I don’t fully trust source control systems. Not even Git. That’s because I’m an old fella in the industry and I’ve been bitten too many times to fully trust systems.
Point in hand. I just had a merge from ‘develop’ royally screw up some code in such a way the effort to find and fix the change is greater than the effort to just blow away my working branch and pull again from remote.
Pro Tip!
When merging from another branch like ‘develop’ into your working branch, first commit and push your changes to remote.
That way, when your merge screws something up without you realising until after you’ve re-compiled and tested the merge – you do re-compile and test your merges right? – you can reset or blow away the branch (even delete your local branch and pull again if need be) without losing your hard-won changes.