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WHY IS GIT AUTOCORRECT TOO FAST FOR FORMULA ONE DRIVERS?

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Git's autocorrect feature, when enabled, waits only 0.1 seconds before executing a potentially mistyped command, a timeframe too short for even a Formula One driver to react. This behavior stems from a 2008 patch that, jokingly, used deciseconds as the time unit. A recent patch aims to improve this functionality by defaulting to "immediate" execution instead of a 0.1-second delay.