Fuck all victim-blamers. "Discard" is not how you label a button that permanently erases anything.
While I have some sympathy for anyone who loses months of work, as an IT administrator by day, all I have to say about their lack of backups, and lack of RTFM before messing with shit is:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHA. you got what you deserved fucker. GL.YF.
Yeah, it's bad enough that it could happen, the fact they allowed that to happen so easily is far worse.
I will RTFM after literally anyone else does.
Man I get paranoid about synchronization programs for this very reason. There's usually some turnkey easy-mode enabled as soon as you first launch that's like:
"Hey you wanna back up your entire NAS to your phone?! That'll be fun, right?!"
And you're like "...No."
And then it wants to obliterate everything so it's all "synchronized", often it's not easy to find a "No, stop, don't do anything at all until I configure this." Option.
iTunes was SO BAD about this.
Syncthing is the least-bad sync software I've ever run. It's got some footguns but it's still brilliant.
I would imagine there's still ways to back up version controlled software right?
iTunes would stomp all over your hard drive, fucking up every MP3 file it could find, and then refuse to believe you could have one copy of a file. Either it's on your iPod and your computer, or it's getting dragged behind the woodshed.
Give me sync software that only ever increases redundancy.
Any professional would have a code repository and probably a build server which spits out binaries left and right, off site of course.
Bonus points if that is the easiest way to deploy the software, so all developers actually use it.
Edit: typo
Reminds me of a hilarious bug in early GHC: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/163
The compiler will delete your source file if there's any compile error. And the user complained only by sending a very polite email to report this bug. Simon Peyton Jones mentioned it in one of his talks and I still find it quite hilarious till this day.
Left the --hardcore compile option on. Easy mistake.
Software development: hardcore mode
I'm sure that the "three months of work" was completely shit code. Anybody who is unfamiliar with source control (or even backups!) is prone to making stupid mistakes. Republican voters are likely to have a similar experience over the next 4 years.
What a delightfully divisive statement. We do all need to start somewhere though, and losing months of work is very discouraging!
It does warn you it will erase the file when you discard...
Go read the actual thread. There was a bug someone found that files you have in there that aren't even associated with git still get deleted. I'm not entirely convinced this was the poster's fault.
It's not a bug, it's intentional. They consider changes to be any change since the last commit including in untracked files. They did update it to make this behavior a lot more obvious though.
This comment in particular does a great job of explaining the UX problem with this. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32459#issuecomment-322160461
Yes, honestly this situation reminds me a lot of the LTT trying Linux and destroying his system by installing steam despite apt warning him in the best way it really could that he probably didn't want to do that. Sure the package shouldn't have been in that state in a stable distro but shit happens. It goes to that point of, users will go through great lengths to achieve the end goal blindly jumping past warnings on the way no matter how dire they might be.
I did read the whole thread. I also referenced the resolution further down the comment thread.
They've adjusted the error message to be abundantly clear after the fact.
"Microsoft Please Fix" ifadesi, genellikle kullanıcıların Microsoft ürünlerinde yaşadıkları sorunlara veya hata bildirimlerine yönelik bir çağrıdır. Tostçu Mahmut Menu
Why are they messing with the source control options when they're not using source control? Perhaps learn about stuff before you start clicking buttons and performing delete operations on your super critical files?
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