Having done exactly 0 research, I going to assume it's one of those "DO NOT PRESS OKAY UNLESS YOU ARE EXPERIENCED AND KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING" and someone went "pffft I know what I'm doing. click now what does this option do..."

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (6 children)

reading through it, it sounds like they opened a project in VSCode, and it saw that there was a local git repo already initialized, with 3 months of changes uncommitted and not staged. So the options there are to stage the changes (git add) to be committed or discard the changes (git checkout -- .). I guess they chose the discard option thinking it was a notification and i guess the filename would be added to gitignore or something? Instead, it discarded the changes, and to the user, it looked like VSCode did rm -rf and not that this was the behavior of git. Since the changes were never committed, even git reflog can't save them.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 days ago (5 children)

From this issue: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32459

It appears that the behavior actually included a git clean. Which is insane in my opinion. Not sure if they changed it since, but there’s definitely a dev defending it.

[–] Scoopta 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He said they're not going to change it, just make the dialog a lot more clear and add a second button to it that will only do a reset without the clean.

[–] BatmanAoD 8 points 2 days ago

The second button is actually a pretty major change!

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