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Your Git horror stories (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We all have been there... For the beginner it's easy to mess things up. What are your horror stories with Git?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

Me doing a massive rebase

Find out at the end I royally messed up somewhere and it does not build at all.

I did not push changes to remote before rebaseing

I did not push changes to remote before rebasing? suprised picachu

[–] anupcshan 1 points 2 years ago

For any major operations like this, I always save the current commit with a tag. Very easy to get back to the original commit in case something blows up.

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