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.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 13 points 20 hours ago

It appears that the behavior actually included a git clean. Which is insane in my opinion.

Yeah. Building a convenient accessible context free way to run git clean...sure feels like the actions of someone who just wants to watch the world burn.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's unclear to me at the time if the dialogue box in the screenshot appeared when doing a select all operation, but it reads as though the OP dev didn't understand git, discarded their work, and got upset that it was an option.

Realistically if the dialogue box appeared, I'm not sure there would be anything else the IDE could do to prevent the dev from themselves. Perhaps reject operations affecting 5000 files? But then you'll just have someone with the same issue for 4000 files.

[–] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The issue I linked has a very good analysis of the UX issues and several suggestions for fixing these. They went with a minor iteration on the original message box, which not only includes a clearer message and the number of files affected, but also defaults to not touching untracked files (while preserving the option to delete untracked files as before).

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 2 points 1 day 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@programming.dev 7 points 23 hours ago

The second button is actually a pretty major change!