You could use git alias or bash alias if you are using shell-available OS. git alias : Run this command to add alias: git config –global alias.dfw ‘diff –ignore-space-change’ –ignore-space-change can be abbreviated to -w to apply the alias using: git dfw bash alias : Run this command to add bash alias: echo “alias gitdfw=’git … Read more
Why Git won’t let you push to non-bare repositories The original poster says: One solution is to run the following command: git config receive.denyCurrentBranch ignore After this it works, but I would like to know why I need to use this option. Is this the only option? What are the consequences of doing this? As … Read more
In your terminal, navigate to the repo you want to make the changes in. Execute git config –list to check current username & email in your local repo. Change username & email as desired. Make it a global change or specific to the local repo: git config [–global] user.name “Full Name” git config [–global] user.email … Read more
If it is a system wide config, each user can override a config value in his/her global and local settings. But there is no easy way to “deactivate” a setting in a lower config file. Even set it to “” generally has unintended consequences. That very topic was discussed in April 2010. For instance, deactivating … Read more
Same problem using VS 2015, my workaround : Install Git http://git-scm.com/ Configure Git to use http instead of git:// with Git Bash git config –global url.”http://”.insteadOf git:// Edit (as pointed by g.pickardou) you can use https to be more secure: git config –global url.”https://”.insteadOf git:// Configure VS to use the new installed Git over VS … Read more
There are 3 levels of git config; project, global and system. project: Project configs are only available for the current project and stored in .git/config in the project’s directory. global: Global configs are available for all projects for the current user and stored in ~/.gitconfig. system: System configs are available for all the users/projects and … Read more
Git does not support per-branch excludes files You’re trying to achieve something that Git does not support. The blog post is the original source of this hoax that the Stack Overflow answer only parroted. As noted in comments under that answer, even the original blog post contains discussion that brings out that the solution does … Read more
If you consider the Git Faq section “Git Aliases with argument”, you could do it, but by calling git through a shell: [alias] rb = “!sh -c \”git rebase -i HEAD~$1\” -” I haven’t tested it yet, but if you can pass an argument, that would be the way to do it. A similar solution … Read more
There is even a possibility to set the ignore mode for every added submodule within the .gitmodules file. Just today I encountered this problem and immediately wrote an article in my blog about it after finding a solution: How to ignore changes in git submodules The gist of it: Once you added a submodule there … Read more
From a blog I found: This [git-credential-cache] doesn’t work for Windows systems as git-credential-cache communicates through a Unix socket. Git for Windows Since msysgit has been superseded by Git for Windows, using Git for Windows is now the easiest option. Some versions of the Git for Windows installer (e.g. 2.7.4) have a checkbox during the … Read more