Git Flow is a very popular workflow for working with git. I have the lucky to set up Git on a medium sized project, and the following article helped me a lot… I report you the schema too, because it was very useful in a presentation I attended.

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In the last seven months I learned git, working for a dozen of projects. On some of them I was the master&commander, on others I only set up the streams and let the young Jedi find the way to the delivery. Via trial and error I find out a bunch of userful commands.

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ForceBindIP is a freeware Windows application that will inject itself into another application and alter how certain Windows Sockets calls are made, allowing you to force the other application to use a specific network interface / IP address. This is useful if you are in an environment with multiple interfaces and your application has no such option for binding to a specific interface.

via ForceBindIP - Bind any Windows application to a specific interface.

Using iPhone/Android Tethering features, you can end up with a

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In a nutshell, xargs is an alternative to fully expanded shell for loops. Given the right options, xargs can be made to exhibit for-loop-like behavior. But out of the box, it is a way to pipe a bunch of arguments to a single command in one fell swoop.

This can save a great deal of compute time if you are piping a long list of arguments to a command rather than iterating over them one at a time.

In  A small primer on xargs you will find a deep explanation on xargs usage. The article teach me a bunch of tricks I am not aware of (and I know Unix from ‘93….yes, 1993…).

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