Matt Cockayne on Mythryl: “To append four lines to one YAML file, the release job cloned a…”

To append four lines to one YAML file, the release job cloned a decade of posts. The sparse recipe in the ticket looked right and silently emptied the worktree; the append would have replaced the file. A throwaway fixture caught it in three minutes. #golang

phpboyscout.ukFour lines cost a whole websiteA plausible sparse-checkout recipe that fails green, the fixture that caught it, and the go/repo option that makes it unwritable.

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