Stefaan Lippens' webface

Git comes with a massive bunch of (sub)commands and even if you're dealing with git on a daily basis, you might not always remember every single one you need along the way. Having bash completion for git is already a good start (type git, a space and then tab), but this is only a subset with the higher level commands.

I'm experimenting with using a Subversion repository through Git. That way I can keep better track of my own (experimental) work, without polluting/destabilizing the central Subversion repository with small incremental commits. Git comes with a svn sub-tool that takes care of all the interfacing between the local git repository and the central Subversion repository. Mainly for my own reference, I'll collect some pointers and tricks for using this git-svn tool here. Maybe it's useful for other too.

At first, it seemed annoying, but now I really like that git uses a pager when it has to present something (e.g. a log or a diff) that is longer than your screen. Git even provides a built in option --color to show you a diff with helpful colors. I use this option all the time and made a shortcut dic for it with the following command

git config --global alias.dic "diff --color"

Also possible is to edit your ~/.gitconfig directly so you have something like the following in there:

[alias]
        di = diff
        dic = diff --color

Now I just do

git dic

and I get a nice paged and color highlighted diff.