Question

When I show a git stash with git stash show, I get a diffstat. git stash show -p gives me the stash as a patch, which is much more useful for seeing what’s in there.

I’m not really keen on having an alias like git config --global alias.sts 'stash show -p', as I never remember what aliases I have — I’d rather have git stash show default to displaying as a patch.

Is there a way to make -p the default, so just typing git stash show does the right thing?

Answer 1

I’m afraid that’s not possible. Under the hood, git stash show actually executes git diff. It is passed --stat as the default.