• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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      1 month ago

      Nowadays the warning even says that this cannot be undone. Maybe that wasn’t present in 1.15, though.

      • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        It was. If you go through the OP thread, one of the responses is a picture of the dialog window that this user clicked through saying, “these changes will be IRREVERSIBLE”.

        The OP was just playing with a new kind of fire (VSCodes Git/source control panel) that they didn’t understand, and they got burned.

        We all gotta get burnt at least once, but it normally turns us into better devs in the end. I would bet money that this person uses source control now, as long as they are still coding.

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      1 month ago

      If the “changes” are all your files, discarding them for me means basically delete my files, you know, the ones you are trying to add.

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        1 month ago

        At the same time, OP seems a layman, and might be coming from things like Microsoft Word, where “Discard all changes” basically means “revert to last save”.

        EDIT: After reading the related issues, OP may have also thought that “discard changes” was to uninitialise the repository, as opposed to wiping untracked files.

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        “Changes” are not the same thing as “files”.

        I’d expect that files that are not in version control would not be touched.