The Coffee Catastrophe

David is in the zone, headphones on, fingers flying across the keyboard as he refactors a critical component of the company's codebase. Six hours into his coding session, he's made remarkable progress, transforming spaghetti code into a clean, maintainable architecture. He hasn't committed anything yet because he wants to make sure everything works perfectly before creating a pull request. Reaching for his mug without looking, his hand clips the edge, sending a full cup of coffee cascading across his laptop keyboard. The screen flickers, then goes black. After the initial panic and paper towel frenzy, David connects his laptop to an external monitor, but it's too late—the internal drive has suffered damage from the liquid intrusion. The IT department informs him they can replace his machine, but the local data is likely lost. The blood drains from David's face as he realizes six hours of intensive refactoring now exists only in his memory. He'll have to start over entirely, trying to recreate his elegant solution while the deadline looms ever closer. If David had been using Xferro, every significant change would have been automatically committed and pushed to a remote branch, making his local machine's failure an inconvenience rather than a catastrophe. He could simply pull his recovery branch onto a new laptop and continue working with minimal interruption, perhaps losing only the last few minutes of work instead of an entire day's effort.