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.
Some wisdom my dad shared with me decades ago: when you’ve lost everything and must rebuild, the rebuild is ALWAYS better. As a programmer for a very long time who has done what you did, I have found this to be true. So there is your silver lining.
i deleted all my nginx configs today its gonna be ok
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sudo shutdown nowthe main production (remote) server a few times before, and ive been doing sshing into servers for a long time.there there 🫂 its ok. we all do this shit. you do have backups of course, right?
You’ve done it a few times? At the same job? Are you self-employed?
throughout many years.
you do have backups of course, right?
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I did a “rm -rf *” in the wrong directory today.
I got the absolutely beautiful “argument list too long” in return.
I had a backup. But holy shit I’m glad the directory had thousands of files in it and nothing happened. First time I got that bash error and was happy.
I usually have rm aliased to “trash” or whatever that cli based recycle bin is. But just installed a new OS and ran this on a NAS folder today by mistake.
My dad once rm -rf’ed his company’s payroll server by accident. He was a database admin at the time. He was asked to make a quick update to something. Instead of running it as a transaction (which would have been reversible) he went “eh it’s a simple update.” He hit Enter after typing out the change for the one entry, and saw “26478 entries updated”. At that point, his stomach fell out of his asshole.
The company was too cheap to commit to regular 3-2-1 backups, so the most recent backup he had was a manual quarterly backup from three months ago. Luckily, Payroll still had paper timesheets for the past month, so they were able to stick an intern on data entry and get people paid. So they just had a void for those two months in between the backup and the paper timesheets.
It wasn’t a huge issue, except for the fact that one of their employees was on parole. The parole officer asked the company to prove that the employee was working when he said he was. The officer wanted records for, you guessed it, the past three months. At that point, the company had to publicly admit to the fuckup. My dad was asked to resign… But at least the company started funding regular 3-2-1 backups (right before his two week notice was up.)
Time to implement a couple forms of backups.
IN CASE OF FIRE 1. git commit 2. git push 3. exit buildingExcept when everyone pushes to main at the same time and now you have conflicts.
They wouldn’t push to main at the same time tho, they would push to the branches they’re working on. Unless their organization is very badly run, and then it’s probably already happened before just because it was Tuesday.
Who pushes to main? That branch should be protected! Who reviews the merge request?
Lol, standards 🙄
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git-fireis a Git plugin that helps in the event of an emergency by switching to the repository’s root directory, adding all current files, committing, and pushing commits and all stashes to a new branch (to prevent merge conflicts).”git commit -m 'asdf'
I have this printed on a sign at work.
It was on a sign where I once worked, but that was almost 10 years ago.
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?
To push daily and to not write test :P
Sounds like you need Jujutsu 🥰
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 been burnt by Dropbox in the past so now use Syncthing between my desktop, laptop, and a private remote server with file versioning turned on. Trivial to global ignore node_modules, and not giving data to a third party.
It’s saved me on several occasions.
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?
