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What was your “aha” moment when you finally understood Git? (self.git)
submitted 8 months ago by canpolat to c/git
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

That time I accidentally wiped an entire open source project on github and had to learn real quick how to undo a destructive commit.

Somehow after an entire night of google-fu, reading the git book three times, and tutorial videos, I got the right series of commands to fix it and nobody ever figured out what I did.

All I wanted to do was fix a typo in an imported module...