Yeah learned this the hard way.
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I've had juniors who didn't believe this, so just to say it: If you know what you're doing, practically any Git problem is recoverable.
The one major exception is if you delete your local changes before committing them.
Fun fact! If you added a file but never committed it you can still recover it with
git fsck --lost-and-found. The changes were still added to the git object store, and by grepping through the dangling blobs you can find the object containing the changes you care about.