Looks like they weren't staged. He clicked on the staging option, it showed it would stage thousands of files, he said "hey I should fix my .gitignore" and clicked on what looked like either a "don't stage" or a "forget" button, and it was a "checkout --force" button.

The most impressive thing is all the people doubling down on the idea that a "checkout --force" button in a main interaction screen is a great idea, there's nothing wrong with the software, and the user is a moron.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"discard changes" button - the 5000 "new file created" changes, specifically.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Did you read the thread? There was a bug that deleted all files even ones unassociated with git.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like they weren't even using version control, and had no business anywhere near a project that size.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

had no business anywhere near a project that size.

Lol. That's a really good point, actually.

I add version control around file number 3200...

(I'm kidding. Writing even a couple lines without version control makes my eye twitch.)

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even back in my super noob days, I'd keep known good working versions of the files in separate folders. I basically invented my own terrible source control system before I knew anything about svn or git.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah. Same here. We learned to mistrust computers very early.