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Yep. Incredibly powerful, and it will not hesitate to help you blow your own legs off.
The big difference is that git will save your legs in
reflog
for a couple of weeks.Learning about reflog was a game changer. Now I’m never afraid of breaking my branch. If I mess up, I can always
git reset —hard
to a previous state.Another game changer was learning that a perfectly valid way of doing squash is to do
git reset
to an earlier commit and then dogit commit -a
. Saves a lot of rebasing headache.