Git's way to the thrashcan

I tried to use git-svn and git for a while, only to get fed up with it today and going back to just using subversion. The thing that pissed me off is that I did git rm on wrong files. With subversion, if you do svn revert before commit, the old copy of the file gets restored (and, of course, removal will not be scheduled for commit).

With git, git checkout should, in theory, do the same. Googling about the problem, I found a tip that I should use git reset. However, neither did that restore the accidentally deleted files. Finaly, I experimented a bit and found out that git reset --hard does the trick. Before experimenting, I did, of course, make a backup of the whole repository to another place.

Now, I'm going back to subversion, which is much more intuitive to use. My work is too valuable to be stored in version control system with which I must experiment to achieve even the simplest of operatons. Yes, I found the --hard option in the documentation, but its explanation was so opaque that I wasn't sure whether it would achieve what I wanted.

Next time I'll be wanting to use a DVCS, I'll use Mercurial, as before.