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discarding changes does not discard uncommitted new files. The VS Code button did a
git clean
which is completely unexpected. Git even refers to a git clean with completely different terminology.Note that git clean never once refers to discarding anything, and git reset never refers to removing untracked files. VS Code was doing an idiotic thing. Running
git reset --hard
ANDgit clean
. There is absolutely no reason to be runninggit clean
from an UI button ever. If you want to remove a file you can explicitly remove it.Imagine that the button said "Discard all changes" and then it ran
rm -rf --no-preserve-root /*
. Would that make sense as a button? No. It definitely would not.or like "unmount d:" but instead it formats d: