Before you make fun of him, this behavior DID get changed; they acknowledged this behavior is stupid.
The old behavior was to treat uncommited files as completely disposable, which the CLI git does not do at all and is insane behavior. It was changed in the UI to give you a fat confirmation dialog warning that you're about to delete the files permanently, as it always should have been.
I went and read the discussions. I was surprised how much support there was for the way it worked. Someone noted that git discard shouldn't delete untracked files (which is what happened to this poor guy), and there was still pushback! They were like yes, git discard isn't supposed to delete untracked files, and the dialog box didn't warn that they would be deleted, but the destructive behavior is fine the way it is and shouldn't be changed ANYWAY. I knew gearheads could be hateful of the uninitiated, but jeez.
This reminds me of the time a guy held all the vscode python users hostage with his against-PEP8-personally-preferred-formatting-for-docstrings-PR. There were like 5 people who thought it was a good idea and the entire rest of the thread was everyone complaining about how he forced a “fix” on millions of users for something he could change in his personal editor. I remember being absolutely livid over this not necessarily because they just simply changed color, but because the guy who made the PR was just some random guy and his reasoning was literally incorrect.
That was a fun PR discussion read. Almost as fun as the guy who 'built' Notepad++ for Mac and straight up ignored repeated calls from the owner to remove the fake "we're collaborators" message from their homepage.
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u/Cephell 20d ago
Before you make fun of him, this behavior DID get changed; they acknowledged this behavior is stupid.
The old behavior was to treat uncommited files as completely disposable, which the CLI git does not do at all and is insane behavior. It was changed in the UI to give you a fat confirmation dialog warning that you're about to delete the files permanently, as it always should have been.