I have no idea what you are doing, I have only ever seen git lose data when I did an interactive rebase, and those are easy enough to backup, as all you need to

I have no idea what you are doing, I have only ever seen git lose data when I did an interactive rebase, and those are easy enough to backup, as all you need to do is do them on a new branch. If git is confusing, I suggest reading up on merkle trees and directed graphs - I found git understandable once I grokked its mental model. Still sometimes have to lookup the actual commands, but it is very rarely the case that I am confused by anything.