• Korne127@lemmy.world
    43·
    1 month ago

    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
      121·
      1 month 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.

      • GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world
        5·
        1 month ago

        ‘git reset’ won’t. ‘git clean’, on the other hand, most certainly does. Even then you have to --force it by default, to prevent an accidental clean.

      • fum@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 month ago

        git clean does. Turns out VSCode did a clean with that GUI option at that time, not sure of current behaviour.