A person who isn’t “good at” word processors will use it both when they change their mind and when the program doesn’t do what they want (e.g. I didn’t realize that I had a text selection before I started typing and now my selected text is deleted). It’s the same with git, and now we are just arguing about what’s “typical”. An example of when I change my mind about what I told the program to do, maybe when rebasing I decide my merge resolution wasn’t actually what I wanted. That is certainly in the “user changed their mind” class of error.
I’m not saying git has a great user interface that users intuitively grok and rarely make mistakes in. But I am saying that having an undo button is not an admission of that, either.
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A person who isn’t “good at” word processors will use it both when they change their mind and when the program doesn’t do what they want (e.g. I didn’t realize that I had a text selection before I started typing and now my selected text is deleted). It’s the same with git, and now we are just arguing about what’s “typical”. An example of when I change my mind about what I told the program to do, maybe when rebasing I decide my merge resolution wasn’t actually what I wanted. That is certainly in the “user changed their mind” class of error.
I’m not saying git has a great user interface that users intuitively grok and rarely make mistakes in. But I am saying that having an undo button is not an admission of that, either.