It does sometimes happen that something in there just breaks and isn't easy to recover. But it can also be a matter of (inexperienced) devs just deciding, fuck it, I won't try to merge it, I'll just copy my changes elsewhere and throw away the repo.

[–] nous 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have never had git get into a state I cannot get out of. Even if that is a reset, checkout or clean. And those are very rare. How are people breaking things so often.

Learn the tools you use daily, it saves you a lot of headache in thelong term.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah, but I'm talking about the internal Git state just genuinely being broken, for example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14448326/git-commit-stopped-working-error-building-trees
Ultimately, if you spend half an hour debugging that, it just starts being a waste of time compared to cloning anew.

As for how to merge, yes, one should learn that. The problem is that the complexity of the code changes adds on top of whatever insecurities you might still have with Git.
I did put "inexperienced" in braces there, because even as an experienced dev, merges are sometimes just not worth doing. In that case, you could just checkout the branch a second time, but well, still not that different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Step 1. Forget to push local commits

Step 2. Push commits from another machine

Step 3. Pull from remote om the first machine

I'm a bit of a noob, I often do this when I get too careless.

[–] nous 2 points 3 months ago

That should not break things though. Maybe get a merge conflict that you need to sortout at worst. This is essentially the constant state of working with other people on a project.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

But it can also be a matter of (inexperienced) devs just deciding, fuck it, I won't try to merge it, I'll just copy my changes elsewhere and throw away the repo.

Pretty sure that's actually it. Git has a learning curve and, for example, some naive rebase not working out as intended can be scary if you don't know what you're doing.