Hi! A checkout deleted a partially untracked file. Is there a way to recover the file? What did I do wrong?
The problem is likely due to .gitignore being checked in and changing across branches: - A stub for a new file is created, committed and pushed. - The file is added to .gitignore and "git rm --cached file" is executed since only I need that file. - Several commits to that branch happen. The file is heavily edited, but ignored by commits as expected. - After commit, pull and push; I checkout another (old) branch, which has not seen the commit that changes .gitignore - No changes, and I checkout the previous branch again. However, now my file seem irrevocably lost. The remote repository only contains the initial stub for this file, since it was only edited after it was being added to .gitignore I usually advise my students to check-in their .gitignore file into the repository. Apparently this is a bad advice, since it now seemed to have led to a file loss. So what is the advice on this? Google turned up mixed advice there, but I could not find a reference to my problem described above. Thanks for any advice, Steffen. -- 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.
