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by tedunangst 1526 days ago
Or create a mercurial repo that contains a .git directory, and rely on finger memory making them run git immediately after cloning...
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Finger memory, or just a shell configured to run `git status` before every command, as some people have.

And besides a Mercurial repo, it could also be a tarball or zip file…

Quite a dangerous situation.

I’ve done that a few times. I’ve typed “git foo” while mentally thinking about “svn foo”, and after a few hours working on a project that still uses svn I will start making the opposite substitution too.
We use the grunt build tool. More than a handful of times, I've tried to get grunt to do a merge, or git to build the app.