Windows Sublime Text 2 (Build 2181) The latest Build 2181 just added support for the -w (wait) command line argument. The following configuration will allow ST2 to work as your default git editor on Windows. This will allow git to open ST2 for commit messages and such. git config –global core.editor “‘c:/program files/sublime text 2/sublime_text.exe’ … Read more
The original poster asks: What is the difference between the two (Committer vs author)? The author is the person who originally wrote the code. The committer, on the other hand, is assumed to be the person who committed the code on behalf of the original author. This is important in Git because Git allows you … Read more
Git checks four places for a configuration file: Your machine’s system .gitconfig file. Your user .gitconfig file located at ~/.gitconfig. A second user-specific configuration file located at $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config or $HOME/.config/git/config. The local repository’s configuration file .git/config. The settings cascade in the following order, with each file adding or overriding settings defined in the file above … Read more
You can configure an individual repo to use a specific user / email address which overrides the global configuration. From the root of the repo, run git config user.name “Your Name Here” git config user.email [email protected] whereas the default user / email is configured in your ~/.gitconfig git config –global user.name “Your Name Here” git … Read more
As long as you’re just renaming a file, and not a folder, you can just use git mv: git mv -f yOuRfIlEnAmE yourfilename (As of a change in Git 2.0.1, the -f flag in the incantation above is superfluous, but it was needed in older Git versions.)
Since Git 1.7.9 (released 2012), there is a neat mechanism in Git to avoid having to type your password all the time for HTTP / HTTPS, called credential helpers. You can just use one of the following credential helpers: git config –global credential.helper cache The credential.helper cache value tells Git to keep your password cached … Read more
Attention: This method saves the credentials in plaintext on your PC’s disk. Everyone on your computer can access it, e.g. malicious NPM modules. Run git config –global credential.helper store then git pull provide a username and password and those details will then be remembered later. The credentials are stored in a file on the disk, … Read more