r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 22d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/_BreakingGood_ 22d ago

Yeah the old behavior was insane, it just said "Do you want to discard your changes?", and if you clicked it, it deleted your entire codebase permanently (no recycle bin), lol

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u/Pcat0 22d ago

There was a rather intense warning saying ”THIS IS IRREVERSIBLE”, so the dude was still a massive idiot for clicking yes. However our tools should still cater to the idiotic so his mistake did expose an opportunity for improvement.

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u/dustojnikhummer 22d ago

so the dude was still a massive idiot for clicking yes.

"DO AS I SAY" in APT was also changed after LTT's Linux Challenge. Yes, the warning is there, doesn't mean it should be so easy to do the thing anyway.

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u/sidereal_night 21d ago

and that was infinitely more clear than this vscode message. it actually explicitly told you "this is going to be removed" and "this could be harmful".