I disagree. Even if you are a couple of commits behind, and you totally screwed, you should be able to recreate it from top of your head. maybe a couple of loca

I disagree. Even if you are a couple of commits behind, and you totally screwed, you should be able to recreate it from top of your head. maybe a couple of local git hooks, but still, if you pushed, the most important work should be available somewhere else and you can pull it.