# Uncommitted source and header files disappeared after a git mv operation 6 messages from 2010-06-23 to 2010-06-23. Participants: Laszlo Papp, Santi Béjar, Mahesh Vaidya, Matthieu Moy. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/24171 ## Laszlo Papp, 2010-06-23 10:24 Subject: Uncommitted source and header files disappeared after a git mv operation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTiloMDccUDObmPXPGWI_HYVDMk57EoHxZjFUiSvi%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` 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. Do I have any chance to avoid so that my boss fires me ? Best Regards, Laszlo Papp ``` ## Santi Béjar, 2010-06-23 10:31 Subject: Re: Uncommitted source and header files disappeared after a git mv operation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTilNI0lq0rUqvUIdNRpubNUNqKf3_5nX3TGauvQv%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Laszlo Papp 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 ``` ## Laszlo Papp, 2010-06-23 10:34 Subject: Re: Uncommitted source and header files disappeared after a git mv operation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinernf5BMowVb-iJZi0c9d6SlsGSoy2L3p4H-3E%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Santi Béjar wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Laszlo Papp 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 ``` ## Mahesh Vaidya, 2010-06-23 10:47 Subject: Re: Uncommitted source and header files disappeared after a git mv operation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTimi_kN_i2XmKiCB4JdqGD4_kFSjIbajtvpBWnwE%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` That means those files were not added to index ; Even that private files should stay intact I have done following test case PWD - lowflow touch foo bar car cd .. git mv lowflow workflow git commit -m "mv test" -a git push cd workflow # Uncommited files visible On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:31 PM, Santi Béjar wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Laszlo Papp 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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- Thank you and best regards. Mahesh Vaidya / 9740500144 http://www.twitter.com/forvaidya ``` ## Laszlo Papp, 2010-06-23 10:50 Subject: Re: Uncommitted source and header files disappeared after a git mv operation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTim8TblD_TUpmGR2vCjQnXMfK4WAFA3dh39dloAs%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: ``` I had some news. I have just checked the bash history on linux, which doesn't contain any intereting, but I have just realised the situation now, so the following happened: 1) So the uncommitted files were on windows 2) I renamed the whole directory under linux. 3) I pushed the changes under linux 4) At last I did a git pull under windows. The files disappeared on windows and they weren't committed :( I use this versions on windows: MySYSGIT: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/detail?name=msysGit-fullinstall-1.7.1-preview20100612.exe&can=2&q= TortoiseGIT: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/downloads/detail?name=TortoiseGit-1.5.2.0-32bit.msi&can=2&q= Best Regards, Laszlo Papp ``` ## Matthieu Moy, 2010-06-23 11:23 Subject: Re: Uncommitted source and header files disappeared after a git mv operation Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqwrtqf0w8.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr In-Reply-To: ``` Laszlo Papp writes: > I had some news. > > I have just checked the bash history on linux, which doesn't contain > any intereting, but I have just realised the situation now, so the > following happened: > > 1) So the uncommitted files were on windows > 2) I renamed the whole directory under linux. > 3) I pushed the changes under linux > 4) At last I did a git pull under windows. Are you sure the files are not where they used to be (i.e. under the directory name used before renaming)? Git usually takes great care not to touch untracked files. I'd be very surprised if it did for you. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ ```