That Moment You See ‘Deleting…’ in Git Bash

The Fear of Using Git Bash Too Early in Your Dev Journey When I first started learning development about six months ago, Git Bash felt like stepping into a control room full of buttons I didn’t understand. I had connected Git to my local VS Code environment and thought: “Okay, this must be what developers use… I’ll just follow along.” The problem was that I didn’t actually understand the commands I was running. One day I ran a command in Git Bash and suddenly my terminal started printing lines that included words like “deleting”. My brain instantly went into panic mode. Not deleting in the repo. Deleting in my actual Windows file system. Inside my /htdocs/ folder. At that moment I realised something important about Git: Git is powerful — but if you don’t understand what a command does, it can be terrifying. I aborted the command as quickly as I could, but by then the damage had already started. For a few seconds I genuinely thought I had just lost my entire working project. Thankfully,