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Essential Software Commands: What's Crucial in Your Toolbox?

Essential skills are often emphasized in various professions. In the context of software engineering, what commands are considered fundamental, and why are they crucial for professionals in the field?


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Ben Halpern

Not crucial, but I love git standup via this utility

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Recall what you did on the last working day. Psst! or be nosy and find what someone else in your team did ;-)

git-standup

Recall what you did on the last working day ..or be nosy and find what someone else did.

A little tool that I always wanted for myself. I work on several repositories on daily basis and it is mostly difficult for me to remember where I left off in each one of them. git-standup helps me with running standups and keeping track of what I have been doing. By default it gives you the most common usage i.e. shows you commits from the last working day in the current directory and the directories below current level plus it comes with several options to modify how it behaves.

Requirements

The only requirement is having good commit messages :)

Install

You can install git-standup using one of the options listed below

Source Command
curl curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup/master/installer.sh | sudo sh
npm npm install -g git-standup
brew brew update && brew install
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