Git General Prerequisites

1. Install Git

• git-scm.com/download

2. Introduce yourself:

    git config --global user.name "Your Name Comes Here"
    git config --global user.email [email protected]
   

3. Set up Editor. Pick your favorite:

• OS X:

  git config --global --add core.editor "open -W -e -n"

• Windows:

  git config --global core.editor "'C:/Program Files/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin"

    or
  

  git config --global core.editor "'C:/Program Files (x86)/Notepad++/notepad++.exe' -multiInst -notabbar -nosession -noPlugin"

• Generic:

   `git config --global core.editor 'vim'`
  
    or
  
   `git config --global core.editor emacs`
  

4. Set up diff and merge tools:

    git config --global diff.tool winmerge
    git config --global difftool.prompt false
    git config --global difftool.winmerge.cmd "WinMergeU.exe -r -u -e -dl Local -dr Remote \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\""
   
    git config --global merge.tool kdiff3
    git config --global mergetool.kdiff3.cmd "kdiff3 $BASE $LOCAL $REMOTE -o $MERGED"
   
    git config --global merge.tool winmerge
    git config --global mergetool.prompt false
    git config --global mergetool.winmerge.trustExitCode true
    git config --global mergetool.winmerge.cmd "WinMergeU.exe -r -u -e -dl Local -dr Remote \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" \"$BASE\" \"$MERGED\""
   

5. Color Options:

    git config --global color.diff auto
    git config --global color.status auto
    git config --global color.branch auto
   
    git config --global color.status.untracked "red bold"
    git config --global color.status.added "green bold"
    git config --global color.status.changed "magenta bold"
   

    git config --global alias.logs "log --graph --pretty=format:%C(auto)%h_%d%s_%C(green)(%cd)_%C(cyan)<%an>%Creset --date=local"

6.5 Common settings:

    git config --global push.followTags true

7. Do this to avoid 'SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate'

   git config --global http.sslVerify false
   

8. Proxy set up:

   git config --global http.proxy http://127.0.0.1:9000
   

   to access internet git sites through a proxy server.

   git may also use environment variables:

   set HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:9000
   

   to tell git to bypass the proxy server for certain remotes on a per-repository basis, replace "origin" with the name of the remote:

   git config --add remote.origin.proxy ""
   

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References

• Git Use Cases