Weirdness explained So, a git pre-commit hook stashed workspace before doing some checks, and me aborting that script left my (unadded) changes in the stash, and I never use the stash. Compression must have prevented me from grepping for the files, but long story short, I got my files back. Socialising After work we went for beer, had a great time and got drunkish. Great start of the weekend.