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

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

Anything else’d be effort…

[–] alphapuggle 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly it probably just runs the underlying git command

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week 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!