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Developer Accidentally Deletes Three-Month of Work With Visual Studio Code (bingj.com)

Posted by msmash on from the oops dept.

New submitter joshtops writes: A developer accidentally three-month of his work. In a post, he described his experience, "I had just downloaded VScode as an alternative and I was just playing with the source control option, seeing how it wanted to stage -- five thousand files -- I clicked discard... AND IT DELETED ALL MY FILES, ALL OF THEM, PERMANENTLY! How the f*uk is this s*it possible, who the hell is the d******* who made the option to permanently delete all the files on a project by accident even possible? Cannot even find them in the Recycle Bin!!!! I didn't even thought that was possible on Windows!!! F*ck this f*cking editor and f*ck whoever implemented this option. I wish you the worst.'

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  1. Re:Version Control = Good by Aighearach · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't about backups, it is about not having a central repository. It isn't enough to have revision control, you have to actually be checking it in to a repository and sharing code. Even if you're only sharing with yourself, you still want your revision control to work well. And if you're not synchronizing anything, then you're not even getting feedback about if the system is working.

    It isn't enough to commit the code, you also have to push it somewhere. Even if that is just a repo on the same box.

    You don't want to restore this situation from backups, you want the restore to be from the repo. Much simpler and more to the point. And the backup would be of the repo, not the working directory!

  2. Bitbucket and 3 copies minimum by CraigCruden · · Score: 5, Informative

    A single copy on Dropbox that has no SLA with you... is not sufficient.

    You can setup a free account for a private repository on Bitbucket (free for small teams of ... one). (offsite cloud backup).

    You should also be doing regular local backups and rotating them at a friends house as well (3 copies minimum).

  3. Just tried it by Zalbik · · Score: 5, Informative

    So just for fun, I tried it.

    Did he happen to ignore the popup with the big yellow exclamation mark that says:
    "Are you sure you want to discard ALL changes? This is IRREVERSIBLE!"

    At the very least the ALL CAPS WITH EXCLAMATION MARK! should have possibly made him think "Hmmm...this seems to be a pretty important question"

    But apparently he decided: "Ah, screw it. It's only 3 months of my life".

    Given that level of skill, I can't think much of importance was lost.