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mmcclimon | 3 years ago

The rule we have is that anything that is not idempotent and not run as a matter of daily routine must dry-run by default, and not take action unless you pass --really. This has saved my bacon many times!

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maweki|3 years ago

Deleting actually is idempotent. Doing it twice wont be different from doing it once.

maccard|3 years ago

Deleting * may not be though. Your selection needs to be idempotent.

zrail|3 years ago

Early in my career I used --yes-i-really-mean-it and then a coworker removed it with the commit message "remove whimsy".

T'was a sad day.