Git auto and tips (windows + OS X)

Git Configuration Tips

1/ Configure git with your identity and colors:

To make some identity and colors change, type this line in Terminal:

vi ~/.gitconfig

Then enter (put your name instead of mine)

[user]

name = Khang Vo

email = vodkhang@gmail.com

[color]

ui = auto

2/ Git alias

You can also define some git aliases for the shell command line by doing vi ~/.gitconfig

Enter these lines (these aliases are just my suggestions — you can change it if you want, but here is my preference)

[alias]
        st = status
        ca = commit -am
        br = branch
        co = checkout
        lg = log -p
        au = add  -u
        l = pull
        s = push

Reference:
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases

3/ Bash shell auto-completion

In Windows, auto completion is by default, in Mac OS, you have to manuall set it up to have auto completion. These steps will help you to have an auto complete git on your MAC machine. It also display the current branch when you are in a git repository.

cd /tmp
git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
cd git
git checkout v`git --version | awk '{print $3}'`
cp contrib/completion/git-completion.bash ~/.git-completion.bash
cd ~
rm -rf /tmp/git
echo -e "source ~/.git-completion.bash" >> .profile
vim .profile

Put the following line

PS1='\u@\h:\W$(__git_ps1 " (%s)")\$ '

Then restart your terminal

Reference: http://denis.tumblr.com/post/71390665/adding-bash-completion-for-git-on-mac-os-x-leopard http://www.codethatmatters.com/2010/01/git-autocomplete-in-mac-os-x/

4/ Pull/Push auto-completion

By default, the git pull auto complete will contact with server. If you want to make auto-complete always complete using local branch names, then you can change the behavior.
This might only be useful if your local branch names are identical to remote branch names.
Edit the file ~/.git-completion.bash and around line 458, look for this code:

fetch)
if [ $lhs = 1 ]; then

        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs2 "$remote")" "$pfx" "$cur"
    else
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs)" "$pfx" "$cur"
    fi
    ;;
pull)
    if [ $lhs = 1 ]; then
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs "$remote")" "$pfx" "$cur"
    else
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs)" "$pfx" "$cur"
    fi
    ;;
push)
    if [ $lhs = 1 ]; then
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs)" "$pfx" "$cur"
    else
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs "$remote")" "$pfx" "$cur"
    fi
    ;;
esac

…and change it to this:

fetch)

    if [ $lhs = 1 ]; then
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs)" "$pfx" "$cur"
    else
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs "$remote")" "$pfx" "$cur"
    fi
    ;;
pull)
    if [ $lhs = 1 ]; then
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs)" "$pfx" "$cur"
    else
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs "$remote")" "$pfx" "$cur"
    fi
    ;;
push)
    if [ $lhs = 1 ]; then
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs)" "$pfx" "$cur"
    else
        __gitcomp "$(__git_refs "$remote")" "$pfx" "$cur"
    fi
    ;;
esac

(Notice that we changed the “fetch” and “pull” sections to use the same logic as “push”. This means it will be looking for local branch names instead of remote branches.)

Reference: http://superuser.com/questions/137689/git-pull-auto-complete-osx

http://blog.recursivity.com/post/834210510/there-is-something-rotten-in-the-state-of-computer