[panic]

If it hasn't been committed, it won't be in the reflog. Working copies and stashed changes are especially vulnerable to being overwritten by accident. It would be great if git had a way to undo these operations too.

[OJFord]

You could alias reset to instead commit all and then reset.

[panic]

But what if I'm just trying to unstage something? I don't think shell aliases can solve this in the general case.