🕳️ WELCOME TO THE GIT DUNGEON

A ByteXync Interactive Workshop Repository

Where every commit is a spell… and every pull request is a battle.

                                                                                                                
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⚠️ WARNING: This is not a normal repository. Some files lie. Some reveal truth. Some… rewrite themselves. Proceed only if you are brave. Or bored.

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🔮 TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Ritual Begins
2. How to Enter the Dungeon
3. Your Quest (Tasks)
4. The Hall of Glitches
5. Decryptable Lore
6. Secret Paths & Hidden Files
7. The Five Glyph Prophecy
8. Contributing (If You Survive)
9. FINAL MESSAGE (DO NOT SCROLL)

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🧙‍♂️ THE RITUAL BEGINS

Welcome, traveler. You stand at the gates of Repo-X12, an abandoned ByteXync data-vault discovered beneath the DSCE server room.

To escape, you must master:

• Forking
• Cloning
• Branching
• Committing
• Resolving conflicts
• Raising a PR
• And avoiding the Cursed Merge™

Failing results in:

❌ Infinite merge conflicts ❌ Being trapped in detached HEAD ❌ Or worse… force pushing your destiny away

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🗝️ HOW TO ENTER THE DUNGEON

STEP 1 — Fork the Repository

You now own a mirror realm. Do not break it.

Glyph #1: ⧉

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STEP 2 — Clone Your Universe

git clone <your-fork-url>
cd git-dungeon

The dungeon awakens.

Glyph #2: 𖤐

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STEP 3 — Create Your Fate

git checkout -b hero/<your-name>

Each participant forms their own timeline branch. Only one will survive the CI pipeline.

Glyph #3: ⟁

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⚔️ YOUR QUEST

Inside /tasks/ you will find QUEST FILES.

Each quest teaches Git using narrative tasks.

Example:

/tasks/
   quest1.md
   quest2.md
   forbidden-folder/
      do-not-open.txt
   glitch.txt

Quest Rules

✔ Make 1 change ✔ Commit with a dramatic message ✔ Push to your branch ✔ Raise a PR

Available Task Types

📝 Story Tasks — add a line to the ByteXync epic 🐛 Bug Tasks — fix (or embrace) the dungeon bugs 🧩 Puzzle Tasks — decrypt files 🎨 Chaos Tasks — instructions unclear on purpose

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🐛 THE HALL OF GLITCHES

Some files are fake bugs. Some are real bugs. You must identify which is which.

Examples (add these files):

/glitches/README.md
     - Contains a line that randomly appears/disappears when viewed on GitHub.

/glitches/infinite-loop.js
     - A "bug" that isn’t actually broken.

/glitches/real-bug.py
     - Actually broken. Fix it.

Glyph #4: ✦

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🗃️ DECRYPTABLE LORE

In /lore/, add files like:

codex.txt
 prophecy.md
 encrypted.txt (base64)
 reality-shift.dat

Example entry:

VGhlIGZpbmFsIGZsYWcgaXM6IEJ5dGVZeW5je3RoaXNfaXNfbm90X3RoZV9mbGFnfQ==

(This decodes into a hint. Participants will figure it out.)

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🕳️ SECRET PATHS

The dungeon contains hidden locations:

✔ /secrets/

Contains nothing. Or does it?

✔ .shadow/

A folder that is not mentioned anywhere else in the repo.

✔ /branches/

Each subfolder contains riddles that tell students what a Git branch REALLY is.

✔ /graveyard/

Where abandoned branches go to die.

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🜂 THE FIVE GLYPH PROPHECY

All five glyphs in order spell THE FINAL PASSCODE.

1. ⧉
2. 𖤐
3. ⟁
4. ✦
5. ⟡

Glyph #5: ⟡

Participants who DM you the correct passcode = they fully explored the repo.

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🛡️ CONTRIBUTING (IF YOU DARE)

You may contribute by:

1. Completing tasks
2. Creating tasks for others
3. Fixing glitches
4. Adding secrets
5. Expanding the ByteXync Lore™

Every merged PR earns you:

⭐ Eternal glory ⭐ A place in the Hall of Contributors ⭐ Immunity from git reset --hard (for 24 hours)

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🏆 HALL OF CONTRIBUTORS

<your-name-here>
<awaiting-heroes>

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⚠️ FINAL MESSAGE

Do not scroll further. This section is forbidden. Even I, the Dungeon Master, fear what lies beyond.

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404: Fate Not Found

A whisper echoes:

“Check the .shadow directory.”

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