There should be a notice when you enable source control that this will permanently delete all existing files with a checkbox (checked by default) that says "Add existing files to source control."

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

~~He wouldn't have seen the "Discard Changes" button at all if source control wasn't already setup (and detected by VSCode).~~

~~No sane program will delete files when you initialize source control either.~~

As I found later, VSCode did have weird behaviors with source control back then. My experience is more with the latest versions.

[–] LordPassionFruit@lemm.ee 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My sibling ran into this issue once. I'm not sure if it's a setting or a default, but vscode would assume they were working in a blank repo until they made a commit.

Sounds like this person had the project (without source control) in another IDE, tried out VSCode, and it assumed that it was all 'changes'. I don't use VSCode, do I can't say for certain, but I know my sibling lost ~4 hours of project set up for the same reason (though they immediately realized it was their fault).

[–] Pyro@programming.dev 9 points 4 days ago

Reading your comment and #32459, I realize that VSCode source control did have some major issues back then.

It looks like they have improved though, as the latest VSCode I use doesn't auto-initialize repositories anymore.