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Well well well. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by ipconf@lemmy.ml to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Yeah learned this the hard way.

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[–] sucoiri@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Fun fact! If you added a file but never committed it you can still recover it with git fsck --lost-and-found. The changes were still added to the git object store, and by grepping through the dangling blobs you can find the object containing the changes you care about.