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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (4 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

[–] stetech 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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

Anything else’d be effort…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly it probably just runs the underlying git command

[–] stetech 2 points 3 weeks 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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