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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: why is git destructive by default? (i suggest it not be!)
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:59:37 +0300
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David Jeske wrote (2008-06-24 01:47 -0000):

> As a new user, I'm finding git difficult to trust, because there are
> operations which are destructive by default and capable of
> inadvertently throwing hours or days of work into the bit bucket.

I'm also quite new and I actually feel safe using git, and it's because
of reflog. No matter what I do (except manual reflog expire) I can see
where I was before with command

  git log --walk-reflogs

and get everything back. I have needed it a couple of times. So the
safety net is there, one just has to learn to trust it. :-)

Git is much safer than the standard Unix tools like rm, mv and cp.