Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can't search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about in order to fix your problem.

So here are some bad situations I've gotten myself into, and how I eventually got myself out of them in plain english.

Collecting benchmark results is the first step to solving disk I/O performance problems. Unfortunately, many bug reports and performance investigations fall down at the first step because bogus benchmark data is collected. This post explains common mistakes when running disk I/O benchmarks.