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> fantastic demonstration of why i exclusively use git from a command prompt

What's described in that github issue happened to me as well the first time I used git via Visual Studio. I normally don't do that, but something told me to make a zip of everything before using git in VS. So that saved me big time.

Why in the world are the deletions not pointed to the Recycle Bin??? That's what it's there for.

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The deletions are made through git, and windows git does not use the recycle bin, presumably because it's a linux-first tool

It doesn't use the recycle bin on Linux either.

Agreed, it's sort of surreal that nobody in any of the issue threads admitted that was a good solution.

It’s not a good solution at all; it makes no sense in the context of source control because the repository IS the undo button, and copying discarded changes to the recycle bin would just add a lot of incoherent duplication into the recycle bin for no reason. Not to mention that’s not how git works, so it’d have to be added as a git extension, and you’d end up with people who actually know how their source control tools work feeling confused and annoyed that their editor is changing how their familiar tools work.

I mean, if you point software you don’t understand at work that’s not backed up you shouldn’t be shocked if it does something you don’t like

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