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A comment on THIS THING DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK – Issue #32405 – Microsoft/vscode.

Re:THIS THING DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK – Issue #32405 – Micr... by ralphie02 on Thursday October 05, 2017 @08:43AM (#15408641)
Totally the guy's fault. No one in their right mind should have 3 months (or even a few days) worth of code without a backup/version control system set up.
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Re:THIS THING DELETED 3 MONTHS OF WORK – Issue #32405 – Micr... by naikrovek on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:27PM (#15418046)
It's his fault for not having a backup, yes.

It is not his fault that the tool deleted thousands of files.

Don't confuse yourself; the tool did a bad thing, and so did the user, and those are two, separate, bad things.

The user is not to blame for the tool's nearly cavalier deletion of 5000 files, and the tool is not to blame for the user's failure to have a recovery method.

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