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Most mistakes you make with git can be fixed. If you’ve ever committed your code, you can get it back. That’s what the rest of this zine is about!

Here are the dangerous git commands: the ones that throw away uncommitted work.

  • git reset --hard COMMIT
  • Throws away uncommitted changes
  • Points current branch at COMMIT

Very useful, but be careful to commit first if you don’t want to lose your changes

  • git clean

Deletes files that aren’t tracked by Git.

  • git checkout BRANCH FILE (or directory)

Replaces FILE with the version from BRANCH.
Will overwrite uncommitted changes.

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