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Microsoft Please Fix (lemmy.zip)
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[–] kalpol@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Warns you that changes will be discarded....not quite the same words

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I just tried right now to get the exact message.

Are you sure you want to DELETE foo?
This is IRREVERSIBLE!
This file will be FOREVER LOST if you proceed.

The confirmation button even says Delete File...

User error.

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This issue was from 2017

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Ah looking at issue 32459 it was addressed shortly after.

You're right that it did originally say "Discard".

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you use git and understand that VSC's source control stuff is just a thin wrapper around git, you should understand what "discard all changes" means

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

"discard" is not a git operation. Reset and restore are, but those weren't the words used.

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not claiming that "discard" is a git action. I'm claiming a git user should understand what's meant by the phrase "discard changes". Run git status in a repo that has changes in the working directory. In the resulting output, there's a message:

Changes not staged for commit:
    (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed) 
    (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        ...

The phrase "discard changes" is used consistently in git's output.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Ok that's understandable, I didn't realize VSCode used to delete untracked files as well as a result of clicking through that dialogue.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Broken stair apologism.