Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
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Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#2Haha, SourceTree can also do that! Fun times!
Source control responsibly people! :)
Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#3its always sad to see people learn the lesson of source control the hard way.
Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#4So, his hard drive could die. He could have a virus or a crypto infection. All would delete his work.
A developer uses source control, it's as easy as that.
Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#5No source control, no backups and you "play" with a new software to see how it handles 5000 files?
Well... not sure what to say here..
Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#6I have seen people learn to source control the hard way multiple times, but usually they were saved (at least partially) by the local history feature in IDEs. This guy was hit very hard, I feel sorry for him.
Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#7I know nothing about Visual Studio Code and very little about anything VS in fact, so I have no idea how much is VS's fault and how much is the user's, but seriously, how on Earth is it possible to have 3 months of work not backed up or source controlled in any way?
I once had a nasty file system corruption due to disconnecting the power cord that corrupted my (local) git repo and almost made me lose a day of work. Even with source control there are risks.
If there is anything positive to take away from this,it should be to learn to consider risk management.
If you write code even, say, once every week and haven't yet bothered to learn how to use source control, you owe it to your mental sanity to do it now.
EDIT: archived http://web.archive.org/web/20170818080940/http://cc.bingj.co...
Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#8I learned about "git checkout ." the hard way once, too. Only lost three hours then, though.
Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#9I never trust anything but the commandline when it comes to git. Then I know full and well what I'm doing regardless of the editor. When there are too many icons and buttons to click I don't like to have to remember what they all mean, or how well they map to the underlying core git concepts.
Re: Developer accidentally deletes 3 months of work with Visual Studio Code
#10The sad part is that he didn't learn his lesson. The problem obviously isn't with Visual Studio Code, but with Git (or whatever version control software he tried out). It seems that he didn't know anything about using git and accidentally checked out a bare repo instead of adding his files to stage. From his post, he says he's using windows and he's used to things going into the recycle bin, something a Linux tool like Git obviously isn't going to do. So this is a mismatch between a beginner software developer on windows never having used Git before, and the mental model of Linux tools like Git.
I agree with him that Visual Studio Code could probably have designed their warning message a bit better, for people like him who have no experience with Git.
And now to the sad part, having accidentally deleted all his files while trying out Git; he will probably never touch Git again! So instead of learning the lesson he should have learned; always use version control on everything, what he did learn was; Git is harmful, don't use it.
Of course it also kinda seems like he blames VS Code and doesn't understand that it was the fault of Git, but that won't make him start using Git anytime soon.
Learning about version control, especially Git, is the most important thing a software developer can learn as early as possible in his career.