Poke around in your `git stash`

For some reason it's never occurred to me to see if there's more to git stash than just pop until now. Turns out you can git stash list to see a big list of all your stashes across all branches:

stash@{0}: WIP on email-unsubscribe: ce66d0f Add missing "EXISTS" to data view
stash@{1}: WIP on master: 484855f Add name to email 'from' address
stash@{2}: WIP on nav_settings: cd3cc88 User revokes pending invitation
stash@{3}: WIP on new_home_integration: d6345a3 Style payment form Stripe errors

You can then git stash apply some stash other than the top one, if you're into that, no matter what branch you're on. Just use the name, e.g. git stash apply stash@{2}.

Same goes for git stash show stash@{2}, plus you can add -v if you'd like the line-by-line view.

[Addendum: you can also use git show stash@{2}, which is equivalent to git stash show stash@{2} -v. h/t @joshbranchaud]

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