The benefit of using a strange git command would be learning what a strange git command does and then it's no longer strange. You'll learn how to create, read,

The benefit of using a strange git command would be learning what a strange git command does and then it's no longer strange. You'll learn how to create, read, update, and delete that new bit of state in git. Then you won't have to wipe, clean, restore local backup, try the git thing again. You can start saving your work somewhere else, getting a fresh copy, and then try that git thing again when you know how git stash works. What you're proposing is like not learning how an incremental compiler works and suggesting to wipe, clean, restore local backup, try to compile the thing again to fix compile errors every time you have a compile error instead of learning how an incremental compiler works.