Knowledge Base

And now for something completely different, here's my workstations' ~/.gitconfig, the global git config. So this is not for any particular repository; it's the overall settings.

[user]
    name = B. Stack
    email = bgstack15@gmail.com
[credential]
    helper = cache --timeout=7200
[diff]
    color = auto
[pull]
    rebase = false
[http]
    emptyAuth = true
[sendemail]
   smtpserver = server2.ipa.internal.com
   smtpserverport = 25

Section [user] is of course my name and email.

Section [credential] caches my password for 2 hours. That seems to be a good number.

Section [diff] sets color to auto, so when not piping to something else, display pretty Christmas colors!

Section [pull]. I don't remember why I have this, but probably to silence some warning or deprecation notice. Whatever.

Section [http] is useful with kerberos. When a git remote of http://gitserver.ipa.internal.com accepts kerberos authentication, it sends back a challenge to authenticate. Git needs emptyAuth=true or else it will never get around to submitting the user's kerberos ticket. This requires a newer version of Git than what CentOS 7 has.

Section [sendemail] I barely use, but was for when I was trying to generate git emails. I only used it once or twice, and I didn't like the data leakage that happened, so I ended up not using it.

Conclusion

I started off of course, thinking that I wouldn't want to customize my tools because then I'd have to carry those everywhere I go. But over time, more and more settings are useful to me and I need them. So just like my .vimrc, my .gitconfig has grown.

What's in your git config?

References

for git 2.11 and higher, krberos auth https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/kerberos_troubleshooting.html