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behaviour of .gitignore

Subject: behaviour of .gitignore

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3 messages between May 25, 2012 and May 25, 2012.

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J.V.· May 25, 2012, 16:32 UTC · lore

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

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.

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

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

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

thanks

J.V.

Matthieu Moy· May 25, 2012, 17:31 UTC · re: J.V. · lore

Re: behaviour of .gitignore

"J.V." <jvsrvcs@gmail.com> writes:

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

Can you check that "git show --stat" on the commit you did actually shows the files as added?

> 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.

What does "git log -- bin" say?

What does "git status" say?

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Matthieu Moy
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Neal Kreitzinger· May 25, 2012, 22:41 UTC · re: J.V. · lore

Re: behaviour of .gitignore

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