• Korne127@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    The person didn’t have any git repository; probably a new programmer that didn’t know how version control works and just clicked discard without understanding what that means in this situation.

      • GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        ‘git reset’ won’t. ‘git clean’, on the other hand, most certainly does. Even then you have to --force it by default, to prevent an accidental clean.

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      5 hours ago

      This person is why we have that meme where devs would rather struggle for a week than spend a few hours reading the documentation.