Issue: While running a git stash command including the '-u' flag to include untracked files, the command failed due to arguments in the incorrect order. After this untracked files the were present had been removed and permanently lost.
Environment: Windows 10, Powershell w/ PoshGit
State before running command: 9 Modified files, 2 (new) untracked files
Note: I only wanted to commit some of the modified files (essentially all the files/changes I wanted to commit were in one directory)
Actual command run: git stash push -u -- Directory/To/Files/* -m "My Message"
Returned:
Saved working directory and index state WIP on [BranchName]: [Commit hash] [Commit Message]
fatal: pathspec '-m' did not match any files
error: unrecognized input
State after Command ran: 9 Modifed files, 0 untracked files
The command I should have ran should have been
git stash push -u -m "My Message"? -- Directory/To/Files/*
I have found the stash that was created by running this command:
gitk --all $(git fsck --no-reflog | Select-String "(dangling commit )(.*)" | %{ $_.Line.Split(' ')[2] })
?
and searching for the commit number that was returned from the original (paritally failed??) stash command. However there is nothing in that stash. It is empty.
I think that the fact my untracked files were lost is not correct behaviour and hence why I'm filing this bug report
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