On 03/03/2020 13:53, Phillip Susi wrote: > I'm using git for windows version 2.25.0.windows.1. Yesterday I was in > a bash command line and changed directories to another project. I ran > git status and it complained about basically everything being deleted > when the files were sitting there just fine. I thought that maybe it is > confused since I upgraded git recently and so I ran git checkout -f and > git clean -xfd to make sure that the working directory would be restored > to a pristine state. I later changed back to the first project > directory where I was horrified to see that all of the files from the > second project had been checked out, and the changes in that project > that I had been working on for a few days had been deleted. > > It seems the cause of this is that I had opened git bash from the git > gui menu instead of from the windows explorer menu. In previous > releases, this cause GIT_DIR to be set ( I believe ), and so that > session of git bash was tied to that repoistory even if you changed > directories to another repository. I always thought this was rather > annoying, but things seem to be worse now that I have upgraded, because > git now uses the index and hisotry log etc from the cwd, but compares > that index to files elsewhere. This seems like a recipe for disaster. > Why does git gui set these environment variables at all, and could it > please stop? > Probably worth including Pratyush Yadav for the git-gui maintenance aspect. -- Philip
