On 2007-10-04 08:45:08 -0700, David Brown wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 10:33:04AM +0200, Karl Hasselström wrote: > > > > I did the 'stg refresh' from a directory that was not being > > > tracked by git. It is in the .gitignore list. This appears to be > > > the root of the problem. > > > > Mmmph. This is not the only StGit command that's apparently not > > safe to run from a subdirectory. See e.g. > > https://gna.org/bugs/?9986. > > I get an "Error: This item is private" from that page, so I'm not > sure what that is. Bleh. For some reason that bug was marked "private" (possibly because it was posted anonymously), and I didn't realize because _I_ could read it just fine ... Sorry about that; I've made it public now. > Just yesterday, I had 'stg push' empty out my patches when I ran it > from a subdirectory. Fortunately, in this case, the old versions > were in the log, but I can imagine someone less familiar with what > git and stgit are doing not knowing how to recover this. Yep. I hadn't really realized how bad this was, because I always run stg from the root dir. Wonder how I picked up that habit? ;-) Thanks for the report. -- Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx www.treskal.com/kalle - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
