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If you’re using reset with uncommitted changes and you’re not intentionally throwing them away, you’re doing something wrong.
git reset —hardmeans “fuck everything, set the state to X”. I only ever use it when I want to throw away the current state.Well yeah I think the point is you're human and you might make a mistake.
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git reset --keepwould just make more work since I'll have to throw away uncommitted changes anyways. Removing uncommitted changes is kind of the whole point, it is called 'reset' after all. If I want to preserve uncommitted changes, I'll either stash them or commit them to a temporary branch. That has the added benefit of adding those changes to the reflog so if I screw up later I'll be able to recover them.Let me live with my mistakes
~~Waddyamean "that's what backups are for"~~ Sorry, wrong community
Not many people back up continuously, so this is still useful.