> On 20 Oct 2020, at 09:33, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [...] in a public repo and may lead to bizarre conflicts and lost local > > work > > Just to clarify - it's hard to lose a local commit, even if somebody changes > the remote reference. I agree it is almost equally hard to find it once it's > dangling without any named branch or tag (extra knowledge of git is > required). Most of the time you can recover it though - looking at git reflog > is the first step to try.
Yes, that’s technically true … and now multiply this exercise by the number of devs across the globe, each with some local changes :) I went through this process once on an active project with a team of dozen people in different timezones, and it wasn’t pleasant. — Andrzej Białecki
