Git: Twelve Curated Tips And Workflows From The Trenches

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• Making ‘git diff’ wrap long lines
• Set a global proxy
• Clone only a specific branch
• Diff file against remote branch
• List all deleted files in the repository
• Search for a string in all revisions of entire git history
• Apply a patch from another (unrelated) local repository
• Making a more recent branch the new master
• Adding an initial empty commit to a branch to allow full rebase
• Zero a branch to do something radically different
• How to modify a specified commit?
• How to stash only one file out of multiple files that have changed