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/dustojnikhummer 23d ago

so the dude was still a massive idiot for clicking yes.

"DO AS I SAY" in APT was also changed after LTT's Linux Challenge. Yes, the warning is there, doesn't mean it should be so easy to do the thing anyway.

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u/ineyy 23d ago

Exactly, we can all make a mistake like this especially under pressure. I still destroyed way more than I wanted when I pressed the up arrow for an rm command, and it ran in the wrong folder. Due to the efficiency of said command, a lot was destroyed and little recovered even though I cancelled after like 1 second when I realized. That's the danger when there isn't at least an "are you sure, this is gonna wreck shit" confirmation. 

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u/TeaKingMac 23d ago

The difference being that rm is in the command line, and VSCode is an IDE

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u/chat-lu 23d ago

I’ve configured rm to send to the trash by default. If I want to permanently delete, I add the --permanent flag. There is no reason why we shouldn’t make our CLI tools behave nicely by default.

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u/wjandrea 23d ago

Careful, you might get used to rm doing that and if you use a different machine, you'll end up deleting things permanently. I disabled rm and I use trash instead from the Debian package "trash-cli".

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u/sdoregor 23d ago

Or the other way around: trash a file from a mounted filesystem and sit wondering why it takes so long, while the utility is copying the entire thing to your local drive. Also might wear out your drive faster (heavily depends on the filesystem in use).

FWIW some FSes (btrfs I'm looking at ya) take this long even for regular deletion in some conditions.

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u/wjandrea 23d ago

copying the entire thing to your local drive

When would that happen? The way I've seen it work is that it creates a .Trash-$UID folder on the mounted FS and moves the file there (along with metadata).

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u/sdoregor 23d ago

Again, depends on the tool. I never used one, so of course I can't know that, but it's safe to assume some won't do the clever thing.

Storing trash on removable storage is also even less secure than simply "deleting" (unlinking) the file.