# Behaviour of 'git stash show' when a stash has untracked files

1 messages from 2017-09-17 to 2017-09-17. Participants: Kaartic Sivaraam.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/46765

## Kaartic Sivaraam, 2017-09-17 05:07

Subject: Behaviour of 'git stash show' when a stash has untracked files
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Some time ago, I stashed a few changes along with untracked files. I
almost forgot it until recently. Then I wanted to see what I change I
had in the stash. So I did a 'git stash show <num>'. It worked fine but
didn't say anything about the untracked files in that stash. That made
me wonder where the untracked files I added went. I then applied the
stash to see that they were still there but weren't listed in show.

I understand that they aren't listed because 'git stash show' is
typically a "diff between the stashed state and its original parent" as
the documentation says but shouldn't there be at least a message that
the stash contains untracked files. Those untracked files are "part of
the stash" and I see no way to get information about their presence
currently.

-- 
Kaartic

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