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2014 Review: Day 6

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As 2014 winds down, we’ll take an opportunity to look back at some of our most-read posts from this year, in case you missed them the first time. 

Photo of Elephant by Richard Atkinson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardatuct/6719197685/

Photo by Richard Atkinson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/richardatuct/6719197685/


 
Noah Miller gives us a useful list of git commands that are handy to have at your fingertips….if you can remember them:

17 Useful git Commands That I Can’t Remember

I’m thankful for git for many reasons, like fast commits, offline history browsing, and cheap branching. But one complaint I have is the illogical naming and arguments of git commands.
I’ve long kept a list of useful but hard to remember commands in a notepad.  Here’s my list, roughly sorted by most frequently used.  Careful with the dangerous commands at the bottom.
 

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