The way out is to never do anything by hand. Always put it in your release script and run the script from an as-dirty-as-possible workspace. Whenever you do so

The way out is to never do anything by hand. Always put it in your release script and run the script from an as-dirty-as-possible workspace. Whenever you do something manually, this manual process that exists as a kind of "virtual script" in your head gets out of sync with the script that you have on disk. The article describes the continuous struggle to keep those two in sync. By only having the one on disk, that struggle goes away.