• justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    You don’t need it on a server even. For simple versioning just use a local git repo without any bells and stuff

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      16 hours ago

      True, I used the remote to access the code from other machines and/or as a remote backup. If you don’t need that, there’s no need for a server.

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      One of the most useful features is rolling back from origin when you’ve borked your local repo (not that I ever have…)

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        I’m not that accustomed with it myself, so my question: how can you bork your local repo so you can’t roll back? Did you tinker in the .git folder? xD

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          There are many ways. Like the other user said, fucking up a merge/rebase then fucking up the merge abort.

          Or (one of my personal favorites) accidentally typing git reset --hard HEAD~11 instead of HEAD~1

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          I’ve had colleagues who’d panic when they had merge conflicts, then fuck something up, remove the whole dir and create a new clone. If you’re competent I don’t think it should be necessary.