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by jawns 18 days ago
The "Try it. 10 seconds." section at the bottom of the page hijacks an existing tool (git diff) and installs a pre-commit hook.

But there are no instructions for how to reverse those actions if you don't like the tool. Feels a little user-hostile to me.

2 comments

I am sorry, should have put up a warning there, but You can do sem unsetup, if you go to the github, you will understand more about the way to reverse it.
tone deaf comment. "read the docs to undo it" is user hostile.
"Ah yeah, you're right. I apologize for that. Here is what to do. I'll update the page."

What an asshole! Plus the uninstall steps were completely inconsiderate single 2 word command. Outrageous.

I can't even think of a better possible response.

op literally wrote `sem unsetup` in their comment, so, I don't see what is "tone deaf" in this comment!
iiuc they answered the question directly and then told them where they can find further answers, didn't seem tone deaf at all
Uninstalling a git hook isn't exactly rocket science. If you consider this user-hostile, you must have a terrible time using git in general, since it's not exactly the most noob friendly vcs.