• JackbyDev@programming.dev
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    1 day ago

    “discard” is not a git operation. Reset and restore are, but those weren’t the words used.

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      1 day ago

      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.