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Re: Command line hint of the day

From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Nov 14, 2005, 19:08 UTC
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> Maybe we should have a git man-page section of "strange but useful 
> examples"? Things people do just because they are useful, but may not be 
> immediately obvious to somebody who comes from CVS-land and uses git as 
> just another old SCM?
>

Sounds like a good idea. The sed1liners.txt (sic) has probably saved me several hundred hours of boring and tedious cut'n paste work (or more interesting but still not exactly fun one-shot programming).

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  1. Linus TorvaldsNov 14, 2005
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