4 ms·

"It is really hard to lose stuff" It is really hard to lose stuff that you have ever committed. It is really hard to lose stuff as long as you commit early and

by MBlume 4y ago

"It is really hard to lose stuff" It is really hard to lose stuff that you have ever committed. It is really hard to lose stuff as long as you commit early and often. Uncommitted work is pretty easy to lose with 'git reset'.

perlgeek 4y ago
... or with `git checkout` or with `rm` or `git clean` (for files not yet under version control).
- tsimionescu 4y ago
  ... or git merge / git pull (but not git rebase) ...
  - rjmunro 4y ago
    How do you loose files with git merge / git pull?
  - witcher01 4y ago
    merge and pull update the reflog just like rebase does, so both can be undone!
TheChaplain 4y ago
Depends. I use an IDE from Jetbrains, their "Local History" feature makes it fairly difficult to lose anything, even between changes on uncommitted files.
- stu2b50 4y ago
  I don’t think that counts as a “depends” if it involves the use of another tool.
- atom_arranger 4y ago
  This has saved me many times. Memory is cheap these days, this should probably be a more common editor feature, on by default.