tasks/git-recovery/instruction.md

Recover a broken release repository

The git repository in the workspace was left in a mess after a bad afternoon. main currently has five commits, but the module src/app.py was deleted by the Drop legacy module commit and nobody kept a copy. An experiment that was never merged lives on as an unreachable commit whose message is wip: plan.

Fix the repository. When you are done it must satisfy all of the following.

1. Restore the module

src/app.py must exist again with exactly the content it had in the commit titled Add config loader (not the older Initial import version), and it must be committed on main in a commit whose message is exactly:

restore app.py

2. Rescue the abandoned experiment

Create a branch named recovered that points at the unreachable commit whose message is wip: plan. That commit must not become an ancestor of main, and it must still carry the work-in-progress version of notes/plan.md.

3. Tag the release

Create an annotated-or-lightweight tag v1.0 pointing at the commit titled Add config loader.

4. Ignore the junk, don't delete it

The workspace has two untracked artefacts, debug.log and build/tmp.o. Add a .gitignore so that both are ignored, commit it, and leave the files on disk.

5. Clean tree

git status --porcelain must print nothing.

Constraints

• Do not rewrite or discard the five existing commits on main; all five original commit subjects must still be present in git log main. In particular do not reset main backwards.
• Do not delete debug.log or build/tmp.o.
• No network access; everything you need is already in .git.