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Looks like windows should come with a dictionary.
"Huh, discard, I wonder what that does. Let's try it on all my work from the last six months"
Idiots gonna idiot...
Problem is, there's an entire generation of users that have gotten super used to "discard changes" as a means of signalling "on second thought, don't do anything".
From a certain point of view - isn't this exactly what happened here?
I often go into a Git worktree of one of my projects and mess around a bit to try something out. If I find it's not working, I tell git to discard the changes with
git checkout .andgit clean -df. What I'm saying is exactly “on second thought, don’t do anything" - while what happens in practice is that Git restores all files to theirHEADstatus and removes all the new files that are not already inHEAD.Of course, the difference is that I already have all the work I want to keep under source control, so these changes I've discarded really were that - just changes. He, on the other hand, "was just playing with the source control option" - so these "changes" he was discarding really were all his work. But Git did not know that.