Re: distinguishing between staged and unstaged content in a stash?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Kevin Daudt wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 04, 2017 at 07:10:46AM -0400, rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
> >
> >   couple (admittedly trivial) questions about stashing. first, can
> > i clarify that when one stashes content, a stash *always*
> > distinguishes between what was staged, and what was unstaged? that
> > is, when one is stashing, the "--keep-index" option relates to
> > whether or not staged changes are left in the index (and,
> > consequently, in the working directory as well), but that option
> > has no effect on the final content of the stash, yes? even if
> > "--keep-index" is used, staged content still ends up in the stash.
> >
> >   also, is there a simple way to distinguish between the staged
> > and unstaged contents of a stash (or, more basically, is this even
> > a useful question to ask)? out of curiosity, i tried to figure out
> > how to do this, and came up with the following.
> >
> > to see staged portion of stash@{0}:
> >
> >   $ git show stash@{0}^2
> >
> > to see unstaged portion:
> >
> >   $ git diff stash@{0}^2 stash@{0}
> >
> > it's not like i have a pressing need to do that, i was just
> > curious if there's a simpler way to do this, or if this is just
> > not something people should need to do on a regular basis.
>
> There was a recent thread about this[0]. The conclusion is that it's
> seen as a good change, someone just needs to supply the patch to do
> this. A possible solution was also provided (from before that
> thread) here [1]
>
> [0]:https://public-inbox.org/git/1505626069.9625.6.camel@gmail.com/
> [1]:https://public-inbox.org/git/20170317141417.g2oenl67k74nlqrq@sigill.intra.peff.net/

  ah, i see immediately what sort of worm can this represents, given
the various possible states of files in the stash:

  * staged and tracked
  * unstaged and tracked
  * untracked but not ignored
  * untracked and ignored

  i will continue reading.

rday

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