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[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 10 points 9 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@lemmy.razbot.xyz 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Astongt615@lemmy.one 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I guess, if you ignore the comma...

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] lhamil64@programming.dev 2 points 9 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.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 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