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You can have a command repeatedly executed and the output displayed. This is useful e.g. for monitoring file system changes...
If you are fine with the default console diff most of the time but only sometimes want to use an...
This might be relevant for us since we're often managing customer documents in our apps. I played around with...
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Using the -U parameter you can change how many lines are shown above and below a changed section.
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If you're trying to start a cloud-init based Ubuntu VM with KVM you will suffer long boot times...
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#reverse_order does not work with complex sorting constraints and may even silently create malformed SQL for rails < 5.
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You might get the above error message when cloning certain git repositories (for example the rails repository). It indicates that...
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