Get the creation date of a stash

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Is there a way to tell when a stash was created?

git stash list only lists the stashes, and git stash show XXXXXX shows all the files and changes, but not the date of the stash creation.

score 545 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '13 at 15:29

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Try:

git stash list --date=local

It should print something like:

stash@{Thu Mar 21 10:30:17 2013}: WIP on master: 2ffc05b Adding resource

answered Mar 21 '13 at 15:29

Igor

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Can I add an option somewhere in my .gitconfig to make this the default display? – Trevoke Oct 31 '13 at 18:13
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@Trevoke Hm, not that I'm aware of. Best I could find was this nabble: http://git.661346.n2.nabble.com/git-stash-list-vs-non-default-log-date-setting-td5388522.html – Igor Oct 31 '13 at 18:22
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I prefer `git stash list --date=relative`. Worth noting is that the `--date` is coming from the `git log` command, not `stash` itself, see here for possible `--date` values: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7853332/git-log-date-formats – thnee Oct 21 '14 at 15:09
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@Trevoke I added an alias `[alias] stashlist = "stash list --date=local" ` to my ~/.gitconfig file – user848337 Dec 12 '14 at 16:38
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`git stash list --date=short` give you date only, in fixed width YYYY-MM-DD format that is easy to visually scan. – Tor Klingberg Jan 17 '17 at 16:38
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Using this removes the ordinal number of the stash commit (e.g. `stash@{0}`). Is there a way to show the date together with the number? – Dr_Zaszuś Jan 25 '21 at 09:51
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@Dr_Zaszuś You can use `git stash list --pretty=format:"%gd - %ci - %s"` – Fabio says Reinstate Monica Feb 08 '22 at 11:42

Lee Netherton · Answer 2 · 2016-08-15T15:29:12.820

You can use --pretty=format to achieve this. For example, this produces a stash list that includes a relative time:

git stash list --pretty=format:"%C(red)%h%C(reset) - %C(dim yellow)(%C(bold magenta)%gd%C(dim yellow))%C(reset) %<(70,trunc)%s %C(green)(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%C(reset)"

I have this set in the [alias] section of my ~/.gitconfig file, so that I can bind it to a simple sl command:

[alias]
        co = checkout
        lg = log --graph --pretty=format:\"%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset\" --abbrev-commit
        rl = reflog --pretty=format:\"%Cred%h%Creset %C(auto)%gd%Creset %C(auto)%gs%C(reset) %C(green)(%cr)%C(reset) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset\" --abbrev-commit
        sl = stash list --pretty=format:\"%C(red)%h%C(reset) - %C(dim yellow)(%C(bold magenta)%gd%C(dim yellow))%C(reset) %<(70,trunc)%s %C(green)(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%C(reset)\"

(You can see that I also have similar markups for log and reflog)

Here's what it looks like:

If you want to show the actual date, rather than a relative time then replace %(cr) with %(ci).

very nice; added to mine :) – hoffmanc Jun 03 '22 at 00:02 — hoffmanc, Jun 03 '22 at 00:02

score 26 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 21 '13 at 15:37

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git show stash@{0} also prints out the date, along with the other information.

answered Mar 21 '13 at 15:37

bcmcfc

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Ah I was using the 6 character abbreviation, maybe that was the problem. I think it also threw an error when I tried that command, but I'm on windows, so that's a whole other problem :). – Jason Lawton Mar 21 '13 at 15:42
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Ah, Windows. Trying to use git on Windows usually leads me towards wanting to defenestrate my laptop ;) – bcmcfc Mar 21 '13 at 15:44
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Doesn't appear to print the date with Git 2.8.3. – Elijah Lynn Jun 19 '16 at 14:16
@ElijahLynn I don't have a 2.8.3. to test on but it prints a full commit on 2.9 – bcmcfc Jun 20 '16 at 07:37

Get the creation date of a stash

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