Trying to understand where the danger is with git reset. To avoid a very harmless and easily reversible command, you complicated the process with another branch

Trying to understand where the danger is with git reset. To avoid a very harmless and easily reversible command, you complicated the process with another branch. The fact you feel it is dangerous tells me that you don't have a strong understanding of how git works. It's always kind of funny to me to see how strong of an opinion devs get over how to use git when it's clear they don't really understand the toolset. It took a while to get all the devs at my last company to understand how simple it is to rebase/reset, and write some publish worthy commits, but once they all understood the value it adds, they all became converts and did the evangelism job for me the next time we hired a dev. I recommend reading Pro Git by Scott Chacon. Git is pretty dang amazing.