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.

[–] ByteOnBikes 12 points 13 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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Just curious, git doesn't touch untracked files though?

[–] fum@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

git clean does. Turns out VSCode did a clean with that GUI option at that time, not sure of current behaviour.

[–] GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

'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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Thanks, didn't know!