Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad

I screw up plenty, so I'm no stranger to apologizing to my partner. However, I could certainly take a page from the original poster. My apologies lack a certain degree of class!

Which git sort-of does (reflog). And then, after it prevented you from shooting yourself into the foot, it gives you a loaded Howitzer pointed at your face. (git reflog expire/git prune/git gc)

I love git dearly, but that's still a large flaw in its design. There is no reason to ever lose history.

Of course, somebody still has to know and care enough to want to tweak the default configuration, and it doesn't help with GitHub for the moment, but I wouldn't be surprised if they added finer-grained branch permissions in future.

The -f should mean "don't do this, it will probably wreck your shit". Unfortunately certain tools seem to require it way too often so it seems to be going the way of the venerable confirm dialog.

"Deleted all my files? I dunno, some funny box popped up and I hit OK. Was that it?"

Git uses local, cloned repositories and users can do everything they like with them. Changes can be pushed and pulled to other repositories, possibly changing them irreversibly.

By using github you use GIT in a (kind of) centralized way. Suddenly there is an 'central project repository' again, that needs to be protected against damage. But as GIT was never meant to do this, and trusts its users, it has to be bolted on somehow... at least, that's how I understand it.

I hope they will get this right as it's very important for accountability.