[scrollaway]

I want to also recommend the following:

git config --global stash.showPatch true: A recent addition to git which defaults the -p flag to `git stash show`; meaning `git stash show` shows the diff from that stash (should really be default...)

git config --global rebase.autostash true: will automatically stash and unstash the working directory before and after rebases. This makes it possible to rebase with changes in the repo.

git config --global log.decorate full: Always decorate `git log`

[masklinn]

Other settings I appreciate:

    rebase.autoSquash true

When committing you can specify --squash=<commit> or --fixup=<commit>, `git rebase -i --autosquash` will then automatically move and mark the relevant commits in your rebase queue. Setting autosquash into your config enables it by default for all interactive rebases.

    user.useConfigOnly true

that's really convenient when you routinely use multiple identities on the same machine (e.g. personal and work): by default if you haven't configured an identity locally git will fallback to global, and then to guessing based on your current user and machine.

useConfigOnly mandates an explicit configuration, then you can just remove any global user or email, and git will require the correct configuration of any local repository before allowing commits.

    alias.original "!git show $(cat .git/rebase-apply/original-commit)"

when performing a rebase (interactive or not) it can be difficult to remember what the original intent of a specific commit is when it's mixed with conflict markers. This shows the original commit being rebased.

    alias.git "!git"

I regularly type "git", go do something else, remember what I wanted to do and type "git <command><return>". This makes "git git git git show" work instead of barfing.

Finally

    merge.tool <yourtool>

Will automatically use the specified tool when invoking "git mergetool", if you like external utilities to perform merges or conflict resolution (e.g. emerge, kdiff3, araxis, vimdiff3, meld, etc… the list of builtin tool support is accessible via "git mergetool --tool-help")

[collinmanderson]

I just use `git show stash` rather than `git stash show`.