Re: stgit: lost all my patches again

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Oct 4, 2007, 17:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20071004172930.GC21717@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20071004154508.GA15424@old.davidb.org>

On 2007-10-04 08:45:08 -0700, David Brown wrote:

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> 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.

Bleh. For some reason that bug was marked "private" (possibly because it was posted anonymously), and I didn't realize because _I_ could read it just fine ... Sorry about that; I've made it public now.

> 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.

Yep. I hadn't really realized how bad this was, because I always run stg from the root dir. Wonder how I picked up that habit? ;-)

Thanks for the report.

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Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle