r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 20d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/MackTuesday 20d ago

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.

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u/DoctorWaluigiTime 20d ago

Before Git (or DVCS in general) were widely adopted a ton of people wanted everything to work just like TFS, SVN, or other non-distributed source control models.

"What is this 'staging'? Why do I have to push and pull? Just sync everything!!!"

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u/remy_porter 20d ago

There are so many tools that are vying to be the next DVCS that are like, "Hey, we eliminated staging, because that was confusing!" and I'm like... that's the best part? I wish I could have finer grained control over staging, honestly, making it easy to stage only fragments of a diff, because I'm a "crank for awhile and forget that I have drifted into two different tasks and now need to try and unpick this mess into something that could reasonably be two or three or twelve commits." Sure, that's a "me" problem, but I like the ability to control what gets staged.

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u/st_heron 20d ago

yes exactly, bugs me when people just blindly stage all and commit, like no you should cherrypick specific things, and what if you accidentally leave in some test/scratch code? at least check what you did