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  • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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    2 years ago

    Those are the commands GitHub lists when you create an empty repository, followed by the text of the bill. It seems incredibly likely that someone pasted something they didn't mean to, then appended the source text.

    In fact, I'd be willing to say that what happened was

    1. Copy text of bill to clipboard
    2. Create repo
    3. Copy new repo instructions to clipboard
    4. Google "how to clipboard terminal"
    5. pbpaste >> RFIA (or xclip or whatever)
    6. "Oh, fuck wrong thing"
    7. Copy text of bill to clipboard
    8. pbpaste >> RFIA
    9. Commit and take lunch without actually checking.

    Where a >> b appends the output of a to the end of file b, while a > b would truncate file b and then write the output of a to it (the desired effect).