not-yet-staged parts, which would already be a good start).
> 
> But the output is then really strange: does it really print the delta
> between every two reflog entries ?  I can't think of a situation where
> it would be was we want - but then, my imagination is known to be
> deficient when I hit a situation that does not do what I was expecting
> at first :)

This is a known issue. The reflog walker rewrites the parents of each commit to make them look like a chain, but it means that your diffs are between reflog entries, not to the true parents.

> Is there another way I missed to get all those stash contents listed,
> besides scriptically iterating ?

You can do:

  git rev-list -g <ref> | git log --stdin --no-walk <other options>

to show the individual commits with their true parents. But note that stash commits are a little confusing (they are merges representing the index and working tree state).

-Peff