Re: Feature Request: Show status of the stash in git status command

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 11:42:44PM -0400, liam Beguin wrote:

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Conceptually, the contents of the stash are *not* commits, even
though the implementation happens to use a commit to represent each
stash entry.  Perhaps "has %d entry/entries" is an improvement, but
a quick scanning of an early part of "git stash --help" tells me
that

what's different between a stash and a commit? 

The same that exists between an interface and a concrete implementation
in a programming language.

"A stash entry" is a concept which is defined to keep explicitly
recorded untracked files and which can be applied, shown and deleted
from the stash bag (well, you can create a branch off it as well).

The fact a stash entry is a merge commit of two synthetic commits is an
implementation detail.  It can be very useful at times for power users,
but regular Git users need not be concerned with this.

Another fact worth reiterating that what the UI displays to the user is
better to match what the user reads in the docs. ;-)