A few git tips you didn't know about

fragmede15y ago· 3 in thread

The article uses, but does not describe pbcopy and pbpaste on os x. Feed data to pbcopy, and it goes to the clipboard:

  pwd | pbcopy # Copies the working directory to the clipboard

pbpaste outputs the clipboard contents:

  cd `pbpaste` # cd to the directory in the clipboard

(I use this to go to the same dir in a second terminal) (There's Linux equivalent called, xsel does the same.)

judofyr15y ago

For Rubyists who are using Mac, these are very handy in IRB:

    # stick in .irbrc
    def copy(str)
      IO.popen('pbcopy', 'w') { |f| f << str.to_s }
    end

    def paste
      `pbpaste`
    end

    def ep
      eval(paste)
    end

bretthoerner15y ago

I knew of pbcopy/pbpaste, but never thought of that. Great idea,

Python version (adjust to pbcopy/pbpaste if on OS X): http://gist.github.com/488852

DCoder15y ago

If you're running on Windows, Vista/W7 has `clip` as an equivalent to pbcopy. One project I was working on, the sysadmin didn't give us any access to the server, so we had to instruct him to use git each time an update went through (daily). `git rev-parse HEAD | clip` was the fastest way to get the "revision your tree should be at after pulling" then and send it to him.

dlsspy15y ago

Inaccurate -- I wrote one of those. :)

But do note that instead of this:

    git checkout -t origin/feature

You can do this:

    git checkout feature

It'll find a branch named "feature" in one of your remotes and make a local branch that tracks it.

joblessjunkie15y ago

Good lord, the CSS on this page made me think I needed to get new glasses.

hartror15y ago

Would be nice if those that needed 1.7+ were marked so.

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