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Wikipedia’s Thank-you note received after donation.

I got this thank-you email for donating to Wikipedia today. I usually don’t read emails this long, but this email was compelling enough.. Wikipedia has truly helped me a lot in my learning, glad its there!

Dear Prakhar,

Thank you for donating to the Wikimedia Foundation. You are wonderful!

It’s easy to ignore our fundraising banners, and I’m really glad you didn’t. This is how Wikipedia pays its bills — people like you giving us money, so we can keep the site freely available for everyone around the world.

People tell me they donate to Wikipedia because they find it useful, and they trust it because even though it’s not perfect, they know it’s written for them. Wikipedia isn’t meant to advance somebody’s PR agenda or push a particular ideology, or to persuade you to believe something that’s not true. We aim to tell the truth, and we can do that because of you. The fact that you fund the site keeps us independent and able to deliver what you need and want from Wikipedia. Exactly as it should be.

You should know: your donation isn’t just covering your own costs. The average donor is paying for his or her own use of Wikipedia, plus the costs of hundreds of other people. Your donation keeps Wikipedia available for an ambitious kid in Bangalore who’s teaching herself computer programming. A middle-aged homemaker in Vienna who’s just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. A novelist researching 1850s Britain. A 10-year-old in San Salvador who’s just discovered Carl Sagan.

On behalf of those people, and the half-billion other readers of Wikipedia and its sister sites and projects, I thank you for joining us in our effort to make the sum of all human knowledge available for everyone. Your donation makes the world a better place. Thank you.

Most people don’t know Wikipedia’s run by a non-profit. Please consider sharing this e-mail with a few of your friends to encourage them to donate too. And if you’re interested, you should try adding some new information to Wikipedia. If you see a typo or other small mistake, please fix it, and if you find something missing, please add it. There are resources that can help you get started. Don’t worry about making a mistake: that’s normal when people first start editing and if it happens, other Wikipedians will be happy to fix it for you.

I appreciate your trust in us, and I promise you we’ll use your money well.

Thanks,
Sue

Sue Gardner
Executive Director,
Wikimedia Foundation
https://donate.wikimedia.org

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Common git commands to use

Here are a common git commands that I end up using pretty frequently. Will keep on updating this list

  1. List all remote branches

    2. Simplest is git branch -a Shows all remote and local branches. git branch -r Will show all remote branches only.
    Another way is to use git remote feature like:
    git remote show origin This shows all branches on remote and how they corelate with local repo.
    git ls-remote Will meticulously list all branches and tags.

  2. Just view modified files between 2 branches (without diff)

    3. git diff --name-status master..branch Will list out only filenames git diff master..branch without –name-status will show whole diff.

  3. git remote -v Displays url of remote repo from where local git was pulled

    4. Alternatively use git remote show origin or git config --get remote.origin.url

  4. Viewing Unpushed Git Commits

    5. git log origin/master..HEAD
    To view diffs: git diff origin/master..HEAD
    Another way: git log @{u}..