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I just did this:
rm TEST/ *instead ofrm TEST/*and spent a long minute staring at my terminal, having just nuked the contents of my working directory.
I'm sure there's lots of benefits to open-sourcing your stuff, but the big one for me right now, was that I was able to get things back again.
Wow, that's an emotional rollercoaster
You don't gotta make it open-source to run git.
Seconded.
I use it for everything I can. Config files, private text documents, MUD maps… everything I can put into source control goes into source control.
I don’t know what it is, I just love git.
It's simple collaborative versioning, and way faster than it has any right to be
I get it, I did an accidental
rm -rf / somethingabout twenty years ago and I’m still careful.I caught it pretty quickly, but I had to spend a lot of time panicking and redownloading system files. I was in college at the time so it felt like changing parts on a speeding car.