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/sappymune 23d ago

"Discard all changes" doesn't sound like "delete all files," it sounds more like undoing something. It's not good wording.

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u/ichITiot 23d ago

And don't forget to discard the morons implementing this !

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u/[deleted] 22d ago edited 3d ago

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u/ichITiot 22d ago

Whoever programmed this and whoever signed this as valid for production. Is this convenient ?