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Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Nowadays, Git is almost ubiquitous in software development. Most developers also know that Git is a decentralized version control system, meaning that every copy of the repository carries the full revision history, and there is no "central" repository. A consequence of the decentralized aspect of Git is that you can …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Admittedly, this TOTW is one day late, so this week there will be 2xTOTW! In any case, the tip I want to bring up here is very much related to last week's TOTW on Reverse search in bash. Sometimes, reverse searching just doesn't work out. You may not be quite …
Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week
Have you ever found yourself furiously tapping the UP-arrow (or ctrl+p) to
find a command that's probably waaaay up there? Would you be surprised if I
told you there's a better way? When you want to re-use a command you've written
previously, and you know it's not the previous …