I feel bad for this kid. That really is a bad warning dialog. Nowhere does it say it's going to delete files. Anyone who thinks that's good design needs a break.

Half the replies are basically "This should be obvious if your past five years of life experience is similar to mine, and if it isn't then get fucked." Just adding insult to injury.

[–] cocobean 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also, why not send them to the recycle bin? I never really thought about it before, but that does seem a reasonable UX improvement for this case

[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

I wonder if there's already a git extension to automatically stash the working tree on every clean/reset/checkout operation...

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because “the underlying Git nukes them right away, so why shouldn’t we perma-delete the files, too?”

Anything else’d be effort…

[–] alphapuggle@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly it probably just runs the underlying git command

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Sorta, but sorta no.

It was actually addressed in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32459 – the GUI implied a different git command than what actually got executed!

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