Some tips for git setup and git config
13 Feb 2014
the ssh key
generate ssh key
cd ~/.ssh/
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "changeme@xxx.com" -f filename
If the options f
is not input, the file name of the public/pirvate rsa key pair files will be: id_rsa, id_rsa.pub.
add ssh key
ssh-add ~/.ssh/xxx
list all added ssh key
ssh-add -l
you may run into this error when try ssh-add
:
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.
eval `ssh-agent -s`
add ssh key permanently
Add the key path to ~/.ssh/config
$ vim ~/.ssh/config
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/gitHubKey
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/xxx
git config
global config & repository config
The global setting is stored in ~/.gitconfig
The config of repository is stored in ./.git/config
, in the repository directory.
git config --global
will use global config, without --global
options will use try to use the config file ./git/config
in current directory.
config user name & user email for every repository
You may work with multiple repositories, so it is a good practice to config user information for every repository.
# for global setting
git config --global user.name xxx
git config --global user.email xxx@xxx.com
# for repository
git config user.name xxxx
git config user.email xxxx@xxx.com
git alias
Setup alias for convenience.
#git st => git status
git config --global alias.st 'status'
#git co => git checkout
git config --global alias.co 'checkout'
#git lg to view commit log like network graph
git config --global alias.lg "log --all --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%ci) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit"
#...
# whatever you like
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