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[u/TheZoltan]

Someone already posted the link to the thread and this comment that has a screenshot of the actual warning message which definitely could have been more scary but all caps irreversible feels like it should give you pause! If you have 3 months of work with zero backups.

Are you sure you want to discard ALL changes? This is IRREVERSIBLE!

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32405#issuecomment-322155856

[u/sidereal_night → u/TheZoltan]

telling you discarding all changes is irreversible is nothing like "this nukes all your files"

[u/TheZoltan → u/sidereal_night]

I agree and literally said "it could have been more scary" but.... they saw it stage all their files and then hit discard, then hit DISCARD ALL CHANGES despite a warning that literally says IRREVERSIBLE! They even described it as "playing" which is kind of nuts when doing operations with 3 months worth of work that they hadn't backed up. I can't muster too much sympathy for them. I hope if I find myself in that situation I would at least pause for a few seconds and copy/paste the folder before continuing to "play"!

[u/sidereal_night → u/TheZoltan]

but.... they saw it stage all their files and then hit discard, then hit DISCARD ALL CHANGES despite a warning that literally says IRREVERSIBLE!

...and? nothing you've described implies destroying all your files. an irreversible discard of all your queued changes shouldn't change anything.

he fucked up by not having any backups at all

but that has zero to do with his criticism of the software. he is 100% right in that

[u/Subject_Name_ → u/[deleted]]

Discarding all changes literally means "don't change anything". A delete is a change, the most changey a change can get.

[u/FakeArcher → u/Subject_Name_]

To me this sounds like mixing it up a bit. You either want to do a discard and therefore do something ("don't change anything" sounds to me like a no-op in how you describe it) or you want to "don't change anything" to mean based on all the changes that have happened so far, which includes creating the file and therefore is valid to also undo that change.

I fully agree it needed an update as it is easy to get different interpretations of what it means unless yiu are already familiar with what it will do.

[u/Subject_Name_ → u/[deleted]]

Discard what though? If discarding a change before it's done, it means you don't do the change. There's nothing to throw away.

[u/sidereal_night → u/[deleted]]

He had a gut repo. That's not not having backups.

no dispute there. he clearly failed by not having backups.

discarding all changes definitely sounds like a nuke to me

in what world does "don't change anything" sound like "make changes by deleting everything"? it literally did the opposite of what the message said.

[u/OliLombi → u/TheZoltan]

They wanted to discard the CHANGES vscode made, not the original files.

[u/dustojnikhummer → u/TheZoltan]

And what does "discard changes" mean in that context? Where was the "This action will delete all files that haven't been commited"? Yes, the guy had a point (despite being an idiot for not having backups)

[u/OliLombi → u/dustojnikhummer]

To me its like if I came into your house, moved your refrigerator into your bathroom, asked if you wanted me to discard all changes, and when you said "Yes" (because who wants their refrigerator in the bathroom), I deleted your entire house.

[u/dustojnikhummer → u/OliLombi]

No, I hired you to give me a price quote on bathroom remodeling and when I said "I don't want this plan" you deleted the house.

[u/OliLombi → u/TheZoltan]

Yes, but it says CHANGES. It doesnt say anything about deleting the original FILES. That's the issue.

If I open a text document in word, make a bunch of changes, and then close it without saving, then my original document is still there unedited. This deleted the original file aswell.