> I've lost a day's work to a mistyped "git revert HEAD~n"; my colleague blew away his month's work with a mistyped attempt at a squashed commit. Don't you hav

> I've lost a day's work to a mistyped "git revert HEAD~n"; my colleague blew away his month's work with a mistyped attempt at a squashed commit. Don't you have backups? The companies I worked for had backups for all the home directories, so if I deleted something I could ask the admins to restore it. If there are no central backups I would sure as hell set up a local backup, so there are more than one copies of my work in case something goes bad.