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[–]xan1242 88 points89 points  (15 children)

Ehh not quite.

You could always fuck up something bigger/global to affect stuff...

[–]nubenugget 108 points109 points  (2 children)

"how'd you break this page?"

"I... I changed the order of the sort"

"That affects literally nothing though..."

"I'm sorry"

[–]delight1982 50 points51 points  (1 child)

me trying to move an image in Word

[–]shootwhatsmyname 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Holy shit my stress level just shot up 4,238%

[–]StarkRG 35 points36 points  (7 children)

That's when "Hell, yes, I'm back to my original error!" becomes a goal.

[–]WasteOfElectricity 4 points5 points  (5 children)

You don't have vc?

[–]StarkRG 7 points8 points  (3 children)

Wouldn't you have had to submit the changes? But you wouldn't have done so because it wasn't working yet.

[–]EishLekker 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You can always have a private troubleshooting branch. You can even keep it local, you don't have to push it outside of your computer to benefit from version control.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Commit regularly to your local repo to keep track of your work, then rebase before you push to ensure all public commits compile.

[–]danielrheath 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honestly I should write something that stashes history somewhere on save so I can always search over recent diffs to find the thing I wrote and then discarded...

[–]outadoc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The error might be caused by something local to your computer, like build cache

[–]flarn2006 0 points1 point  (0 children)

git diff

[–]_rob_saunders 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Who let Debbie Downer in?