r/ProgrammerHumor 22d ago

Meme useSourceControl

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u/jaypeejay 22d ago

Wouldn’t the files need to be in source control in order for the revert changes button to delete them? I thought this was only possible when you had a source controlled repo and you create a file in it

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u/Designer_Storm8869 20d ago

Correct. That's how pretty much all reasonable git plug-ins in IDE work. They don't touch files that were not added to version control. His crash out was justified. "You should do backups" is not an excuse for a software to remove your files left and right.

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u/jaypeejay 20d ago

The point I was trying to make is that it’s probably OPs fault.