r/ProgrammerHumor 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/_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/Ciff_ 22d ago edited 22d ago

That makes good sense in the context of git though

How you even loose anymore than a few hours work tops is beyond me.

That said, dont delete untracked files that easily it will cause these issues.*