linux bash and git tricks

linux-bash-and-git-tricks.md

# find and group by extension
# http://serverfault.com/a/183432/128858
find ./ -type f -not -path "./.git/*" | grep -E ".*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*$" | sed -e 's/.*\(\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*\)$/\1/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

      1 .GIF
      1 .JPG
      1 .bash
      1 .bmp
      1 .cfm
      1 .html
      1 .info
      1 .module
      1 .otf
      1 .xml
      2 .asp
      2 .htaccess
      2 .md
      3 .gdf
      5 .swf
     30 .eot
     30 .woff
     34 .json
     34 .ttf
     39 .css
     45 .svg
     93 .gif
    107 .txt
    111 .sql
    130 .js
    224 .jpg
    267 .less
    304 .tpl
    603 .png
   2729 .php

git shortlog --summary --numbered --since="01-Jun-2015" --until="30-Jun-2015"

clone an orphan branch of some git remote and nuke all the files

BRANCH='REPLACE-WITH-YOUR-NEW-BRANCH-NAME' && \
REPO='REPLACE-WITH-THE-REPO-URI' && \
git clone --single-branch $REPO $BRANCH && \
cd $BRANCH && \
git checkout --orphan $BRANCH HEAD && \
git rm -rf .