Re: Uncommitted source and header files disappeared after a git mv operation

From: Laszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us>
Date: Jun 23, 2010, 10:34 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTinernf5BMowVb-iJZi0c9d6SlsGSoy2L3p4H-3E@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilNI0lq0rUqvUIdNRpubNUNqKf3_5nX3TGauvQv@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Laszlo Papp <djszapi@archlinux.us> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have got a very big trouble, so please help me if you can :(
>>
>> I have done a git mv operation for a whole directory, so I have put it
>> into another subfolder and all my uncommitted/unpushed source and
>> header files were lost ... How can I regain them ?
>>
>> So I did "git mv some-directory-containing-lots-of-uncommitted-changes
>> total_different_folder/some-new-name". If I remember well then I did
>> commit/push for that git mv operation.
>>
>> git status doesn't show my changes either.
>
> I can't reproduce it. Can you provide a test case so we can reproduce
> it. Additionally you should tell us more information, like git
> version, architecture.
>
> Santi
>

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/git/

So the version is 1.7.1 and the architecture is i686.

I have tried the following commands: git log -1 git log -1 --stat git reflog

Only this commit happened and I can't find the files in the new directory.

Best Regards, Laszlo Papp