Popular git config options

Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options are, like: “basically nobody uses this one” “80% of people use this, probably take a look” “this one has 6 possible values but people only really use these 2 in practice” So I asked about people’s favourite git config options on Mastodon: what are your favourite git config options to set? Right now

[tokizuoh]

“These push.default options tell git push to automatically push the current branch to a remote branch with the same name. push.default simple is the default in Git. It only works if your branch is already tracking a remote branch push.default current is similar, but it’ll always push the local b

[hc0001]

シンプルな git コマンドしか使っていないので、勉強になる。特に `diff.algorithm histogram` と `core.excludesfile` は重宝する。新し目な `rebase.autosquash` あたりも使いこなせれば便利そう

[tmatsuu]

git-configでよく設定されている項目一覧。わいわい

[sakuro]

core.commentchar = ";" (うっかりコミットメッセージにmarkdownを書いて、見出しの # が消えた覚えがある人に / grep.patternType = perl (PCREをgrepのデフォルトに)

[ledsun]

人気のあるgit config設定の解説