We’ve all tried it. We get our Git repository in some inconsistent and irreconcilable state. We have found many solutions on Stack Overflow and hesitantly pasted into our command lines. But after each attempt at getting back to a sane state, we feel ourselves sliding further and further away from resolving our Git problem. So we delete our local repository, clone the repository, and start over. I know I have been in that situation more than once. This situation is widespread and is symptomatic of a lack of intuition about how Git works. We tend to choose the path of least resistance, and in Git terms, that ...
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