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I wonder how many hours have been wasted on fixing mistakes made on git. Recently, I watch a friend spend two days try and figure out what the junior Devs have done with commits and branches

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Yeah, that's the tragic thing about git. It's so easy to get the wrong idea or fumble on the easily forgettable garbage CLI semantics and make mistakes. Even experienced people make mistakes if they try do something that's different from their daily grind.

To make it worse, correcting mistakes ALSO is something that's not done regularly-- so that becomes an obstacle as well.

From my experience, I'd say it's negligible compared to number of hours saved by git.

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