Git

Initial Setup

Local Project Config

git config user.name "John Doe"
git config user.email "john.doe@domain.com"
git config user.signingkey A000000000000000

Note

GitHub enables a private email to hide your email. Prefer to use that email to hide your real email.

It can be found in Settings > Emails.

Global Project Config

# Just add a --global flag
git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global commit.gpgsign true

View Config

git config --get user.email
git config --get --global user.email

Tracking Modifiers

Ignore Locally

• Ignore locally without chaning .gitignore file.
• Useful when some files start showing up due to modified whitespace.
• Also useful for config files.

# Ignore locally
git update-index --assume-unchanged <file/folder>

# Start tracking again
git update-index --no-assume-unchanged <file/folder>

Uses

Diff Since Creation of Branch

git --no-pager diff --unified=0 main...HEAD