I will concede that it might be safe in this sense - unrecoverable is too strong a word. My real world experience of this is that twice I've seen people franti

I will concede that it might be safe in this sense - unrecoverable is too strong a word. My real world experience of this is that twice I've seen people frantically trying to work out this same problem of reverting a change and finding it difficult even to get a copy of the repo that matches the desired state. Granted it works easily in the most common case, but I've never seen thus problem arise with cvs, svn, hg or p4... Its sensible to use simpler tools if they are more practical, ie I have to learn less to get what I want from those tools. This seems to be a general problem with git currently - many commands need lots of switches or background knowledge to become useful and its really not necessary IMO. It would be nice to see that improve...