[markus_zhang]

I was so frustrated by having to enter a lot of information for every new git project (I use a new VM for each project) so I wrote a shell script that automates everything for me.

I'll probably also combine a few git commands for every commit and push.

[sureglymop]

Sounds like a cool setup! Did you write it up somewhere publicly?

I also use VMs (qemu microvms) based on docker images for development.

[markus_zhang]

Sorry it's on my other machine so I don't have it at hand. But it's an extremely simple setup that configs the email, the user, removes the need of --set-upstream when pushing, automate pushing with token.

I asked ChatGPT to write it and double checked btw.

[stephenr]

Most of those things can just be set in your global git config file, and surely you're using some kind of repeatable/automated setup for VMs.. I don't see why you'd ever need to be doing something other than "copy default git config file" in your Vagrantfile/etc

[markus_zhang]

That's a good idea. I use VirtualBox but I'm sure there is something similar I can do.

[stephenr]

The benefit of vagrant is it works with a wide variety of Hypervisors (including vbox) and strongly encourages a reproducible setup through defined provisioning steps.