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Re:Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020) by turminal on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:40PM (#26742220)
Regular expressions are useful as tools for searching through code, filtering logs, searching through the filesystem..., even if you never commit them into your codebase.
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Re:Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020) by breck on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:21PM (#26742644)
Yes, good clarification. I probably write 10x (maybe 100x? more?) more throwaway regexes than regexes I commit.
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