Re: [feature suggestion] Improve stash descriptions

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:00:57AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> >> In case many directories are affected it could say "changes are in
> >> path1/dir1, path2/dir2, etc."
> >
> > This is unfortunately not going to be very efficient to compute in
> > certain cases, such as with large working trees where there are many
> > changes.  So while it would improve the automated stash message, it
> > might also make stashing much slower on large repositories.
> 
> Just to add to this, there's already:
> 
>     git stash list [--stat|--numstat|--shortstat]
> 
> It seems to me that what's being requested here is not so much a
> stash-specific feature, but some abbreviated "human readable" stat
> format that could be used with any log-like command.

There's also --dirstat, which will summarize the impacted directories
(though it does not say much useful if the entries are all in the root,
as they typically are for git.git).

-Peff