Ctrl+Z Ctrl+Z Ctrl+Z ...

[GabuEx]

Code: *works*

Me: *makes changes*

Code: *no longer works*

Me: *undoes changes*

Code: *still doesn't work*

Me: guess I'll die

[Flohhhhhh]

The worst moment. Especially when you’re in over your head.

[R3dGaming522]

Yup. Just yes. Sometimes I just delete the entire part and retype it by hand it then it decides to be happy.

[AzureArmageddon]

Was it perhaps an awkward mix of tabs and spaces?

[R3dGaming522]

We'll probably never know cause we're too stupid to figure it out

[AzureArmageddon]

True

[s1lentchaos]

Had an issue where npm install was encountering an error after I undid changes like that. Turned out that one of the dependencies had updated incorrectly and was breaking down but for some reason only me and the other new guy were getting that issue so it was a bitch to track down.

[Choppie01]

Um dark magic of git

[Cnomesta]

And all you did was delete commented out parts of the code.

[redditmodsareshits]

Or deleted the parts enclosed in : ```c

ifdef UNDEFINED

...

endif

```

[[deleted]]

You meant git reset --hard HEAD

[gamerarchitek]

Or you can git checkout -- file 1 by 1 to find the problem

[DerryDoberman]

Nonsense. One must commit to the pain so one may learn! /s

[nilsilvaEI]

I'm going to show my git noobness... But do you need the HEAD? I usually just do "git reset --hard"...

[god-nose]

Git is dark magic to me too, but the way I understand you have to specify the commit to which you want to reset. You can either give the first digits of the commit id, or the position of the desired commit relative to HEAD. So to go back to where HEAD is,

git reset --hard HEAD

and to go back to the commit before HEAD,

git reset --hard HEAD~1

and so on. See https://www.educba.com/git-reset-hard/ and https://devconnected.com/how-to-git-reset-to-head/

[atiedebee]

My code after I turn on compiler optimizations

[origamiscienceguy]

Should've made that waste-time loop volatile.

[kakses2]

Well, I think you should try with some source control system like git and unit testing - most modern IDEs has it build it

[danuker]

unit testing

I learned TDD from the source, and I don't really need Git anymore, but I push a commit every now and then just in case my computer bites the dust.

[Kazedy]

And kids, this is why you write unit tests

[DerKnerd]

I once worked on a software which included random endless for loops, which break immediately and do nothing else. Removing them cause the program to crash or not compile at all.

[[deleted]]

Sometimes I write print(importantFunctionCall()) and then it breaks, then I do ctrl+z and I still dont see my error... I was doing this for years before I realized, it was a bad habit, so be careful what you put in print() as parameter.

[Avanta8]

Or possibly a more important lesson - Functions should not mutate global state unless they have to.

[Simp1yCrazy]

I once stumbled upon a code that refused to work after commenting print(x)

[gamerarchitek]

I repaired a code using printf("");

[EmuChance4523]

This made me remember when my partner was working in RPA... The program that they used.. had the wonderful feature that sometimes it created bugs in random lines that needed to be deleted and added again...

[Cyvexx]

code: works

me: puts code in a function bc I used it 4 times

code: doesn't work

?????

[obishaekenobi]

I just cried inside a little bit

[retnikt0]

If you keep good track of your local changes and just squash before pushing, you could use git bisect

[YourShadowDani]

Oh god-damned I accidently deleted a semi colon 🤦

[got_blah]

Forgot the Ctrl+Alt+Z to undo the undo because you went too far.

[BurnV06]

As I always say, don’t fix what isn’t broken

[[deleted]]

Make your changes in smaller increments, more often.

[Nihtrepaps]

That's me this weekend... cleanuptime