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Re: My stash wants to delete all my files

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Jonathan del Strother <maillist@steelskies.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2007, 10:22 UTC
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On 25 Sep 2007, at 10:56, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jonathan del Strother wrote:
>
>> I don't think I git-added anything - just made changes to the working
>> copy. (It *does* stash those, right??)
>
> Stash does not care about things that are not tracked, so no, it  
> does not
> stash those.  Imagine a stash saving all those .o, .a and .so files...
> Insanity!

Mm, ok - fair point. I was actually thinking of files that are already tracked, but haven't been added to the staging area with git add.

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  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 25, 2007
  5. Jonathan del StrotherSep 25, 2007
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