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.
IN CASE OF FIRE 1. git commit 2. git push 3. exit buildingI have this printed on a sign at work.
You guys don’t use a COW (copy on write) filesystem?
Version control would be quite adequate if using a sane amount of time between pushes
Except that one is automatically versioned and would have saved you this pain, and the other relies on you actively remembering to reflexively commit, and then do extra work to clean up your history before sharing, and once you push, it’s harder to change history and make a clean version to share.
These days, there’s little excuse to not use COW with automated snapshots in addition to your normal, manual, VCS activities.
I’m paranoid. I have like 5 different ways (including 3-2-1 backups) to restore everything. COW fs is great for stuff that is not a git-able project.
What did you learn from this?
Sorry this happened.
Use it as an opportunity to learn how to better store and edit your code (e.g. a VCS and a smart-ish editor). For me, a simple Ctrl-Z would be enough to get my code back.
If you’re using vscode you might be able to look through the individual file histories to recover some work.
On the bright side, you’ve now got squeaky clean disk space to fill with new projects!
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I keep my git clone in Dropbox so I can revert accidental delete and always have the most recent code on all devices without having to remember to commit and push. If it requires manual execution I wouldn’t really consider it a proper backup solution.
I have a separate usb harddrive for just this occasion. My lazy ass just likes to play "We backed it up last time, do we need to do it every time?
No backup, no mercy.
Oh man, I hate losing code. Last time it happened I spent more time trying to recover it than it would’ve taken to rewrite it.
You can’t just… replace your baby, man!
Sympathy upvote
Do you at least have some local commits to get back to? Or did your job remove the .git folder as well? 👀
also removed .git
what garbage cleanup tool gets rid of dotfiles, especially .git? if you let us know we can learn to avoid it
You have backups? Right?
Ya, push push push baby, do it on your own branch so that you can find your way back if needed.
Especially when refactoring.
I always like to say “push it to the limit” and then I have this homer Simpson with muscle body sitting on his super couch (I forgot which TV series the Simpsons made Satire of) picture in my head 🤣
Update, hah found it😁 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mhb9D35pkc&pp=ygUdc2ltcHNvbnMgcHVzaCBpdCB0byB0aGUgbGltaXQ%3D
git commit, git push, git out
I need a t-shirt that says this.
This is a programmers mic drop.
