# Re: git-phoenix - repository recovery tool

2 messages from 2025-07-25 to 2025-07-25. Participants: Skybuck Flying, Daniil Iaitskov.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/63851

## Skybuck Flying, 2025-07-25 21:09

Subject: Re: git-phoenix - repository recovery tool
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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 guess the user/you was trying to remove a folder or so ?

    I am wondering if I should disable this rm command, but the AI seems to like it a lot !

    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
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## Daniil Iaitskov, 2025-07-25 21:50

Subject: Re: git-phoenix - repository recovery tool
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On 7/25/25 13:09, Skybuck Flying wrote:
>      ˋˋˋ
>      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 :(


>     
>      I guess the user/you was trying to remove a folder or so ?
> 
>      I am wondering if I should disable this rm command, but the AI seems to like it a lot !
> 
>      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
>      ˋˋˋ


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