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[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (5 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 (4 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 (3 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

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