Just saved me about an hour’s worth of work:

$ git checkout branch file


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The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way.

Back in my olden days, I was a community manager for designers at a startup here in Boston. I would have loved to have this list of 20 tried and true ways to get satisfaction. One of my absolute favorites (and in the same vein as my previous post All Your Users are Rookies):

16. Old hat. Just because an issue is “old” to you, doesn’t mean it’s old to the person who is having it. In fact, it’s new to them. Don’t “uh duh!” them, help them out.

You don’t even really have to be a community manager to appreciate this list. Customer service folks, solo entrepreneurs, or just anyone that interacts with your member base should read (and study and print off and sleep with) this list.

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If you work on multiple Git branches throughout your workday, you probably  find yourslef constantly git branch‘ing more than you’d like.

Instead, why not add your current Git branch to your command prompt?

Just add this to your ~/.bashrc file:

That creates a command prompt that looks like this:

jeff@lookitdev Resources dev-MEM59 :

That’s your username at your current hostname, your current folder, and your current Git branch.