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My editor said 10,000+ changed files and git status said 31
Both numbers were true, about different repositories. A shallow clone killed by a 60-second timeout left a repo with a valid HEAD, 6,981 files on disk, no .git/index at all, and an orphaned index.lock. With an empty index, every tracked path reads as a staged deletion.
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IndentationError on a line that is a comment, because a backtick in it ran as a shell command
A git hook broke on every commit with an IndentationError pointing at a comment. The comment mentioned a command in backticks, the whole Python program was inside a double-quoted shell argument, and the shell had run the command and pasted its output into the source.
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My fix reverted itself after an update, four times, and the grep that guarded it missed a third of the damage
A settled configuration decision came back undone in eight files after a routine vendored-directory sync, and nothing noticed for two days. Three more instances of the same shape followed: a plugin cache, a set of generated git hooks, and a marketplace bundle. If your fix lives in a file someone else owns, it is not a fix, it is a lease.
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