> This might result in some very messy situations.

It doesn’t. Claude is far better and faster at this than anyone I’ve met in person. And you can work in any part of the source as though you were working alone, with all the numerous benefits of git.

Why would you not just try it on a disposable repo instead of continuing in fear? The thing about git is it is actually very very hard to do something that destroys anything because it is distributed. Make a repo. Clone it to two places. Do whatever you want including things that force push and overwrite history in origin. Then restore it from the other repo you cloned.

> Clone it to two places.

Failing to do this is not "very, very" hard