[forrestthewoods]

> deal with them losing work

The fact that is ever possible is a damning indictment on Git

> Git is actually simple

The clearest evidence that something isn’t simple is when there are thousands of people yelling in frustration that it’s simple.

Things that are actually simple don’t require a never ending stream of guides and tutorials.

The world can do much, much better than Git.

[myko]

It's likely `git reflog` would have their work, but not everyone knows about it

[forrestthewoods]

Yeah data is often recoverable by experts. But it’s too hard.

My VCS rule is that commit ids are sacrosanct. If you make a commit that commit is safe. You can do whatever the hell you want. Merge, rebase, whatever. But you can always go back to that commit.

This is kinda sorta true for Git. But that isn’t a first principle. And Git’s management of branch labels is super finicky.

Mercurials anonymous branching is a better default imho.