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From a certain point of view - isn't this exactly what happened here?
I often go into a Git worktree of one of my projects and mess around a bit to try something out. If I find it's not working, I tell git to discard the changes with
git checkout .andgit clean -df. What I'm saying is exactly “on second thought, don’t do anything" - while what happens in practice is that Git restores all files to theirHEADstatus and removes all the new files that are not already inHEAD.Of course, the difference is that I already have all the work I want to keep under source control, so these changes I've discarded really were that - just changes. He, on the other hand, "was just playing with the source control option" - so these "changes" he was discarding really were all his work. But Git did not know that.