Silver Bay Saved My Bacon!

This morning I was attempting to customize DoorKeeper. After an hour of prodding I wanted to wipe all my changes.

1. Git checkout .
* removes changes to known files
2. Git clean -fd
* Removes unchanged files and directories

Except that’s not what I ran. I ran clean with the flags ‘fdx’ which also removes hidden files. So I lost all my .env and config files. Sure I could spend the next hour or two hunting those down.

I though Time Machine tracked these files but I didn’t see them. Silver Bay Tech has a simple blog to follow along and have Time Machine restore these files.

Mac OS X – Restoring Hidden Files and Folders with Time Machine

Thanks Silver Bay!

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