TLDR: I accidentally overwrote an entire folder and just wanted to pick up a file from a git log.
Problem: It had dashes prepended to every line.
Solution: Regex + Sublime
Use Sublime to grep ^-(\w)*
and just backspace or delete your dashes.
Hooray! Quick win!
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