Customizing Git
Changing your Editor
$ git config --global core.editor emacs
Adding Aliases
$ git config --global alias.last 'cat-file commit HEAD'
$ git last
tree c85fbd1996b8e7e5eda1288b56042c0cdb91836b
parent cdc9a0a28173b6ba4aca00eb34f5aabb39980735
author Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> 1220473867 -0700
committer Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> 1220473867 -0700
fixed a weird formatting problem
$ git cat-file commit HEAD
tree c85fbd1996b8e7e5eda1288b56042c0cdb91836b
parent cdc9a0a28173b6ba4aca00eb34f5aabb39980735
author Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> 1220473867 -0700
committer Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com> 1220473867 -0700
fixed a weird formatting problem
Adding Color
See all color.* options in the git config docs
$ git config color.branch auto
$ git config color.diff auto
$ git config color.interactive auto
$ git config color.status auto
Or, you can set all of them on with the color.ui option:
$ git config color.ui true
Commit Template
$ git config commit.template '/etc/git-commit-template'
Log Format
$ git config format.pretty oneline
Other Config Options
There are also a number of interesting options for packing, gc-ing, merging, remotes, branches, http transport, diffs, paging, whitespace and more. If you want to tweak these, check out the git config docs.
