No, I can't say that I've ever lost work in that manner in over a decade of using git. The first few times I made a mess of things while trying to do a nontrivi

No, I can't say that I've ever lost work in that manner in over a decade of using git. The first few times I made a mess of things while trying to do a nontrivial merge it admittedly took a while to figure out how to get back to my starting point, but I guessed (correctly) that it'd be worth spending that time to learn how to do it rather than giving up and throwing away work.