Re: git-phoenix - repository recovery tool

From: Daniil Iaitskov <dyaitskov@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 25, 2025, 21:50 UTC
Message-ID: <c392bcce-c845-4e28-98db-6acc6f5800fd@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <DB7PR02MB42650FA1779D5A3608949423B359A@DB7PR02MB4265.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com>

On 7/25/25 13:09, Skybuck Flying wrote:

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>      Hi Daniil,
> 
>      I saw your message on the web about `git-phoenix`.
> 
>      > [ANN] git-phoenix - repository recovery tool
> 
>      I am curious how this accidental rm rf * typo happened on your system ?
> 
>      Could you tell us more about it ?

I am an active nix user and develop all my projects under nix-shell. The tool does amazing job for isolating builds, but /nix/store folder tend to grow and GC launch is required from time to time to reclaim disk space, but it causes lot of downloading later and/or rebuilding of dependencies.

Once I decided to remove unused projects instead to avoid the hustle above and was interleaving 'du -hs *' and 'rm -rf <some-dir-name-form-du-output>' using bash command history to type less. At some point after repetition I mechanically rewrote du command into rm but retained asterisk :(

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>      I guess the user/you was trying to remove a folder or so ?
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>      I am wondering if I should disable this rm command, but the AI seems to like it a lot !
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>      Best regards,
>      Skybuck Flying.
> 
>      P.S.: This is an attempt to send a e-mail directly from windows 11 outlook to the mailing list/reply functionality, manually, wish this mail luck ! :D
>      ```