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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 8 points 1 week ago (5 children)
[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago (3 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 2 points 1 week 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 6 days ago

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

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