When you unknowingly/accidentally/inadvertently delete something someone was working on for a long time and they don’t tell you until several months later when all the backups are long rotated out. No way to fix it and nothing left to do but accept blame and sanctions and work to regain lost trust. Kill me now.

"backups rotated out"?

go find whoever's responsible for your backup strategy, and bitchslap them into oblivion, because THEY fucked up. period.

also, if nobody notices it missing for months, it couldn't have been _that_ important..

@tosensei well, most companies do not keep backups indefinitely, but on the other hand, if its important work it should be tracked in some way and should not be that easily deleted and forgotten.

If its a branch it should have bern marked as work in progress and preferable named with a ticket id which would make it easy to see if its still relevant.

@Voxera yeah, not forever - but for less than a few months? that seems a bit negligent.

@tosensei Backups last up to 6 months but the default is 1 month. And in this case the issue was that backups weren’t turned on for this dev environment. Also, it wasn’t engineered right and backups were coupled to the environment. When the environment disappeared, so did the backups.