> Surely we can do better than this? A tool being powerful should be no excuse for it having footguns!
Of course we can but they all lost the vcs wars so we’re left with git, a chainsaw you can’t shut down with hooked spikes bolted to the handle and an old “handle with care” sticker long gone unstuck and slipped under one of the shop’s cabinets.
Personally I am not interested to learn "proper git". It's plumbing and not an end goal.
When I start working on something, I do a pull and then create a branch. Then I make edits to the files I need and save a copy of them locally.
If then something goes awry with my commit/push/MR/whatever, I delete the repo, clone it, create a new branch, using human intelligence re-apply my changes from the local copies and try again.
