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Also, why not send them to the recycle bin? I never really thought about it before, but that does seem a reasonable UX improvement for this case

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Because “the underlying Git nukes them right away, so why shouldn’t we perma-delete the files, too?”

Anything else’d be effort…

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Honestly it probably just runs the underlying git command

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Sorta, but sorta no.

It was actually addressed in https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/32459 – the GUI implied a different git command than what actually got executed!

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I wonder if there’s already a git extension to automatically stash the working tree on every clean/reset/checkout operation…

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