On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 05:37:22AM +0100, Just a Turd wrote: [...] > But why does something always go wrong?
Judging from what you wrote in your rant, you made use of pretty advanced pieces of Git functionality. As with any advanced tools I can think of, their successful usage requires advanced mastery of them. While some people like to put forward arguments that, say, an imaginary GUI could have successfully hands-held you through that process, I doubt such a solution is feasible, and I don't mean that it's impossible to create - I mean it would be impossible to use: to solitict a solution from you in any situation where you could carry out several different actions, it would have to educate you on the matters surrounding that situation and ask your consent. I'd say that such solution would be impenetrable for a human. Consider a carpenter's toolbox, in which each of the tools tries to educate you on the laws of physics each time you attempt to wield it. Git does have sharp tools in its disposal. They require learning how they work, and practicing. Or you can ignore most of them and use just the most basic ones. > It's such unfriendly software... :(. Practically, I'd say you should learn about the Git reflog. That's the special place in a Git repository which recoard each "drastic" movement of any branch or tag being operated on. Drastic means "which would otherwise lead to loss of the artefact being operated on". The reflog allows you to recover from any "oops!" case which occur from improper assumptions about how particular Git commands behave. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
