Git Tips

From VLE

This page presents some commands to use Git as well as possible days after days.

Default configuration

• To define informations about the current developer:

git config --global user.name "Gauthier Quesnel"
git config --global user.email quesnel@users.sourceforge.net
git config --global core.editor vim

• To activate colors:

git config --global color.ui true
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.interactive auto

• To format patch without trailing whitespaces Not always automatically, but only when formatting :

git config --global core.whitespace trailing-space,space-before-tab
git config --global apply.whitespace fix

• To show all configuration parameters:

git config --list

Commands

• To build an archive (tarball) from the current HEAD of the repository:

git archive --format=tar --prefix=vle-`git describe`/ HEAD | bzip2 > ../vle-`git describe`.tar.bz2

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