Re: [Git 1.7.6.557.gcee4] git stash

> On 08/22/2011 01:01 AM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> I noticed your very timely change to git stash in the current master
>> branch. I tried it but it doesn't behave as I was expecting/hoping.
>
> It looks like it is actually creating the stash correctly, but it's
> just not deleting the ignored directory.
>
> But, there is a small problem with your command sequence...
>
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo$ git --version
>> git version 1.7.6.557.gcee4
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo$ git init
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/hilco/tmp/repo/.git/
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master #)$ cat >>.gitignore <<- EOF
>>>         *.ignore
>>>         ignore-dir/
>>> EOF
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master #%)$ mkdir src
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master #%)$ touch file.txt src/code.txt
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master #%)$ git add -A .
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master #)$ git commit -m '1'
>> [master (root-commit) 0fb4106] 1
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 .gitignore
>>  create mode 100644 file.txt
>>  create mode 100644 src/code.txt
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master)$ touch file-a.ignore src/file-b.ignore
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master %)$ echo "hello">src/code.txt
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master *%)$ mkdir ignore-dir
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master *%)$ touch
>> ignore-dir/{file.ignore,file.txt}
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master *%)$ git status
>> # On branch master
>> # Changes not staged for commit:
>> #   (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
>> #   (use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
>> #
>> #       modified:   src/code.txt
>> #
>> # Untracked files:
>> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>> #
>> #       file-a.ignore
>> #       ignore-dir/
>> #       src/file-b.ignore
>          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Why are these entries here?

>> no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
>
> if your .gitignore file looks like this:
>
>   $ cat .gitignore
>   *.ignore
>   ignore-dir/
>
> then why are those items showing up under "Untracked files:" in the call
> to git status above?  /methinks something is wrong with your .gitignore
> file.  It doesn't matter in this case, since --all will cause stash to
> stash the untracked files regardless of whether they are ignored.
>
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master *%)$ git stash --no-keep-index --all
>> Saved working directory and index state WIP on master: 0fb4106 1
>> HEAD is now at 0fb4106 1
>> Not removing ignore-dir/
>> hilco@centaur ~/tmp/repo repo (master $%)$ git status
>> # On branch master
>> # Untracked files:
>> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>> #
>> #       ignore-dir/
>> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)
>
> Also, in the future it would be nicer if you provided your list of
> commands separately, at the beginning, linked together with &&.
> This makes it easier to copy/paste into my terminal, rather than
> having to extract the commands out from within the body.
> Like this (slightly simplified):
>
>   git --version &&
>   git init &&
>   cat <<-\EOF >.gitignore &&
>        *.ignore
>        ignore-dir/
>        EOF
>   mkdir src &&
>   touch file.txt src/code.txt &&
>   git add . &&
>   git commit -m 'initial commit' &&
>   touch file-a.ignore src/file-b.ignore &&
>   echo "hello" >src/code.txt &&
>   mkdir ignore-dir &&
>   touch ignore-dir/{file.ignore,file.txt} &&
>   git status &&
>   git stash --all &&
>   git status || echo 'FAILURE'

>> So it quite explicitly states "Not removing ignore-dir/".
>
> That message is from git-clean, and it is the real problem.
>
>> How do I
>> make sure it also stashes the ignore-dir directory?
>
> It actually did stash the ignore-dir, it just didn't remove it from
> the working directory at the end.  Try deleting the ignore-dir by
> hand and then applying the stash, ignore-dir and its content should
> be recreated.
>
> Something like this is probably the appropriate fix:
>
> diff --git a/git-stash.sh b/git-stash.sh
> index f4e6f05..a2d4b4d 100755
> --- a/git-stash.sh
> +++ b/git-stash.sh
> @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ save_stash () {
>                test "$untracked" = "all" && CLEAN_X_OPTION=-x || CLEAN_X_OPTION
>                if test -n "$untracked"
>                then
> -                       git clean --force --quiet $CLEAN_X_OPTION
> +                       git clean --force --quiet -d $CLEAN_X_OPTION
>                fi
>
>                if test "$keep_index" = "t" && test -n $i_tree
>
> Needs tests.