Why should I use good source control versioning system?

[Fr0sT.Brutal 897]

On 8/15/2020 at 1:52 PM, Anders Melander said:

Git is a powerful tool but when you shoot yourself in the foot with it it leaves a rather large hole.

I would argue on that. Several times I accidentally got my commits overridden and restored them undamaged with git reflog.

[Anders Melander 1638]

2 minutes ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

I would argue on that. Several times I accidentally got my commits overridden and restored them undamaged with git reflog.

I think you just proved my point there.

I'm not saying that you can't get out of trouble. I'm saying it's rather easy to get into trouble. The challenge is figuring out how to do that.

https://ohshitgit.com/

[Fr0sT.Brutal 897]

4 minutes ago, Anders Melander said:

I'm not saying that you can't get out of trouble. I'm saying it's rather easy to get into trouble

Well, that cases were my mistakes. Unmarked heads disappear from history when checking out another branch. Will other VCS allow to recover from this situation?

Of course Git is too brutal sometimes, just like any serious *nix tool. But it does its best to warn you when you're about to shoot yourself in the leg 😄

[Vincent Parrett 657]

11 minutes ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

But it does its best to warn you when you're about to shoot yourself in the leg

There's a reason this site exists https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ 😉 

[Lars Fosdal 1731]

7 minutes ago, Vincent Parrett said:

There's a reason this site exists https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ 😉 

Oh Emm Gee - that was scary 😄