The Realization
Everything's flowing. You're coding like a beast, making commits like "final-final-fix-really-this-time", pushing every 15 minutes like GitHub is a diary.
Then boom — you check the branch.
main.
Not feature/fix-navbar.
Not bug/hotfix-layout.
Nah... main.
Your soul quietly exits your body. You just spent 4 hours rewriting components, adding animations, changing styles... on the wrong branch. No wonder the CI/CD gods haven't smiled on you today.
Now you're panicking. Opening Git Graph. Copying files to clipboard. Cherry-picking commits like it's a buffet. And don't even lie — you've definitely opened another terminal and typed git status like five times just to feel something.
Then comes the damage control:
- Rename the branch like you meant to do it all along ✅
- Pull from main like a pro (and pray nothing breaks) ✅
- Tell your teammates "just a small refactor" when you've changed half the app ✅
Honestly? At this point, you deserve a badge of survival. Git is powerful, yeah — but Git is also petty. And it will humble you.
So next time? Check the branch first. Before you write a single line. Or don't — and enjoy the adrenaline rush like the rest of us.