Useful Git options

Here are two articles about useful Git options that most people should probably use:

• Popular Git options by Julia Evans. This came out already a year ago but I was “too busy” to read it then.

• How Core Git Developers Configure Git by Scott Chacon.

These two lists are largely overlapping but Julia’s has a grab bag of smaller, yet useful options. I like Scott’s categorization of options, including options that “Clearly Makes Git Better”:

This first group of settings clearly makes Git better by default. There are generally zero downsides to enabling any of them.

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