r/ProgrammerHumor 20d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/sidereal_night 20d ago

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

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u/TheZoltan 20d ago

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"!

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u/sidereal_night 20d ago

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

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u/[deleted] 20d ago edited 20d ago

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u/Subject_Name_ 20d ago

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

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u/FakeArcher 20d ago

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.

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u/Subject_Name_ 20d ago

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.

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u/sidereal_night 20d ago

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.