git workflow for D

[Basile B.]

On Monday, 4 December 2017 at 04:45:01 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> On Monday, 4 December 2017 at 01:54:57 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> Basile B. wrote:
>>
>>> On Sunday, 3 December 2017 at 22:22:47 UTC, Arun 
>>> Chandrasekaran wrote:
>>>> Git CLI is arcane and esoteric. I've lost my commits before 
>>>> (yeah, my mistake).
>>>
>>> Who hasn't ;)
>> me.
>>
>>> Happened to me last time because i tried a command supposed 
>>> to remove untracked files in submodules...but used "reset" in 
>>> a wrong way... ouch.
>
> "git reflog". nothing commited is *ever* lost until you do "git 
> gc".
>

Actually (and i reply to ketmar too) i've never lost commits 
either. What 's happened to me is that i lost non-validated stuff 
in the staging area b/c as you noticed otherwise it would be 
recoverable.

Now i use "git submodule foreach git clean -f" to clean 
submodules.