No question this design is questionable and I'm glad I learned about it before falling victim of it. I read that they introduced git-switch and git-restore as a

No question this design is questionable and I'm glad I learned about it before falling victim of it. I read that they introduced git-switch and git-restore as a way to avoid such pitfalls. But. I once messed up badly with something else once, makefiles. I was kind of overconfident and end up screwing myself by telling something to write its output to my source files by mixing up $< and $@ somehow. Another time I accidentally overwrote a file with a simple output redirection. These two days I learned to be cautious with those commands. Same way that I always stop 2 seconds to reread my command line when I use rm. Fool me once, shame on the tool; fool me twice, shame on me. Well, that's what OP was referring to, but in such a "click-bait-y" way.