From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:45:08 GMT
Subject: Re: stgit: lost all my patches again
Message-ID: <20071004154508.GA15424@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071004083304.GB17778@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote:

>> 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