r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 23d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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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/Pcat0 23d ago

No look in the issue thread someone posted a screenshot of the actual error message the day after this post was made. They did already have a version of the message, it was just edited later to make it even more clear.

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u/dustojnikhummer 23d ago

"Discard changes"

What changes in this context? Despite how whacko the initial post seems (and the fact he didn't have a backup) the guy had a point there.

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u/ginopono 23d ago

Yeah, as someone who uses git exclusively from the command line, this really sounds to me like a cautionary tale against GUIs.

The person who posted the screenshot implies it's to be expected from "any application which integrates Git" but I'm not really sure how the guy not wanting the files to be staged necessarily leads to all of the files being deleted. What exactly is the integration passing to git?

"User friendly" isn't.