If you ever happen to have 5000 uncommitted files, you shouldn't be asking yourself if you should commit more often. You should be asking yourself how many new repos you should be making.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

This is without gitignore, so probably just installed one js dependency