My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as “lines produced” but as “lines spent”: the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger.
——On the cruelty of really teaching computing science - E.W. Djikstra
In recent git versions (>2.23),
git restore
andgit restore --staged
are the preferred ways to discard changes in the working tree (git checkout -- .
) and staged changes (git reset --
) respectively.