Local and Remote Destructive Operations

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>> Nina Zakharenko: Hopefully you all were able to grab a fork of my repository, and update your remotes to point to it. We're gonna use this a little bit later for a different exercise.
>> Nina Zakharenko: Before our final wrap up, where we're gonna talk about GitHub a little bit more. I wanna reiterate the dangerous zone.

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So these are all the local destructive operations that you might be able to take. git checkout -- file, git reset -- hard. In this case, if you do one of these operations on files that have changes, there's no path to recovery unless you had a copy somewhere else.

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I highly recommend stashing them. If you're lucky and you stash the changes, that's great. But really for this reason, remember to commit early and often. It's a great. You can always clean up your local history at any point in time.
>> Nina Zakharenko: Destructive operations for a remote, rewriting history, rebase, amend, reset.

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If you do any of these things, don't ever run git push -f if your code is hosted or shared. Super important.