Re: behaviour of .gitignore

From: Neal Kreitzinger <nkreitzinger@gmail.com>
Date: May 25, 2012, 22:41 UTC
Message-ID: <4FC00A85.9090400@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FBFB42D.3090303@gmail.com>

On 5/25/2012 11:32 AM, J.V. wrote:

> On my local machine, I create a /bin/ directory added some bash
> scripts, comitted and then pushed them to the repository.
>

You should be able to click on that commit in gitk and see that the files were added (confirm you really added them).

> Now today I do a git pull and they are gone but cannot see that
> anyone deleted them in the git log / history, but there is a /bin/
> entry in the .gitignore file.
>

If that ignore entry was there when you did the commit then maybe you never really committed them.

> Does this mean, the files are still in the shared repository (orgin)
>  that I could get them back?
>

The gitk step above will tell you if they are there.

> I tried removing /bin/ from the git ignore and doing a pull but my
> /bin/ directory is still not there.
>

Its not looking like you really committed them like you thought you did.

> Is there anyway to do a pull now and have it look at my local
> gitignore and pull the directory back?
>

If the files were really committed, then you should have that commit in your history also. Therefore, you should be able to 'git checkout' those files into your worktree.

v/r, neal