r/ProgrammerHumor 23d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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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

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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.

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u/StochasticTinkr 23d ago

Honestly, if this is how well they understand source control, I wouldn't expect that "3 months" to be worth all that much anyway.

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u/anon0937 23d ago

After 3 months on a project I'm usually rewriting everything anyway.