I guarantee you at least half of git users would get glossy eyes as soon as you mention blobs and trees, yet they all still manage to use it daily successfully.

There are 0 excuses for not having months of work in a repo, none. I have no sympathy whatsoever. How the fuck do you spend so many months without backing up your project or stuffing it in a repo?

I need you to listen to me very carefully: THEY WERE FUCKING SETTING UP A REPO WHEN THIS HAPPENED.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No, by his own admission, he was playing around with the IDE. He wasn't interested in the version control, he was interested in the pretty editor.

I suggest you go read the original issue.