[bawolff]

The backup part of that is that you are sending a copy of your code to a separate server (github).

It has nothing to do with git. Making a copy on a separate server would still be a backup even if you weren't using git. Using git without pushing your repo somewhere else would not be a backup.

[xigoi]

In this case, using Git would have helped even if it was local-only.

[bawolff]

What did the AI actually do? Because `rm -rf .` is not something git can help you with.

[xigoi]

AFAICT, it only deleted the code using the library, not the whole repository.

[freehorse]

It was a fake post anyway, but the instructions were to remove the output of that library and code using it, not delete everything on the computer or project.

[himata4113]

see response to charcircuit below.