UNSTABLE BY DESIGN

Oh shit. What did you push?

Your repository is probably fine. Your career? Not so sure.

FIX MY FUCKING GIT Generate an excuse

Emergency tools for unfortunate developers.

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TERMINAL — PRODUCTION

$ git push --force origin main

Enumerating objects: 42

Writing objects: 100%

✖ Remote: Production is crying.

→ Initiating damage control...

// Emergency kit

Everything you need after a bad push

Git Emergency

Step-by-step procedures to recover a branch, undo a commit, find lost changes or repair an accidental push.

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Git Toolbox

A .gitignore generator, an excuse generator and other utilities that save your day (or at least your face).

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Excuse Generator

Explain to your team why production is down. Professional, sarcastic or dramatic.

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Git Academy

Tutorials and mini-guides to understand Git and stop making the classic mistakes.

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Hall of Shame

Anonymous confessions of developers who did worse than you. You are not alone.

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Copy & Paste

Ready-to-copy commands with plain explanations and their risk level.

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Funny on the outside. Serious on the inside.

Every recovery command is rated by risk. Destructive ones come with warnings and backup advice. Laugh at your mistake, learn something, actually save your repository.

● safe — git reflog
● caution — git revert <sha>
● destructive — git reset --hard

The Fucking Git Dictionary

git push --force: Gamble with your career.
git reset --hard: Make your problems disappear. And your work.
git stash: Sweep your problems under the rug.
git reflog: Your last hope.
git cherry-pick: Steal a commit with elegance.
git blame: Find someone to blame. Find yourself.

Read the full dictionary

PUSH FIRST. PANIC LATER.

Your repository. Our condolences.