Re: `git stash apply` deleted a random dir from my working copy

From: Stefan Monov <logixoul@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 3, 2016, 17:04 UTC
Message-ID: <CAJtFkWt8VEGHAigx7Wd49mj6erdM=y_jFbhQ+xaMaAsk91EmWg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAJtFkWu1qf3xFg1-B-xVONOmqQZfJhe4+qAb4E3H2A5-st_2dw@mail.gmail.com>

Scratch my last message, I figured out how to restore it. In the TortoiseGit context menu I selected "Diff", and in the list the deleted files were listed as "missing". I selected them all, right clicked them, and selected "revert". Still don't know why the dir got deleted in the first place though.

On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Stefan Monov <logixoul@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Actually, I just tried restoring my dir with `git pull origin
> clipping`, but that didn't restore it. So, besides the question "why
> did it get deleted", I'd like to ask "how do I restore it?", as well.
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 6:06 PM, Stefan Monov <logixoul@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I just tried `git stash save` for the first time. It worked fine. Then
>> I tried `git stash apply` and while my uncommitted changes were
>> restored, another effect was that a random dir from the root of my
>> working copy was deleted. I don't know why it chose that exact dir,
>> there's lots of other dirs like it in the root.
>>
>> `git stash save` output and shortened `git stash apply` output are attached.
>>
>> Note: The dir that got deleted was a committed and pushed dir. It had
>> no uncommitted local changes.
>>
>> It's not a huge problem, because there was no data loss - I can pull
>> the deleted data back from the repo. But I'd still like to know why
>> this problem happened.
>>
>> TIA, Stefan Monov