Examples of useful stuff to have in your global git config file

.gitconfig

[user]
	name = User Name	# to be used in commits
	email = user@email 	# to be used in commits
[difftool]
	prompt 	= false
[diff]
	tool 	= meld 				# use meld as 'git difftool' application
[color]
	ui 		= true
	diff 	= auto
	status 	= auto
	branch 	= auto
[alias]
	st		= status
	lcb 	= commit -am 'LCB (last commit bits)'
	atp 	= commit -am 'ATP (all tests passing)'
	lg 		= log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit
	lga 	= log --color --graph --branches --decorate --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit
	cam 	= commit -am 
	ls 		= diff-tree --no-commit-id --name-only -r
	cba		= shortlog -s -n
	cbaa 	= shortlog -s -n --all
	day		= log --color --pretty=format:'%Cgreen[%ci] %C(bold blue)%an%Creset%x09%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s' --abbrev-commit --since="0am" --all
	la    	= !grep '\t=' ~/.gitconfig
	#la    	= ! git config --get-regexp alias | sed 's/^alias\.//' | awk '{ printf $1; $1=""; print "\t= " $0 }'

[core]
	excludesfile = /home/andrefs/.gitignore
	editor 	= vim