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As the title says. I put the wrong value inside a clean up code and I wiped everything. I did not push any important work. I just want to cry but at least I can offer it to you.

Do not hesitate to push even if your project is in a broken state.

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[–] mat@jlai.lu 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

You have backups? Right?

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what garbage cleanup tool gets rid of dotfiles, especially .git? if you let us know we can learn to avoid it

[–] mat@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

shutil.remove_tree(BASE_DIR) instead of shutil.remove_tree(TEMP_DIR) inside of tear down code

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 17 hours ago

oh, I see. well, lessons learned hopefully! :)

[–] msherburn33@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

On top of that, the content of .git/objects/ is write protected, so even if you go rm -r, you'll get an additional warning.