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What are your favorite Git configuration settings which make your life easy while working with Git?

Jonathan Leffler
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Rachel
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  • Any more tips & tricks with Git Configuraton ? – Rachel Mar 06 '10 at 17:18
  • @Sure: in the meantime, you can also define your own config default setting here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2093077/default-config-settings-for-a-new-git-repository – VonC Mar 06 '10 at 18:22

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Best one I have was picked up off Scott Chacon from a talk he gave:

[alias]
    lol = log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit --graph --decorate

I get excited every time I type git lol.

csexton
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The aliases I mention in Trimming GIT Checkins (and the fixup! action from the recent Git1.7.0):

[alias]
    fixup = !sh -c 'git commit -m \"fixup! $(git log -1 --format='\\''%s'\\'' $@)\"' -
    squash = !sh -c 'git commit -m \"squash! $(git log -1 --format='\\''%s'\\'' $@)\"'

, really help me to commit very often even though I am in the middle of one task, allowing me to finish it with one coherent commit at the end (instead of too many small intermediate commits).
Not exactly "fun", but very useful.

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VonC
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  • Depending on how you're using this, you can probably get the same effect with `git commit (--fixup|--squash) $commit` – Max Nanasy Mar 08 '13 at 07:36
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I use:

[color]
    ui = auto

It makes diffs and things pretty. :-)

Daniel Stutzbach
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alias gs='git status'
alias ga='git add .'
alias gc='git commit -m'

This is 80% of the typing I do in git on any given day. I know I can combine the last two aliases with the -am flag, but it's nice to have the separated, that way I can check the status of the index before I commit.

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