On 27/08/19 09:53AM, Vipul wrote: > Hi, > > Sometimes, I messed-up with git repository and lost works due > carelessness. This includes reset a branch instead of other, drop the > stash etc by mistake. I wonder, is there way to a get an interactive > confirmation prompt (which ask for yes/no option) before executing those > commands when users can possibly lose their work? Like, some UNIX > commands have support for an interactive prompt (like 'rm -i', 'mv -i', > 'cp -i', etc) for ex: before deleting and overwriting a file a > confirmation is prompt and asking for users permission. > If there would no such feature available in git, so how do other people > avoid these kind of mistakes? Obviously, one them would be recheck the > command carefully before executing it and repo status but, I think > sometimes people also do these kind of mistakes. For now, to minimize > some of these kind problems I've modified my bash shell prompt to show > all kind information related to a git repository by sourcing > "git-prompt" script (provided with git package) and turn on all of flags > provided by it which significantly increase my productivity and less > mistakes than earlier. But, anything else I can do to avoid these kind > of mistakes at first place or increase my productivity (it includes > adopting some best practices, using some command line tools etc). > I searched it on the Internet and found that there are many GUI tools > available which help with these problems but don't want to use GUI tools > because most of time I work in command line environment and love using > command line tool than GUI one. On top of Jeff's great answer, I'll add that I try to not keep my work local for too long. I usually push out changes, even when they are WIP, to a fork kept on a server somewhere (GitHub for my personal projects). This way, if I mess up something real bad, I can clone the repo from the server and recover my work, at least partially. [snip] -- Regards, Pratyush Yadav
