Get the creation date of a stash

Question

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.

Answer 1

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 

Answer 2

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).