Flight rules for Git
It never ceases to amaze me that:1. Git, a software product with more footguns per square inch of user-exposed surface than any I've ever encountered, ended up winning the distributed VCS sweepstakes; and2. Even now, more than five years after it was clear to everyone that Git had won, there is absolutely no momentum to go back and clean it up to remove any of those footguns. All we get instead are increasingly shiny GUIs to hide them under, and well-meaning blog posts advising you on which is the best kind of tourniquet to apply when you trigger one of the aforementioned footguns.Sigh.