[taeric]

I'm not sure I follow. The advice for the "single person always do the merge" is essentially make sure the people doing the merges are experts. These mistakes do not seem like the kind of thing I have heard of experts doing.

Seriously, you can not call yourself a git expert, if you think rebase is a difficult thing to explain.

Might you sometimes make mistakes? Sure. I hardly see this as a systemic thing, though.

The mirror shenanigans I agree suck. Not sure what the real takeaway is there, other than don't rely on mirror as a good form of backup.