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[–] cocobean@bookwormstory.social 32 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Also, why not send them to the recycle bin? I never really thought about it before, but that does seem a reasonable UX improvement for this case

[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago

I wonder if there's already a git extension to automatically stash the working tree on every clean/reset/checkout operation...

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Because “the underlying Git nukes them right away, so why shouldn’t we perma-delete the files, too?”

Anything else’d be effort…

[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 6 points 2 hours ago

Honestly it probably just runs the underlying git command