4 Git Habits That Save You From Losing Work Ever Again
Learn the simple Git habits that prevent lost code, reduce mistakes, and build confidence with commits, branches, safe rollbacks, and Git history you can trust.
If you want your team to love you and appreciate you, then you should always push your code to the main branch…
Please do not do that, ever.
Git is a tool that needs to be understood, it’s also a tool that took me longer than it should have for me to use properly. Now after all this time, I want to look at ways to prevent you from losing your code and optimizing your flow.
Losing work hurts in a very specific way. It is not just about the time you lost. It is the momentum. You were in a groove. You had the whole picture in your head. You knew why that line of code existed and why it was written that way.
When that work disappears, rebuilding it never feels right. Even if you manage to recreate it, it takes more effort and it rarely feels as clean or as sharp as the first time.
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Almost every dev has a story like this. A laptop crashes. A bad merge wipes things out. A force push hits the wrong branch. A quick experiment goes wrong right before a deadline.
These stories are so common that people joke about them like they are a rite of passage. They should not be. Git already gives you everything you need to protect your work. The issue is not Git itself. The issue is how most people use it.
This article is about four Git habits that quietly remove that fear. They are not advanced tricks. They do not slow you down.
In fact, they usually make you faster because you stop working with that constant worry in the back of your mind. When you know you can always roll back, you try more things. When you try more things, your code gets better.
What this really gives you is confidence. Confidence that you can undo mistakes. Confidence that branching is safe. Confidence to take risks, knowing your work is protected.
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