# behaviour of .gitignore

3 messages from 2012-05-25 to 2012-05-25. Participants: J.V., Matthieu Moy, Neal Kreitzinger.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/30619

## J.V., 2012-05-25 16:32

Subject: behaviour of .gitignore
Message-ID: <4FBFB42D.3090303@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4FBFB42D.3090303%40gmail.com

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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.

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## Matthieu Moy, 2012-05-25 17:31

Subject: Re: behaviour of .gitignore
Message-ID: <vpqr4u8rwuf.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/vpqr4u8rwuf.fsf%40bauges.imag.fr
In-Reply-To: <4FBFB42D.3090303@gmail.com>

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"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?

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

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## Neal Kreitzinger, 2012-05-25 22:41

Subject: Re: behaviour of .gitignore
Message-ID: <4FC00A85.9090400@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4FC00A85.9090400%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <4FBFB42D.3090303@gmail.com>

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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

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