Note: This was originally posted on my blog at https://therobinkim.com/blog/git-add-everything-but-whitespace-changes. Any updates will appear there and not here.

git log | subl allows you to view the Git log in Sublime Text (assuming your symlink has been established). Or you can write into a file with git log > gitlog.txt! More about these strange symbols (like >, >>, |, and <) here.

Wget

ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache HTTP server. (source)

I saw Ryan Dahl’s Introduction to Node presentation where he used the ab command line utility.

Git was created by Linus Torvalds, who created the Linux kernel. He supposedly likes to name things after himself.

git /git/ noun (informal, British)

an unpleasant or contemptible person

Even in its own documentation, Git is called “the stupid content tracker.”