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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Doing a git clean is a dick move.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The user clicked an option to "discard" all changes. They then got a very clear pop-up saying that this is destructive and cannot be undone (there's a screenshot in the thread).

[–] Peer@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I very much understand how one can think this would revert any changes done to files under version control but not delete the ones that are not. I believe this dialog has since been updated to explicitly state that fact.

[–] BatmanAoD@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, the dialog was changed, as part of this linked issue (and maybe again after that; this whole incident is very old). After reading some of the comments on that issue, I agree with the reasoning with some of the commenters that it would be less surprising for that menu option to behave like git reset --hard and not delete tracked files.

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, real developers do git clean -dxf.