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The only time I've wound up with a steaming mess was when I was first learning Git. I've been using it for 5 years now, and have done some pretty crazy things with it, and yet haven't screwed up the master branch since then. However to get to that point I had to read "Version Control with Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development" (this was after royally fucking up and not wanting to get fired).

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Basically Tuesday was the weekly deploy day. Master got screwed up from both a code perspective (incorrect conflict resolution), and then my fixes to rewrite history messed things up even more, blocking the release. Basically I didn't understand how Git worked (and me nor anyone else at my company apparently knew about reflogs).

And they'd fire you over that? Woa, horrid place.

Well I wasn't scared of being fired for that one mistake. But I didn't want to make it again, because after the second time you've just shown yourself to be an ass. Most places I've worked at are like "we allow you to make mistakes, but not the same mistake twice."

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