Yep, agree. I should have been more clear about the edge case of no prior commit. anytime you do a "reset --hard" files and changes in the working tree are lik

Yep, agree. I should have been more clear about the edge case of no prior commit. anytime you do a "reset --hard" files and changes in the working tree are likely to get deleted/reverted/etc. That's as consistent as it gets. You don't reset --hard unless you want that behavior.