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Documentation online as well as downloadable as HTML, ePub, etc.: Pro Git

Set the default editor:

git config --global core.editor '/usr/bin/sublime -w'

Show the full pretty formatted version log including decoration (branch names and tags):

git log --decorate --graph --full-history --all --color --pretty=format:"%x1b[31m%h%x09%x1b[32m%d%x1b[0m%x20%s"

Clean log information using git lola alias.

Git global config:

• Linux: ~/.gitconfig
• Windows: %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\.gitconfig

Show all diffs which were made between two commits in reverse order (ascending commit time) which is useful for code reviews:

git log commit..commit -p --reverse

Partial staging, select rows to stages:

git add -p test.txt

• DN: distinguished name
• CN: common name
• OU: organizational unit
• DC: domain component

• Search within base DN:

  ldapsearch -h example.com -b ",dc=example,dc=com" "cn=MY_IDENTIFIER"

• Search the whole database:

  ldapsearch -h example.com "cn=MY_IDENTIFIER"

• Search a host inside all Oracle TNS strings:

  ldapsearch -h example.com "orclNetDescString=*HOST=database.tld*"

1. RFC 1558: A String Representation of LDAP Search Filters
2. Wikipedia contributors. "LDAP Data Interchange Format." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 11 May. 2015. Web. 21 Oct. 2015.

Create .lnk files in batch:

powershell '$s=(New-Object -COM WScript.Shell).CreateShortcut("my_shortcut.lnk");$s.TargetPath="C:\my_path\to\some_file.txt";$s.Save()'