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Re: stgit: lost all my patches again

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David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date
Oct 4, 2007, 15:45 UTC
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<20071004154508.GA15424@old.davidb.org>
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:
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>> I did the 'stg refresh' from a directory that was not being tracked
>> by git. It is in the .gitignore list. This appears to be the root of
>> the problem.
>
>Mmmph. This is not the only StGit command that's apparently not safe
>to run from a subdirectory. See e.g. https://gna.org/bugs/?9986.

I get an "Error: This item is private" from that page, so I'm not sure what that is.

Just yesterday, I had 'stg push' empty out my patches when I ran it from a subdirectory. Fortunately, in this case, the old versions were in the log, but I can imagine someone less familiar with what git and stgit are doing not knowing how to recover this.

David
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