git_install.sh

function get_latest_html()
{
	URL=$1
	PATTERN=$2
	TYPE=$3
	LATEST=`curl -s ${URL} | egrep -o '<a href="([^\"]+)"' | awk -F\" '{print $2 }' | egrep ${PATTERN} | egrep ${TYPE} |  egrep -v '(diff|sig)' | sort -nr | head -n1`
	curl -s "${URL}/${LATEST}"
}

function get_latest_text()
{
	URL=$1
	PATTERN=$2
	TYPE=$3
	LATEST=`curl -s ${URL} | egrep ${PATTERN} | egrep ${TYPE} | egrep -v '(diff|sig)' | awk '{print $9}' | sort -nr | head -n1`
	curl -s "${URL}/${LATEST}"
}


# GPG (if you didn't have it already)
get_latest_text "ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/" "gnupg" "tar\.bz2" | tar xj
cd gnupg-*
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# GetText
get_latest_html "http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/gnu/gettext/" "gettext" "tar\.gz" | tar xz
cd gettext-*
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..

# GIT
get_latest_html "http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/" "git-[0-9]+" "tar\.bz2" | tar xj
cd git-*
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
get_latest_html "http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/" "git-manpages-[0-9]+" "tar\.bz2" | sudo tar xj -C /usr/local/share/man

# alias "g" for "git"
cat >> ~/.profile << \EOF
alias g='git'
EOF
source ~/.profile


git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.interactive auto



# shortcuts
git config --global alias.st status
git config --global alias.ci commit
git config --global alias.co checkout
git config --global alias.br branch

if you ever have conflicts you can type git-mergetool
to use Apple opendiff (FileMerge) for resolving conflicts
git config --global merge.tool opendiff
Whenever we merge provide a summary of commits
git config --global merge.summary true

globally ignore some cruft files
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore
echo "*~" >~/.gitignore
echo ".DS_Store" >>~/.gitignore
echo -n "Input git username: "
read $USERNAME
git config --global user.name "$USERNAME"
echo -n "Input git email: "
read $EMAIL

git config --global user.email "$EMAIL"