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Git is non-destructive and its great. Until you learn why the really dangerous command nobody talks about is git checkout.

• lisper 7y ago
  Or until you accidentally check in a file that contains a secret. Then the non-destructiveness becomes a serious problem.
  • palunon 7y ago
    Two possibilities there: either your secret was published to others, and it's not a secret anymore, or it wasn't, and you can easily remove it. (Even from your local repo, if necessary remove the relevant blob hash)
    • kkarakk 7y ago
      Easy to say but a chinese dev went to prison for pushing DJi's secret crypto key to github