Your personal git configurations are saved in the .gitconfig file in your home directory.
Here is an example .gitconfig file:
[user]
name = Your Name
email = you@yourdomain.example.com
[alias]
ci = commit -a
co = checkout
st = status
stat = status
br = branch
wdiff = diff --color-words
[core]
editor = vim
[merge]
summary = true
You can edit this file directly or you can use the git config --global command:
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
git config --global alias.ci "commit -a"
git config --global alias.co checkout
git config --global alias.st "status -a"
git config --global alias.stat "status -a"
git config --global alias.br branch
git config --global alias.wdiff "diff --color-words"
git config --global core.editor vim
git config --global merge.summary true
To set up on another computer, you can copy your ~/.gitconfig file, or run the commands above.
It is good practice to tell git who you are, for labeling any changes you make to the code. The simplest way to do this is from the command line:
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email you@yourdomain.example.com
This will write the settings into your git configuration file, which should now contain a user section with your name and email:
[user]
name = Your Name
email = you@yourdomain.example.com
Of course you’ll need to replace Your Name and you@yourdomain.example.com with your actual name and email address.
You might well benefit from some aliases to common commands.
For example, you might well want to be able to shorten git checkout to git co. Or you may want to alias git diff --color-words (which gives a nicely formatted output of the diff) to git wdiff
The following git config --global commands:
git config --global alias.ci "commit -a"
git config --global alias.co checkout
git config --global alias.st "status -a"
git config --global alias.stat "status -a"
git config --global alias.br branch
git config --global alias.wdiff "diff --color-words"
will create an alias section in your .gitconfig file with contents like this:
[alias]
ci = commit -a
co = checkout
st = status -a
stat = status -a
br = branch
wdiff = diff --color-words
You may also want to make sure that your editor of choice is used
git config --global core.editor vim
To enforce summaries when doing merges (~/.gitconfig file again):
[merge]
log = true
Or from the command line:
git config --global merge.log true
This is a very nice alias to get a fancy log output; it should go in the alias section of your .gitconfig file:
lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)[%an]%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
You use the alias with:
git lg
and it gives graph / text output something like this (but with color!):
* 6d8e1ee - (HEAD, origin/my-fancy-feature, my-fancy-feature) NF - a fancy file (45 minutes ago) [Matthew Brett]
* d304a73 - (origin/placeholder, placeholder) Merge pull request #48 from hhuuggoo/master (2 weeks ago) [Jonathan Terhorst]
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| * 4aff2a8 - fixed bug 35, and added a test in test_bugfixes (2 weeks ago) [Hugo]
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* a7ff2e5 - Added notes on discussion/proposal made during Data Array Summit. (2 weeks ago) [Corran Webster]
* 68f6752 - Initial implimentation of AxisIndexer - uses 'index_by' which needs to be changed to a call on an Axes object - this is all very sketchy right now. (2 weeks ago) [Corr
* 376adbd - Merge pull request #46 from terhorst/master (2 weeks ago) [Jonathan Terhorst]
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| * b605216 - updated joshu example to current api (3 weeks ago) [Jonathan Terhorst]
| * 2e991e8 - add testing for outer ufunc (3 weeks ago) [Jonathan Terhorst]
| * 7beda5a - prevent axis from throwing an exception if testing equality with non-axis object (3 weeks ago) [Jonathan Terhorst]
| * 65af65e - convert unit testing code to assertions (3 weeks ago) [Jonathan Terhorst]
| * 956fbab - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' (3 weeks ago) [Jonathan Terhorst]
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Thanks to Yury V. Zaytsev for posting it.