Wait.. you don't need --no-preserve-root if you add just an asterisk?
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The real fix for all this is *have backups*. I've `rsync --delete`d a project into oblivion before. 10 minutes later I was back up and running from last night's backup. It wastes more time to meticulously be uber-careful about everything than it takes to set up automated backups.
Sometimes stuff will bite you for stupid reasons. I once almost ran `rm *` instead of `rm *~`, because some idiot decided to change the Xorg tilde key behavior on Spanish layouts from normal to a deadkey (because Windows does it that way, I guess). Caught it by milliseconds.
