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submitted 2 weeks ago by irelephant@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Phunter@lemmy.zip 59 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Either that or they're doing the same amount of research they normally do. It's hard to tell.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 28 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

But then why use

Term: explanation

and directly below that

"Term"-- explanation

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And directly between those: "Term"--explanation (no space after "--")

[–] DickFiasco@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago

I think --explanation is the command line switch to output a brief summary of a git command.

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