Re: [PATCH 2/2] status: print stash info with --porcelain=v2 --show-stash

Øystein Walle [off-list ref] writes:

The v2 porcelain format is very convenient for obtaining a lot of
information about the current state of the repo, but does not contain
any info about the stash. git status already accepts --show-stash but
it's silently ignored when --porcelain=v2 is given.

Let's add a simple line to print the number of stash entries but in a
format similar in style to the rest of the format.

Who is the primary target audience of this feature?  IDEs that read
from "git status --porcelain"?

Whoever it is, if they bothered enough to pass an extra option
(i.e. "--show-stash") to their "git status" invocation, I wonder if
they want to know at least what "git stash list" would give you at
the same time.  After all, the --porcelain output is all about
machine readability and reducing the number of forks would be what
those people would be interested in, wouldn't it?  I dunno.

Thanks.