.gitconfig - Be sure to change the information in the [user] section to your username! A lot of this came from all over the WWW, including from the maestro @iansheridan

.gitconfig

[color]
  ui = auto
[color "branch"]
  current = yellow reverse
  local = yellow
  remote = green
[color "diff"]
  meta = yellow bold
  frag = magenta bold
  old = red bold
  new = green bold
[color "status"]
  added = green
  changed = yellow
  untracked = red
[alias]
  st = status
  ci = commit
  br = branch
  co = checkout
  df = diff
  l = log --pretty=oneline -n 20 --graph
  lg = log -p
  lol = log --graph --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h%Creset %an: %s - %Creset %C(yellow)%d%Creset %Cblue(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
  lola = log --graph --pretty=format:'%C(yellow)%h%Creset %an: %s - %Creset %C(yellow)%d%Creset %Cblue(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative --all
  ls = ls-file
  s = status -s
  tags = tags -l
  branches = branch -a
  # Credit an author on the latest commit
  credit = "!f() { git commit --amend --author \"$1 <$2>\" -C HEAD; }; f"
[user]
  name = MY_USERNAME
  email = MY_EMAIL_ADDRESS
[core]
  excludesfile = ~/.gitignore