Git Recovery Moves at Your Fingertips
Recall the safest Git recovery move for common local and shared-history situations.
"Just reset it hard." You have useful uncommitted edits plus one bad staged file. Your line "First I will preserve the working tree, then unstage or restore only the bad file." Hard reset changes tracked files and can discard work you meant to keep. The response slows the command down until the state to preserve is explicit. Pressure line Local rewrite or shared undo? Use local rewrites only when the affected history is truly yours to rewrite. Compare What does git restore --staged file protect? It removes the file from the index while keeping the working-tree content. Useful when the…
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