Setting up Git

git-setup.md

Git Quick Start

Install git

$ sudo apt-get install git

User settings

$ git config --global user.name "Dwayne R. Crooks"
$ git config --global user.email "me@dwaynecrooks.com"

Core settings

$ git config --global core.editor nano
$ git config --global core.excludesfile $HOME/.gitignore_global

or you can use Sublime Text 2 as the default editor

$ git config --global core.editor "subl -n -w"

Contents of $HOME/.gitignore_global

*~

Other settings

$ git config --global color.ui true

Useful aliases

Add to .gitconfig

[alias]
  co = checkout
  ci = commit
  st = status
  br = branch
  hist = log --pretty=format:\"%h %ad | %s%d [%an]\" --graph --date=short
  type = cat-file -t
  dump = cat-file -p

Add to .bashrc

alias gs='git status '
alias ga='git add '
alias gb='git branch '
alias gc='git commit '
alias gd='git diff '
alias go='git checkout '

workflows.md

Git Workflows

• GitHub Flow
• git-flow