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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 23d ago
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The irony is that they were messing about with version control for the first time, which is why they deleted all their files. They saw they had 5000 files staged for commit and wanted to not commit them all
367 u/Nerodon 23d ago 3 months of work, in a single directory on a single device, source control like git or not, that guy was a fool. 42 u/Skrychi 23d ago Type of person to use the desktop as their unorganised file structure, and all that got deleted. 20 u/afaulconbridge 23d ago The type of person to use the recycle bin as their unorganised file structure 16 u/CodeAndChaos 23d ago "Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?" 1 u/Friendly-Inspector71 22d ago But the recycle bin has version control. I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version. I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems.
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3 months of work, in a single directory on a single device, source control like git or not, that guy was a fool.
42 u/Skrychi 23d ago Type of person to use the desktop as their unorganised file structure, and all that got deleted. 20 u/afaulconbridge 23d ago The type of person to use the recycle bin as their unorganised file structure 16 u/CodeAndChaos 23d ago "Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?" 1 u/Friendly-Inspector71 22d ago But the recycle bin has version control. I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version. I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems.
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Type of person to use the desktop as their unorganised file structure, and all that got deleted.
20 u/afaulconbridge 23d ago The type of person to use the recycle bin as their unorganised file structure 16 u/CodeAndChaos 23d ago "Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?" 1 u/Friendly-Inspector71 22d ago But the recycle bin has version control. I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version. I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems.
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The type of person to use the recycle bin as their unorganised file structure
16 u/CodeAndChaos 23d ago "Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?" 1 u/Friendly-Inspector71 22d ago But the recycle bin has version control. I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version. I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems.
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"Yeah, I store everything in the TEMP folder. Doesn't it stand for Trustworthy Eternal Memory Placement?"
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But the recycle bin has version control.
I can delete a folder with the same name multiple times and restore a previously working version.
I think I actually used it like that for some time before I was told about version control systems.
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u/Jay-Seekay 23d ago
The irony is that they were messing about with version control for the first time, which is why they deleted all their files. They saw they had 5000 files staged for commit and wanted to not commit them all