fixing_mistakes.md

When you make a mistale

You will make mistakes no matter what. The worst mistake is not even trying. This document has recommendations for when you made smaller mistakes:

You pushed your mistake to the shared repo

You added a junk file and only added it, but did not commit

You changed stuff, but did not want to commit it

You are completely lost with git

Shared your mistake

shared

You went all the way and pushed a mistake up to the shared repo. Don't worry. You can rewind, just do it as soon as possible. git log will show you your last commits with an id has. git revert <commit_id> will roll the changes back on to the step you put in the commit_id for locally. Now just push your local changes again.

You added incorrect files but did not commit your mistake

added

You just added a bunch of stuff you should not have. No worries! Just remove them (like go to the local files on your machines and move them away) then go git status and start the cycle again.

You changed files but did not want commit your tinkering

not_adding

You just modified a bunch of stuff and you should not have the modifications up on the main repo. When you type git status you see this and you want to go back. No worries, just git restore <file_name>

You have gotten lost with git

lost

You have entered some kind of version-control nightmare or git based mess. Git is telling you to do stange things that make no sense to you. Stop. If you aren't sure what something does, you can go to a different terminal, and type git help. Follow the instructions.