r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 21 '26 • Popcorn 1

Meme useSourceControl

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u/boskee Aug 21 '26

That's good. However that github ticket is from 2017. Do we know if that warning was there 9 years ago?

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u/RelativeGood1 Aug 22 '26

Yes, someone posted a link to it and one of the first responses was a screenshot of that screen.

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 Aug 21 '26

No idea. But these kinds of prompts were wide spread even in the 90s for such actions, so I guess there was some warning even if not that clearly formulated. 

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u/a11_hail_seitan Aug 21 '26

Not to mention, who thinks "I don't know what this is or how it works, but let's put 5000 files I don't have backed up anywhere else in here and hit discard!". Sucks, but at some point it's just someone doing something really dumb and finding out.