I need to look into this.

Just yesterday I lost some work (only maybe 10 minutes worth) when I was updating my org notes. I staged some files, committed them, but made a typo in the commit message. I ended up reverting the commit when I meant to amend. Then I discarded the the staged reverted changes and noticed the status said I was still reverting. So I looked up the command to get me out of that state. I ran 'git revert --abort' and it blew away my unstaged changes. Ah well, those versioned backups I have Emacs do are going to save me this time, or so I thought.