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Commands by Pistos

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cat <( command1 arg arg ) <( command2 arg ) ...
2009-03-07 04:33:12
User: Pistos
Functions: cat
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cat stdout of multiple commands

Concatenate the stdout of multiple commands.

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rehash
2009-03-02 19:03:07
User: Pistos
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Help shell find freshly installed applications (re: PATH)

Immediately after installing things into your PATH (e.g. under /usr/bin), currently open shells cannot find them ("zsh: command not found"). Use rehash to get the shell to rescan available executables.

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git merge-base branch1 branch2
2009-02-09 19:16:58
User: Pistos
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git branch point

Tells the closest (latest) shared ancestor commit (SHA1) of two branches.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-merge-base.html

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git merge --no-commit --no-ff
2009-02-09 18:59:26
User: Pistos
Functions: merge
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git merge --dry-run

Will do the merge, but only apply changes to working copy and index; won't commit.

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git svn --authors-file=some-authors-file clone svn://address/of/svn/repo new-git-dir
2009-02-06 17:31:36
User: Pistos
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Import/clone a Subversion repo to a git repo
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git diff HEAD..rev | git apply --index; git commit
2009-02-06 17:29:46
User: Pistos
Functions: diff
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Undo several commits by committing an inverse patch.

Use this to make a new commit that "softly" reverts a branch to some commit (i.e. squashes the history into an inverse patch). You can review the changes first by doing the diff alone.

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git daemon --reuseaddr --verbose --export-all --base-path=/parent/of/bare/git/repos
2009-02-06 17:25:04
User: Pistos
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Serve one or more git repositories

Use this to start git daemon serving all git repos under a path.

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