So basically don’t break conventions by repurposing existing operators for something else.

It’s silly as git is otherwise a very elegantly designed application, and you’d expect it to be developed by people who are very accustomed to these conventions.

As a primarily FreeBSD user who feels like I have to relearn the idiosyncrasies of practically the entire system every I install a new Linux distro, the mess of configuration options somehow actually seems entirely on-brand to me.