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Git with your friends (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Is Git Dry Runs Good Enough?

Git has a dry run feature, which is like the arsenic one that you described there. It enables you to get some idea of how the command will affect the state of the repository. This tool by Jacob Stopack from the initial commit team visualizes it for you as if it's a dry run. The purely text based output can be quite sparse as is typical of Git's command line interface.

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