In my experience, Mercurial is a little bit more friendly in this regard. You usually have to add a force argument for it to do anything that can cause irrevers

In my experience, Mercurial is a little bit more friendly in this regard. You usually have to add a force argument for it to do anything that can cause irreversible damage. Which can be frustrating as well, at least with git the commands work the first time :) A better approach (as long as no external pushing/pulling is done) IMO would be to execute the command immediately, but allow undo functionality.