I was about ready to push my branch and create a pull request when I noticed the branch display in visual studio said 'Unknown Repository'
For some reason I decided to stash my changes. In visual studio I clicked 'Stash All (--include-untracked)'
After this my repository showed correctly and the branch showed correctly. But all my changes were gone and there was no stash to restore.
Is there any way I can get my changes back?
Good news. I managed to find a list of the stashes in .git/logs/refs/stash
This contained a list of my previous stashes including the last stash that caused all the troubles.
This line has 2 hashes. The first hash was the same as one of the hashes of a stash above. So I took the 2nd hash and ran this command in the package manager console of visual studio:
git stash apply {StashHash}
This applied the changes and I could then commit and push to the remote branch.
I hope this helps someone in future.
