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[–] _____@lemm.ee 17 points 41 minutes ago

let's turn this into a constructive angle for future devs and current juniors: just learn git cli, I promise you it is much simpler than it seems.

all those memes about git having like a thousand commands are true, but you really will only use like 7 at most per month.

learn push, pull, merge, squash, stash, reset, im probably missing like one or two

I promise you again: it is much simpler than it seems. and you won't have to use these stupid git GUI things, and it will save you a hassle because you will know what commands you are running and what they do

short disclaimer: using git GUI is totally fine but low-key you are missing out on so much

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 20 minutes ago

I fucking HATE when abstractions over git use cutesy names that git doesn't use.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 22 points 2 hours ago

Poor guy basically did a git reset —hard HEAD without even a git repository

[–] AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev 50 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I feel bad for this kid. That really is a bad warning dialog. Nowhere does it say it's going to delete files. Anyone who thinks that's good design needs a break.

Half the replies are basically "This should be obvious if your past five years of life experience is similar to mine, and if it isn't then get fucked." Just adding insult to injury.

[–] Omega_Jimes@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I'm not great at English, but "discard all changes" shouldn't ever mean "Delete".

[–] Michal@programming.dev 5 points 57 minutes ago

In the context of version control it does. Discarding a change that creates a file means deleting the file.

[–] cocobean@bookwormstory.social 21 points 2 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 1 points 20 minutes 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 1 points 43 minutes ago

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

Anything else’d be effort…

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Jesus saves, and so should you

[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

If you ever happen to have 5000 uncommitted files, you shouldn't be asking yourself if you should commit more often. You should be asking yourself how many new repos you should be making.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 23 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The person didn’t have any git repository; probably a new programmer that didn’t know how version control works and just clicked discard without understanding what that means in this situation.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 2 points 32 minutes ago

This person is why we have that meme where devs would rather struggle for a week than spend a few hours reading the documentation.

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

This is without gitignore, so probably just installed one js dependency

[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 0 points 22 minutes ago (1 children)

Honestly no idea why someone would go around a completely unknown menu in a new unknown editor and randomly click things with caution completely out the window. Not having a copy or trying a blank project, not even reading any messages. I mean even if we don't know it's a nuke button, God knows what other edits it could do to your code without you knowing.

This goes beyond rookie mistake. This is something 12 year old me would do. Same with the issue page being 90% swear words.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 14 minutes ago

Honestly no idea why editors give shit random names instead of using the terms git uses.

[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 27 points 4 hours ago (5 children)

Looks like someone forgot about the 3-2-1 rule. Teachable moment.

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[–] parpol@programming.dev 2 points 2 hours ago

Maybe he would prefer perforce.

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