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It becomes dangerous if you have changes in your working tree. You truly lose those changes with a "git reset --hard HEAD" or the forced checkout.

• davvid 14y ago
  Exactly. As mentioned in the article, `git reset --keep` is the preferred way to do it these days. It preserves uncommitted worktree changes.
• billybob 14y ago
  Oh! I see. I would never do a `git reset` of any kind if I hadn't committed or stashed. Yikes!