Dangers of reset --hard (Re: Implicit stashes)

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

John Tapsell wrote:

> $ git reset --hard
>
> I know this seems very explicit to delete changes, but I myself have
> done this and accidentally lost changes.  For example, I write a unit
> test and don't commit it in on purpose because I know that it
> currently fails and I want to test it against older versions.  I
> carefully git checkout older versions to find if the unit test fails,
> then in stupidity reset back to origin/master ..

Aside: I assume you already know about it, but still I cannot help but
take the opportunity to advertise ‘git reset --keep’.  I was added
fairly recently (1.7.1 rc0) and I find myself annoyed when on machines
without it because of almost exactly this use case.

Stephan and Christian: thanks for writing it.