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I can't find documentation for the command in the article:

    git convert-repo --to-hash=sha-256 --frobnicate-blobs --climb-subtrees \
    --liability-waiver=none --use-shovels --carbon-offsets
Surely some of those options aren't real...



Of course they are ?!?!!? https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

(never fails to amuse me)


Oh dear god. Because it's git related, my brain somehow still tries to make sense of that stuff because it just seems so real.


It's a curious feeling. Like reading code that is syntactically valid but utterly nonsensical.



I believe we have here an example of Poe's law [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law


That seems to be intended to be humour.


Well, I loved it, for one.


> A new version of Git can be made…with a simple command like: <command> … note that the specific command-line options may differ

Gives me the impression that it’s a construction of the article alone. Unsurprising, given the snark of the options.




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