On Monday, September 15, 2014 4:22:39 AM UTC+2, Rick Umali wrote: > > On Sunday, September 14, 2014 5:04:18 AM UTC-4, André Hänsel wrote: >> >> I ran git merge to merge a branch. There were some conflicted files. >> Although they were automatically resolved by git rerere, I still had to add >> them. I accidentally ran "git add ." instead of "git add -u". I noticed my >> mistake and ran "git merge --abort" to start over. To my dismay all my >> untracked files are gone! Any way to get them back? >> > > The "git add ." should have created Git objects for these untracked files. > When you did the "git merge --abort", you reset the working directory, > deleting those files, but the Git objects should still be hanging around. > At least this is what I observed trying to reproduce your issue. > > If you felt like plumbing the depths of the .git/object directory, try to > sort the files in that directory in reverse chronological order. The most > recent files are probably the files that were deleted. You can confirm this > by using the git show command. >
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Indeed there they are, thank you. :) I'd consider it a bug that they were deleted in the first place. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
