[wpietri]

Yeah, my thought on reading, "I still don't have a proper understanding" is that I'm not sure anybody has that. It seems like you only know too little or too much.

I have only worked with one person really who knew is backwards and forwards. That seemed helpful at first until he used his deep knowledge to try some sort of tricky fix-up and in the process lost some of my work. Given that a version control system's one job is to not lose work, I was very disappointed.

[formerly_proven]

Local Man Deletes Files, Leaves Coworkers Very Disappointed

[grimgrin]

What context do you remember about this scenario that left the reflog a rektlog

Not confined to your local machine?

[wpietri]

This was 8 years ago, so I just remember us being in some sort of merge pickle, my colleague going, "Ah, git is easy if you just understand it as..." and then jumping in to fix it. Which he'd done a few times before successfully, as he really did understand it well. But this time he did something wrong and data was lost.

He was very apologetic about it, and it wasn't more than a day or two of work, so I was ok with it. But it was one of many experiences that have left me permanently suspicious of doing anything fancy with git. Which is fine, because for a lot of reasons mostly not to do with any particular VCS, I work to keep branching to an absolute minimum.