GitHub for Mac sync deleted my uncommitted changes

Question

I use GitHub for Mac version 210 on Mac OS X 10.10. Hitting the \"sync\" button deleted my uncommitted changes. Is that supposed to happen from time to time? I\'ve never had

Answer 1

The Github Desktop creates an stash with your changes.

You can list the stashes with:

git stash list

And apply the one that Github Desktop created by doing:

git stash apply stash@{0}

For more information about git stash see this.

Answer 2

It did happen before (even for GitHub for Windows).

For added changes to the index, a git fsck --full --unreachable --no-reflog could help (as I mentioned here)

Answer 3

Command line is the way to go. I faced the same situation. When I did a stash list in the Terminal it showed me "GitHub: Stashing to pull in remote changes". And I was able to retrieve my local uncommitted changes back again. :)