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[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 days ago (8 children)

That's not a mistake git can do that to people. Especially those who have never used git via command line.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (7 children)

Yeah, imagine you accidently commit over weeks of work, or hell, if it's the main branch, and you deleted the other origin branch prior to merging, it could be a lot more than a few weeks worth of work. The revert to a previous commit... shutters.

[–] wise_pancake 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That’s when you call in a wizard.

They do git necromancy and sacrifice a goat to the reflog to recover your code

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Ah, yes, the reflog incantation. It is said that it can be performed only by those who have rebased on an hard reset origin.

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