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MixedClaude Code · 21 Jan 2026

Today Claude decided to checkout a git commit from yesterday and all local unstaged changed were lost

holoduke on Hacker News

Lost 6 hours of work

In the thread “Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)”, replying to this comment

Helped: Full access and root privileges allow it to do everything.

Got in the way: Claude checked out a git commit, losing all local unstaged changes.

… For me yes. Today Claude decided to checkout a git commit from yesterday and all local unstaged changed were lost. Annoying mistake. …