[kjeetgill]

Agreed though. I always start with teaching people. If you git add + git commit + git branch BACKUP everything you can very safely do anything you want. If you get confused it's trivial to get to a clean state by git reset --hard.

If you give people a way to get to a clean slate it removes a significant amount of the learning curve. In my experience, push/pull/fetch/log/diff are easy enough it's only really merge/rebase management that gets people caught up. Giving people a short fuck up -> undo -> retry cycle lets people learn pretty quick.