Re: Support for an interactive confirmation prompt when users can possibly lose their work like some UNIX commands

[Pratyush Yadav <me@yadavpratyush.com>]

On 27/08/19 09:53AM, Vipul wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sometimes, I messed-up with git repository and lost works due
> carelessness. This includes reset a branch instead of other, drop the
> stash etc by mistake. I wonder, is there way to a get an interactive
> confirmation prompt (which ask for yes/no option) before executing those
> commands when users can possibly lose their work? Like, some UNIX
> commands have support for an interactive prompt (like 'rm -i', 'mv -i',
> 'cp -i', etc) for ex: before deleting and overwriting a file a
> confirmation is prompt and asking for users permission.
> 	If there would no such feature available in git, so how do other people
> avoid these kind of mistakes? Obviously, one them would be recheck the
> command carefully before executing it and repo status but, I think
> sometimes people also do these kind of mistakes. For now, to minimize
> some of these kind problems I've modified my bash shell prompt to show
> all kind information related to a git repository by sourcing
> "git-prompt" script (provided with git package) and turn on all of flags
> provided by it which significantly increase my productivity and less
> mistakes than earlier. But, anything else I can do to avoid these kind
> of mistakes at first place or increase my productivity (it includes
> adopting some best practices, using some command line tools etc).
>   	I searched it on the Internet and found that there are many GUI tools
> available which help with these problems but don't want to use GUI tools
> because most of time I work in command line environment and love using
> command line tool than GUI one.
 
On top of Jeff's great answer, I'll add that I try to not keep my work 
local for too long. I usually push out changes, even when they are WIP, 
to a fork kept on a server somewhere (GitHub for my personal projects). 
This way, if I mess up something real bad, I can clone the repo from the 
server and recover my work, at least partially.

[snip]

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Regards,
Pratyush Yadav