# Data loss when using "git stash -u" and ignored content in directories

1 messages from 2016-04-14 to 2016-04-14. Participants: Ulrich Buchgraber.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/42024

## Ulrich Buchgraber, 2016-04-14 09:16

Subject: Data loss when using "git stash -u" and ignored content in directories
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Hello,

A "git stash -u" cleans all untracked files (after storing them), and
normally does not clean ignored files.

But: It cleans ignored files _within_ a directory, when the directory
itself is not ignored, but its content (e.g. a "dir/*" ignore filter).

The bug seems to be that in the cleanup phase of "git stash -u" Git
immediately deletes untracked directories without checking if there
are ignored files in there.

See the following reproduction sample. The last "ls" command shows
that the file "ignored_dir_with_star/ignored.txt" is lost.

    git init

    mkdir ignored_dir && touch ignored_dir/ignored.txt
    mkdir ignored_dir_with_star && touch ignored_dir_with_star/ignored.txt

    echo "/ignored_dir" >> .gitignore
    echo "/ignored_dir_with_star/*" >> .gitignore
    git add .gitignore
    git commit -m "added ignores"

    touch untracked.txt

    ls -R
    # => Output:
    # .:
    # ignored_dir/  ignored_dir_with_star/  untracked.txt
    #
    # ./ignored_dir:
    # ignored.txt
    #
    # ./ignored_dir_with_star:
    # ignored.txt

    git stash -u
    git stash pop

    ls -R
    # => Output:
    # .:
    # ignored_dir/  untracked.txt
    #
    # ./ignored_dir:
    # ignored.txt

Note that there is no data loss when instead using "git stash" or "git
stash -a".

(Tested with Git 2.8.1 on Ubuntu and Git for Windows version 2.8.1.windows.1.)

Ulrich

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