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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (11 children)

As someone who knows that they know very little about git, this thread makes me think I'm not alone.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (10 children)

I think advanced git knowledge, like RegEx, is the exception, while the norm is to know the tiny handful of day to day useful bits

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How is regex git knowledge? I guess you can use regular expressions with git grep but it's certainly not a git-oriented concept...

[–] MrRazamataz 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

what. that's not what they said. they are comparing git knowledge to regex knowledge.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ah, thanks for the explanation. I too misunderstood the inflection.

[–] MrRazamataz 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't even know how to respond to this considering it has nothing to do with what I said...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

There are at least two ways to parse your statement, and they interpreted it differently from your intention.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I guess, if you ignore the comma...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Rereading it, I now understand what you meant. I interpreted the "like regex" as an example of advanced git knowledge. I'm not sure the comma helps make it unambiguous though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, reading it again and I can see that interpretation...

This is why you shouldn't rely on yourself alone for proofreading your writing, I probably could have read that a hundred times and not seen another way to read it without someone else pointing it out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Could’ve written like this to avoid the ambiguity: “I think advanced git knowledge, just like RegEx, …”

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