This teaches me not to rush to delete a branch once it's not needed any 
more.

On Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 6:52:07 AM UTC-4, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>
> On Saturday, July 25, 2020 at 9:03:53 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote:
>
> P. S. I am alarmed by the potential loss of data when merging git branches.
>
> When I merged the "keys" branch into devel I mistakenly resolved a merge 
> conflict by taking devel's version of leoSettings.leo. That was just wrong.
>
> After deleting the "keys" branch, there seems to be no way recover the 
> lost key bindings. I would have thought that the git merge would have 
> preserved all previous changes to leoSettings.leo, but I was not able to 
> see those changes. Fortunately, the required change could easily be deduced.
>
> Hmm. Perhaps creating a PR, as I should have done, would have fixed the 
> problem. Yes, I think so. The PR would have recorded the contents of 
> leoSettings.leo, without knowing that a conflict would have resulted.
>
> EKR
>

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