(blog.gitbutler.com) How Core Git Developers Configure Git

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How Core Git Developers Configure Git

What `git config` settings should be defaults by now? Here are some settings that even the core developers change.
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Git's
help.autocorrect
setting and the strange tale of the origin of it's deciseconds value.
It got me to thinking about other
git config
settings that most people likely don't know about and which should probably be defaulted differently.
In this post, I'll go through some of the perhaps obscure Git config settings that I have personally globally enabled and go into them to explain what they do and why they should probably be the default settings.
Also, it turns out that I learned most of these from the people who actually work on the core Git codebase every day.
** TLDR
First, though, some of you may not particularly care about the wonderful and sordid history of the
rerere
values or whatever. You may just be thinking “just give me the settings so I can blindly throw them into my
~/.gitconfig
file."
Well, fair enough. Here is the fun stuff:
# clearly makes git better

[column]
        ui = auto
[branch]
        sort = -committerdate
[tag]
        sort = version:refname
[init]
        defaultBranch = main
[diff]
        algorithm = histogram
        colorMoved = plain
        mnemonicPrefix = true
        renames = true
[push]
        default = simple
        autoSetupRemote = true
        followTags = true
[fetch]
        prune = true
        pruneTags = true
        all = true

# why the hell not?

[help]
        autocorrect = prompt
[commit]
        verbose = true
[rerere]
        enabled = true
        autoupdate = true
[core]
        excludesfile = ~/.gitignore
[rebase]
        autoSquash = true
        autoStash = true
        updateRefs = true

# a matter of taste (uncomment if you dare)

[core]
        # fsmonitor = true
        # untrackedCache = true
[merge]
        # (just 'diff3' if git version < 2.3)
        # conflictstyle = zdiff3
[pull]
        # rebase = true
Copypasta, my friends.

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