Modify progress reset to redownload base files #38
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Pull request overview
This pull request adds functionality to re-download base files during progress reset operations to ensure that files like answers.txt are properly reset to their original state, addressing issue #240.
Changes:
- Added import for
Pathfrompathlibmodule - Implemented base files re-download logic within the progress reset flow
- Added directory creation and binary file type detection for downloaded base files
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Jan 17, 2026
| with ExercisesRepo() as repo: | ||
| formatted_exercise_name = exercise_config.formatted_exercise_name | ||
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| if len(exercise_config.base_files) > 0: |
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Even repo_type ignore may have base files we want to restore to original state
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Fixes git-mastery/exercises#240
Currently, we use
base-filesforanswers.txtfile, but we don't reset these base files inprogress reset. This missing behaviour leads to unexpected results, where students expectprogress resetto reset theiranswers.txtfile, but it is not reset, ie. it is not an entirely clean state as students would expect.This change adds an additional step in
progress resetto re-download base files as well to ensure comprehensiveness inprogress reset, to ensure that the exercise is reset fully.