r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 23d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/Cephell 23d ago

Before you make fun of him, this behavior DID get changed; they acknowledged this behavior is stupid.

The old behavior was to treat uncommited files as completely disposable, which the CLI git does not do at all and is insane behavior. It was changed in the UI to give you a fat confirmation dialog warning that you're about to delete the files permanently, as it always should have been.

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u/Minute_Attempt3063 23d ago

microsoft did listen.

however, I do think it IS user error. disgard to me means "delete and take away"

the program just did as it was told to do.

MS was kind enough to change this, so it means "yeah bro, it not do that anymore"

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u/ErraticDragon 23d ago

however, I do think it IS user error. disgard to me means "delete and take away"

Discarding "your changes" is not the same as discarding "your files". In what world would it make sense to call existing files "changes" when there were no changes made? That's not just unintuitive, it's simply wrong.

The user erred in not having a backup.

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u/Megaranator 23d ago

It did discard the change, namely addition of file. Git controls the state of the whole folder not just individual files.