I appreciate that she acknowledges that rebase is a weird thing to do to a branch. I know it’s an ordinary part of many folks’ workflows, but it’s such a footgun.
Many hosts allow you to set rules to protect branches from getting their commits removed in the remote (in fact, I think that’s the default for gitlab main branches) or to prevent people from pushing their commits to them directly.
I expect even “the main branch has to stay more or less in sync with origin/main” can be automated… though it might not be what you always want, depending how you work.I think that’s treading into “GitLab/Hub/Bitbucket/etc. are not git” territory. Good feature, but not in the product that the post is about.
Still glad you mentioned it, though-- Maybe someone just learned about it because of you.
is reflog very unfriendly UI? what would make it better?
Basic literacy
I’m not sure how one would reach reflog the ability to read or write
Reflog has saved my ass many times.
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