Interesting discussion of git config options that the git core developers favor and that are not (yet) defaults. There are some nice suggestions. For example, I didn’t know that
git config --global push.autoSetupRemote true
existed. If you haven’t defined an upstream for a branch yet, git will automatically set it for you. So you don’t have to run
git push --set-upstream origin my-branch-name
anymore.
Some other options I adopted from this post:
# sort branches by last committed date
$ git config --global branch.sort -committerdate
# sort tags by tag-number not alphabetically
$ git config --global tag.sort version:refname
# better diff algorithm than the default myers
$ git config --global diff.algorithm histogram
# color moved code differently than added code in diffs
$ git config --global diff.colorMoved plain
# push branch to same-named remote
$ git config --global push.default simple
# attempt to autocorrect misspelled git commands in the cli
$ git config --global help.autocorrect prompt
# add the diff to the commit message draft
$ git config --global commit.verbose true
# 3-way-diffing
$ git config --global merge.conflictstyle zdiff3
link: https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/
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