If you ever happen to have 5000 uncommitted files, you shouldn't be asking yourself if you should commit more often. You should be asking yourself how many new repos you should be making.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 36 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

The person didn’t have any git repository; probably a new programmer that didn’t know how version control works and just clicked discard without understanding what that means in this situation.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 44 minutes ago

Just curious, git doesn't touch untracked files though?

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 hours ago

This person is why we have that meme where devs would rather struggle for a week than spend a few hours reading the documentation.

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

This is without gitignore, so probably just installed one js dependency