Re: git stash show doesn't show stashed untracked files

[Kirill Likhodedov <klikh.list@gmail.com>]

Resending: it seems that the message was lost in discussions.

> 
> Git 1.7.7 introduced a very useful feature - stashing untracked files via "-u" option.
> 
> However, there is a problems with it:
> 'git stash show' doesn't show stashed untracked files.
> 
> # git version
> git version 1.7.7
> # touch untracked.txt
> # git stash save -u
> # git stash show         // no output
> 
> If changes in tracked files are stashed along with untracked files, then only tracked changes are shown in "git stash show" output.
> 
> Moreover, if I have the same file in the working tree, I wouldn't be able to 'git stash pop':
> # git stash pop -v
> untracked.txt already exists, no checkout
> Could not restore untracked files from stash
> 
> In this case the only way to access the stashed content is to remove the tracked file and pop the stash again.
>