Why learn how to use the entire swiss army knife when you can keep it closed to use it as a very small hammer?
I always use this command as $rm -fr and read it as remove, for real
I do write it as
rm -rf, but then my brain always continues singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight…singing The Lion Sleeps Tonight…
“reeHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE–EE–Eaally ya-sure ya-wan-nadothaaat?”
(rm -rf, rm -rf, rm -rf)
it’s for the French locale
Hey, sometimes you need to hose out the cruft.
Why yes, I do maintain a legacy application that still stores user files in Program Files in blatent violation of 15 years of Windows best practices and continues to be done contrary to my repeated advice, why do you ask?
Another one of this kind is
rm -rf node_modules && npm installWhy not
git clean -dxf?Nuke the reflog
What? Why would you need to do this? Is someone fucking with the .git directory?
It does sometimes happen that something in there just breaks and isn’t easy to recover. But it can also be a matter of (inexperienced) devs just deciding, fuck it, I won’t try to merge it, I’ll just copy my changes elsewhere and throw away the repo.
I have never had git get into a state I cannot get out of. Even if that is a reset, checkout or clean. And those are very rare. How are people breaking things so often.
Learn the tools you use daily, it saves you a lot of headache in thelong term.
Oh yeah, but I’m talking about the internal Git state just genuinely being broken, for example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14448326/git-commit-stopped-working-error-building-trees
Ultimately, if you spend half an hour debugging that, it just starts being a waste of time compared to cloning anew.As for how to merge, yes, one should learn that. The problem is that the complexity of the code changes adds on top of whatever insecurities you might still have with Git.
I did put “inexperienced” in braces there, because even as an experienced dev, merges are sometimes just not worth doing. In that case, you could just checkout the branch a second time, but well, still not that different.Step 1. Forget to push local commits
Step 2. Push commits from another machine
Step 3. Pull from remote om the first machine
I’m a bit of a noob, I often do this when I get too careless.
That should not break things though. Maybe get a merge conflict that you need to sortout at worst. This is essentially the constant state of working with other people on a project.
But it can also be a matter of (inexperienced) devs just deciding, fuck it, I won’t try to merge it, I’ll just copy my changes elsewhere and throw away the repo.
Pretty sure that’s actually it. Git has a learning curve and, for example, some naive rebase not working out as intended can be scary if you don’t know what you’re doing.
People inexperienced with git can get stuck after doing some funky checkout / rebase stuff. If you don’t know your way around git so well, I guess this is the obvious solution.
I’ve been doing this yesterday. Not because Git broke, but since Intellij kept pulling invalid configs from the cache, and that was based on some kind of path identifier it seemed.
Gradle!
Fucking gradle. I do config stuff, rerun gradle error here, I fix the error rerun gradle: sth. Violation error.
Ok intellij invalidate chaches and restart… Still same error.
Fine I’ll do it again
git add. git commit -m "stuff" git push rm -rf repo git clone repoYou can probably use something like
git clean -xdfTo get rid of all the artifacts not tracked by git, in this case it’s virtually the same as deleting the repo and re-cloning it.
NOTE: Make sure everyhing is staged, otherwise that data is gone
I guess that’s probably easier than learning how to wipe your ass.
I feel dumb: Why
git rm -rfand notrm -rf? O.ogit rm -rfis only usable within the scope of the git repository and removes files in the staging area and working directory but doesnt affect untracked files or .git.rm -rfaffects everything. For this caserm -rfprobably would be the better optionedit: did a quick edit on the meme to change it to
rm -rfsince it makes more senserm - rfis the only version that makes sense, since the only reason to delete and re-clone is to recover from an unexpected.git/state, andgit rmwon’t remove that.Thanks
Never heard of it, makes total sense, but I’d guess 95% of developers just nuke the directory raw.
That’s the joke, yes.
ew french language pack gross
Delete container, rebuild container. Sometimes it’s just useful to clean up all the mess of cache files
Crowdstrike?
No, not this time, at least
