We Accidentally Deleted Our GitHub Repo with Git 2.45: Here's How We Recovered It started as a routine Monday morning cleanup. Our team was testing Git 2.45’s new git maintenance optimizations, and in a moment of distraction, we ran a command that wiped our production GitHub repository clean. For 10 minutes, we stared at a 404 error where our 2-year-old repo—with 1,200+ commits, 40 open PRs, and all our production code—used to live. How the Deletion Happened We had just upgraded all team machines to Git 2.45 the week prior to take advantage of its faster pack file indexing and improved merge conflict resolution.…