Fix init --recover not working (backport #9201)

[mergify]

This is an automatic backport of pull request #9201 done by Mergify.
Cherry-pick of fdbc32e has failed:

On branch mergify/bp/release/v0.43.x/pr-9201
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/release/v0.43.x'.

You are currently cherry-picking commit fdbc32e50.
  (all conflicts fixed: run "git cherry-pick --continue")
  (use "git cherry-pick --skip" to skip this patch)
  (use "git cherry-pick --abort" to cancel the cherry-pick operation)

nothing to commit, working tree clean

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[robert-zaremba]

this was already merged