Re: The git spring cleanup challenge

[Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>]

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 01 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> 
> >   1. Remove all the configuration that is not essential (just leave
> >      user.name and user.email or equivalent)
> >   2. Pick 2 configurations you think you can't live without. You are not
> >      allowed to change them afterwards.
> >   3. Every day you can add 1 additional configuration (and update it the
> >      next day).
> >   4. The moment you add a 4th configuration you lose.
> 
> This proposal is somewhere between picking which 2 of your 4 kids gets
> to live and asking an alcoholic to stop drinking for a week just so he
> can tell you at the end what his favorite drinks are :)

Yeah, but if you can't enjoy life without alcohol, you probably have a
problem.

Are you saying vanilla git is *that* bad?

> So I skipped the "disable most config", but for what it's worth I think
> I'd miss these the most, I couldn't pick just N favorites, sorry:
> 
>  * diff.colorMoved=true: super useful, but I'd be vary of turning it on
>    by default in its current form. E.g. on gcc.git's changelog files it
>    has really pathological performance characteristics.

Very nice! I didn't know about it. I'll pick it for my third day.

>  * merge.defaultToUpstream: ditto other discussion, should be "true" by
>    default.

That is the default. I used it as an example of a configuration that
changed default (I did it in 2014).

(I just noticed the documentation of the config wasn't updated).

>  * checkout.defaultRemote=origin: I introduced this, so I'm biased, but
>    I find it super useful. Usually because I do "git branch -m
>    new-branch" on master to create topics, and then "git checkout
>    master" to get a master back (or use the existing one).

That is useful, but I don't think it's aptly named, it should be
something like checkout.autoUpstream. The name of the default branch
belongs elsewhere.

I would say core.defaultRemote.

Right now for example `git fetch` defaults to a hard-coded "origin".
Doesn't make much sense that the remote for automatic upstream checkout
can be configured, but not the one `git fetch` uses.

>  * commit.verbose=true: so you know what you're looking at in doing in
>    "git commit --amend".

Aha! My alias had `commit -v` but I would want this on all commit
commands.

Moreover, I was thinking on suggesting this by default. Who would it
hurt?

>  * grep.patternType=perl: Another personal soap box (but really, BRE
>    anywhere sucks).

Nice. `git grep` is the #2 command I use the most, and I often need to
specify another regexp because the basic one doesn't understand what I'm
trying to do.

> I also have a bunch of aliases that would not be useful to a general
> audience, but which I find I can't live without, some of the most
> commonly used ones:
> 
>     # Log with "less" n/p already going to the next/prev commit
>     log-psfd = "!f() { PAGER=\"less -p'^commit'\" git log -p --stat --full-diff $@; }; f"

Very neat.

> Similarly rebase is "r", "--interactive" is "ri", "--abort", and
> "--continue" are "ra" and "rc".

I have almost the same, except rbi, rbc, and rba. My 'r' is reset, but
since I use rebase more often I guess I should switch them up.

Theres are a couple of mine:

  advance = merge --ff-only
  undo = reset --hard @{1}
  
> If anyone's interested in the rest / full set:
> https://github.com/avar/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitconfig

Is thata private repo?

Here are mine:

https://github.com/felipec/dotfiles/blob/master/.gitconfig

-- 
Felipe Contreras