How do you find the right commit from a month ago to reflog to?
How do you determine which combination of changes are yours, and not accidentally undo changes that other developers made in the last month?
Could git reflog have helped? Maybe sometimes. If we had the foresight to have saved the right commits from the past, sure. I think we did start saving old branches just in case it happened again, but then we had to sort through a month of changes to figure out what to keep, what to change, and what conflicts there might be.
Remember, the person screwing up didn't know he screwed up. And the person trying to fix it is doing so a long time after the fact. It was a disaster.
How do you determine which combination of changes are yours, and not accidentally undo changes that other developers made in the last month?
Could git reflog have helped? Maybe sometimes. If we had the foresight to have saved the right commits from the past, sure. I think we did start saving old branches just in case it happened again, but then we had to sort through a month of changes to figure out what to keep, what to change, and what conflicts there might be.
Remember, the person screwing up didn't know he screwed up. And the person trying to fix it is doing so a long time after the fact. It was a disaster.