Stashed files show up as unchanged in `git status` (git v.2.16.0)

Question

I use git-for-windows v2.16.0 and encountered the following problem, which also was reported here:

I initially have a clean working state; Output of 'git status':

git status
On branch beta
nothing to commit, working tree clean

Then I make local changes. Output of git status:

git status
On branch beta
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   app/src/main/java/android_serialport_api/sample/Debug.java

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Then I stash them with 'git stash':

git stash
Saved working directory and index state WIP on beta: 2fca403 working on the console

Now my working directory should be clean but the output of git status still reads:

git status
On branch beta
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

        modified:   app/src/main/java/android_serialport_api/sample/Debug.java

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Which leads to not being able to git checkout etc.

Answer 1

This is a known bug in Git for Windows and it is fixed in v2.16.0(3). Updating to a newer version will fix this bug.

Thanks to @choroba for pointing out the reported issue!

Answer 2

More recently, stashed files numbers might still not show up, with git status using porcelain v2 (presented here)

git status --porcelain=v2 --show-stash 

With Git 2.34 (Q4 2021), it now allows "git status --porcelain=v2"^(man)to show the number of stash entries with --show-stash like the normal output does.

See commit 2e59e78, commit 612942a (22 Oct 2021) by Øystein Walle (Osse).
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit dea96aa, 29 Nov 2021)}

status: print stash info with --porcelain=v2 --show-stash

^{Signed-off-by: Øystein Walle}

The v2 porcelain format is very convenient for obtaining a lot of information about the current state of the repo, but does not contain any info about the stash.
'git status'^(man) already accepts --show-stash but its silently ignored when --porcelain=v2 is given.

Let's add a simple line to print the number of stash entries but in a format similar in style to the rest of the format.

git status now includes in its man page:

Stash Information

If --show-stash is given, one line is printed showing the number of stash entries if non-zero:

stash