Show all stashes in git log

Question

I would like to see all stashes in git log output. Does anyone know if there is a way to do that?

Edit: I want to see all commits in the log -- including stash commits. I tried the command:

git log --date-order --all

But it returns only the top most stash. I would like to see commits that represent other stashes too.

Gerius

Answer 1

I came here looking to do the same as @jbialobr, I did some more digging after reading the previous answers and came up with the below.

@msmt's answer gives you a log of the stashes, and you can use this to get the hashes to use in the git log.

git reflog show --format="%h" stash gives you just the hashes of all stashes which can then be passed to a git log command such as

git log --date-order --all $(git reflog show --format="%h" stash)

The full command I personally am now using is

git log --oneline --graph --decorate --all $(git reflog show --format="%h" stash)

Tested on git version 2.5.1 on centos

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SicoAnimal, you're an awesome human. Your only contribution to SO, with [until now; for over a year] 0 votes, is definitely one for the config file. Thank you! – Celestyn

I would use xargs with this as it's more readable and easier to work with: git reflog show --format="%h" stash | xargs git show – Jennettejenni

This does show the stashes as part of the output, but there are no labels except for the first one, so it's hard to find them in the log. – Councillor

Answer 2

You can show all your stashes with git stash list. Maybe you can write a script to show both git stash list and git log and use it with an alias.

Semiology

Answer 3

Not sure what you mean. stash is a branch and you can list all stashes with git log -g stash.

Maurene

Better, it shows all stashes, but now it doesn't show index and untracked files commits that are related to stashes. Command git log -z --all --boundary shows them, but when I add -g stash, then these commits are no longer in log output. – Gerius

Just spelling this out a bit more: stash is short for refs/stash the list of all of the stash heads, and -g (or --walk-refs) tells log to step through the items in the reference list, rather than following the modification history back from each stash commit. – Hydrolyze

Answer 4

Another easy way to do this is git reflog show stash

Fissure

Have you read my Edit note? I know how to list stashes. I would like to include the all stashes in the output of the git log command. – Gerius

@Gerius I guess your question was a bit ambiguous to me. It looked like you knew how to log all the commits but you were looking for how to see just stashes. The ambiguity for me is at, I would like to see commits that represent other stashes. If git log --all is not working for you then I would have to second what @Maurene said, "Not sure what you mean". – Fissure

Answer 5

For git version 2.2.3 or later, you can simply use the --reflog option of git log.

git log --graph --oneline --all --reflog

In addition, it also shows dangling commits.

Remodel

Answer 6

To get the tree graph with everything: all branches, all stashes at your fingertips...

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Expanding on a super-useful answer from SicoAnimal, so you don't have to type out all this stuff (especially useful with remote SSH sessions where you don't have any kind of Git UI)...

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1. Setup git aliases:

# Short and sweet: hashes and graph with all branches and stashes
git config --global alias.l \
    '!sh -c '"'"' git log --oneline --graph --all --decorate $(git stash list --format="%h") '"'"' '

# Same as above + dates and emails
git config --global alias.ll \
    '!sh -c '"'"' git log --graph --all --date=format:"'"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"'" --pretty=format:"'"%C(yellow)%h%Creset%C(auto)%d%Creset %C(cyan)%cd%Creset %s %C(green)(%ce)%Creset"'" $(git stash list --format="%h") '"'"' '

2. Use aliases:

# Short and sweet: hashes and graph with all branches and stashes
git l

# Same as above + dates and emails
git ll

3. Sweet result:

Notice that you can see all stashes, not only the latest one on a the given commit (shown with arrows).

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References:

How to create a Git alias with nested commands with parameters?

Cheapen

If you use git stash list --format=%H (as suggested in a comment above by @tangle) you won't have the problem when there are no stashes – Jecho

Nice! Thanks for the tip! Updated my answer: now it uses git stash list. – Cheapen

Answer 7

Full command:

git log --oneline --graph --all $(git stash list --format="%H")

Where list of heads of stashes:

git stash list --format="%H"

Hinson

Answer 8

If you can afford having a graphical GUI, take a look at gitk.

It shows you branches, tags, remote branches stashes etc. In a visually not appealing, but very compact and useful form. It usually comes along with "git" package in your package manager and works if you also have "tk" (the GUI toolkit it uses).

Lotte

It shows only the topmost stash by default. If you have a way to make it show more than that, I'd love to hear about it. – Jecho

@NeilMayhew, try setting View Menu -> Edit View... -> Command to generate more commits to include to git stash list --format=%H. – Haynie