Your Git horror stories

3 years ago by canpolat to c/git

We all have been there... For the beginner it's easy to mess things up. What are your horror stories with Git?

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object_Object 9 points 3 years ago

A developer had force pushed changes to remove some secrets from the repo. Then another developer who had missed the part about the cleanup saw the errors during git push and proceeded to just merge the changes. Cue absolutely fucked commit history where you had all commits twice with individual change commits sprinkled between both.

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