[Geany] Serious bug

[Nick Treleaven]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:56:10 +0100
Milan Babuskov <milan.babuskov at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just ran into a rather serious Geany bug that can cause file loss.
> 
> Incidentally I had the hard disk partition full (on Linux) and Geany
> was happily reporting that file saving is successful. I had about 20
> open files, worth about 2 hours of work. When I was done I saved all
> the files and closed Geany. Seconds later, I realized that all my
> files have size of zero bytes. Not only that I lost the recent
> changes, but complete files. This happen just prior to the commit to
> Git repository I planned. Obviously, I have nothing to commit. :(

Sorry this happened.

As of this morning Geany should at least now warn the user when files
aren't saved. There was a bug that prevented this.

As Columban mentioned, the issue of not overwriting the existing file if
saving fails is difficult to fix whilst still maintaining correct file
metadata e.g. permissions.

Nick