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Optimize Git Configuration Settings

Maximize efficiency and streamline your Git workflow with essential configuration settings.

Config

Set email

git config --global user.email "user@localhost"

Set username

git config –global user.name "user"

Set editor

git config --global core.editor "vim"

Merge tools

git config --global merge.tool vimdiff

Set aliases

In this example you can use git ci instead of git commit

git config --global alias.ci commit

Setup GPG

git config --global --unset gpg.format

signKey="$(gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long|grep -i sec|cut -d'/' -f2|cut -d' ' -f1)"
git config --global user.signingkey $signKey
git config --global commit.gpgsign true
[ -f ~/.bashrc ] && echo -e '\nexport GPG_TTY=$(tty)' >> ~/.bashrc

Telling Git about your SSH key

git config --global gpg.format ssh
git config --global user.signingkey /PATH/TO/.SSH/KEY.PUB

Push origin

git push --set-upstream origin main

List gpg key for add to ~/.gitconfig

gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format=long

Colored outputs

git config --global color.ui false

To query the value for a given key, do

git config --get core.filemode

Configure global settings

git config --global --edit

Reset author

git commit --amend --reset-author

Set default branch name

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Add repository to gitea

touch README.md
git init
git checkout -b main
git add README.md
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin http://192.168.1.181:3000/wuseman/vim.git
git push -u origin main

Switching remote URLs from HTTPS to SSH

git remote set-url origin http://192.168.1.181:3000/wuseman/vim

Git, fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

  • Fix this by raise postBuffer
git config http.postBuffer 524288000