Prompt for confirmation before executing "git reset --hard" [duplicate]

Question

Unstaged, uncommitted changes are lost after running "git reset --hard HEAD". Can I configure git to ask for confirmation before running this (potentially destructive) command?

Answer 1

put

git() {
    if [ "$1" = "rebase" ] && [ "$2" = "--hard" ] && [ "$3" = "HEAD" ] ; then
        echo "are you being a moron again?"
        read i
        if [ "$i" = "no" ]; then
             command git $@
        fi
     fi
}

in your ${HOME}/.profile

Update: while this is one way to solve the problem, I prefer to make a branch backup when I am not entirely confident about the history rewriting operation I'm about to do. I achieve the backup by either force purshing to a WIP branch on remote or using git-branch-backup