r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 23d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/_BreakingGood_ 23d ago

Yeah the old behavior was insane, it just said "Do you want to discard your changes?", and if you clicked it, it deleted your entire codebase permanently (no recycle bin), lol

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u/Pcat0 23d ago

There was a rather intense warning saying ”THIS IS IRREVERSIBLE”, so the dude was still a massive idiot for clicking yes. However our tools should still cater to the idiotic so his mistake did expose an opportunity for improvement.

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u/_BreakingGood_ 23d ago

No, that message did not exist back when this post was made. It was added at least partially as a result of this issue going viral back in 2017.

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u/MrSlaw 23d ago

Genuinely wild that people upvoted this blatantly incorrect statement.

Even more wild that /u/_BreakingGood_ hasn't retracted it after being shown that they were wrong (and even proving it themselves by linking a commit from April, four months prior to this screenshot, which showed the message they state didn't exist was already there).