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I am a big fan of git but honestly, if you can't recognize that there are unlikeable things about it you're suffering from some kind of stockholm syndrome. Just start with the fact that several of the most common actions / commands are named in ways that are either directly misleading or at very least severely conflict with standard use of common version control terms.

(one of my favorite, for example, is that `git checkout` causes silent data loss while every other git command will print out giant errors in that scenario)




You can't checkout if you have tracked changes. If you mean you lose untracked changes, then a) it's unsolvable in the general case unless we all start doing out-of-source builds, so don't have to worry about build artefacts and b) it's already solved by git-worktree, so if you haven't RTFM, adding new features won't matter anyway.




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