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Re:Git 2.0 release notes by davidw on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @05:31AM (#7384707)
There was a thing going around twitter lately:

> If ping was designed by the git people: net-ping host --no=dns,bind --proto=TCP,rfc:492 eth0@ipv4::http://1.0.0.127.IN -ADDR.ARPA --stats -v

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Re:Git 2.0 release notes by rbonvall on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @10:08AM (#7385649)
I think it would be

    git checkout --ping
(Checkout already does too much; one more doesn't hurt).
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Re:Git 2.0 release notes by beaumartinez on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @06:22AM (#7384835)
Attribution—

https://twitter.com/gitHater/status/169978106227068928

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Re:Git 2.0 release notes by sanderjd on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @10:27AM (#7385775)
That honestly doesn't have the truth ring of good satire for me... It seems to be making fun of the lack of sane defaults in git (maybe?), but if anything, git seems too focused on mysterious implicit configuration-controlled behavior, over explicit control.

Edit: Ah, hmm, maybe the satire is more along the lines of "a single command does too much stuff", which does ring true for commands like `checkout` and `reset`.

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