Git Disaster Lab

Rejected pushes, conflicts, undo, and leaked secrets.

YOU CHANGED THE WRONG FILE.

You edited something you didn't mean to and haven't committed it yet.

think first

The change only exists in your working directory. Git still has the last committed version safe.

consequences before commands

git restore permanently discards uncommitted work in that file. There is no undo — Git never saw it, so Git cannot bring it back.

Almost nothing in Git is truly lost once it has been committed. The dangerous operations are the ones that touch work Git has never seen, or history other people rely on. Learn to tell those two apart and Git stops being frightening.

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