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Dev tools · September 20, 2016

Oh, Shit, Git!

Bad situations with Git, and how got out of them.

Oh, Shit, Git! launched on September 20, 2016 with 4 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.

What it does

Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can't search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about in order to fix your problem. So here are some bad situations I've gotten myself into, and how I eventually got myself out of them in plain english . You can use this to get back stuff you accidentally deleted, or just to remove some stuff you tried that broke the repo, or to recover after a bad merge, or just to go back to a time when things actually worked. I use reflog A LOT. Mega hat tip to the many many many…from ohshitgit.com

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