Git Configurations
Setting Global Git Username and Password
git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "youremail@yourdomain.com"Ref:
Credential Helper
Store Git username and password (will never ask for credentials again)
git config --global credential.helper store– Stores credentials in~/.git-credentials(not secure)
Cache credentials for a session
git config --global credential.helper cache
Cache credentials with timeout
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=28800– timeout takes in integer as seconds, 28800 = 8hrs
Alternative, more secure setup. Update the URL of origin remote using SSH instead of HTTPS
git remote set-url origin git@github.com:username/repo.git
More on Connecting to Github with SSH
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.gitignore
Examples
# Lines starting with `#` are comments.
# Ignore files called 'file.ext'
file.ext
# Comments can't be on the same line as rules!
# The following line ignores files called 'file.ext # not a comment'
file.ext # not a comment
# Ignoring files with full path.
# This matches files in the root directory and subdirectories too.
# i.e. otherfile.ext will be ignored anywhere on the tree.
dir/otherdir/file.ext
otherfile.ext
# Ignoring directories
# Both the directory itself and its contents will be ignored.
bin/
gen/
# Glob pattern can also be used here to ignore paths with certain characters.
# For example, the below rule will match both build/ and Build/
[bB]uild/
# Without the trailing slash, the rule will match a file and/or
# a directory, so the following would ignore both a file named `gen`
# and a directory named `gen`, as well as any contents of that directory
bin
gen
# Ignoring files by extension
# All files with these extensions will be ignored in
# this directory and all its sub-directories.
*.apk
*.class
# It's possible to combine both forms to ignore files with certain
# extensions in certain directories. The following rules would be
# redundant with generic rules defined above.
java/*.apk
gen/*.class
# To ignore files only at the top level directory, but not in its
# subdirectories, prefix the rule with a `/`
/*.apk
/*.class
# To ignore any directories named DirectoryA
# in any depth use ** before DirectoryA
# Do not forget the last /,
# Otherwise it will ignore all files named DirectoryA, rather than directories
**/DirectoryA/
# This would ignore
# DirectoryA/
# DirectoryB/DirectoryA/
# DirectoryC/DirectoryB/DirectoryA/
# It would not ignore a file named DirectoryA, at any level
# To ignore any directory named DirectoryB within a
# directory named DirectoryA with any number of
# directories in between, use ** between the directories
DirectoryA/**/DirectoryB/
# This would ignore
# DirectoryA/DirectoryB/
# DirectoryA/DirectoryQ/DirectoryB/
# DirectoryA/DirectoryQ/DirectoryW/DirectoryB/
# To ignore a set of files, wildcards can be used, as can be seen above.
# A sole '*' will ignore everything in your folder, including your .gitignore file.
# To exclude specific files when using wildcards, negate them.
# So they are excluded from the ignore list:
!.gitignore
# Use the backslash as escape character to ignore files with a hash (#)
# (supported since 1.6.2.1)
\#*#Ignoring Committed Files
From the root directory
git rm -r --cached . && git add .Global
Creating global gitignore
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_globalRef: