I’ve often ended up guessing what things do and messing things up.
One example is when I couldn’t remember the difference between git checkout -b and git checkout -B, so in my infinite wisdom I decided to use -B because surely capital letters are better! Tried using it to switch back to a branch, and… Yeah, that was annoying.
What I said was not absolute nor complete. It only includes one set of things to be careful with. The f flag is another that you should be wary of using without understanding what it does.
I’ve often ended up guessing what things do and messing things up.
One example is when I couldn’t remember the difference between
git checkout -bandgit checkout -B, so in my infinite wisdom I decided to use-Bbecause surely capital letters are better! Tried using it to switch back to a branch, and… Yeah, that was annoying.I would say capital letters tend to be more destructive. So I would not blindly useful them without knowing what they do first.
the f (and r) in rm -rf: am I a joke to you
What I said was not absolute nor complete. It only includes one set of things to be careful with. The
fflag is another that you should be wary of using without understanding what it does.Lessons from this thread: