Useful Git ConfigThe settings worth putting in your global config on a new machine.Computinggit config --global <key> <value>Identityuser.nameuser.emailinit.defaultBranch mainSafetypull.rebase truepush.default simplefetch.prune truerebase.autoStash trueQuality of lifecore.editordiff.algorithm histogrammerge.conflictStyle zdiff3column.ui autoAliasesalias.s status -sbalias.lg log --oneline --graphalias.last log -1 HEADmerge.conflictStyle zdiff3 shows the common ancestor in a conflict,which usually makes the resolution obvious.Useful Git Configlearnposters.com
Useful Git Config — printable computing wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Useful Git Config poster

14 entries in 4 groups.

git config --global <key> <value>

merge.conflictStyle zdiff3 shows the common ancestor in a conflict, which usually makes the resolution obvious.

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What’s on the Useful Git Config poster?
14 entries in 4 groups. git config --global <key> <value>. Identity: user.name, user.email, init.defaultBranch main; Safety: pull.rebase true, push.default simple, fetch.prune true, rebase.autoStash true; Quality of life: core.editor, diff.algorithm histogram, merge.conflictStyle zdiff3, c…; Aliases: alias.s status -sb, alias.lg log --oneline --graph, alias.last log -1 HEAD. merge.conflictStyle zdiff3 shows the common ancestor in a conflict, which usually makes the resolution obvious.
Who is the Useful Git Config poster for?
Useful Git Config belongs to the Computing section rather than to a school year, because computing is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tools can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Useful Git Config poster?
Set these once. Several of them prevent whole classes of mistake. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Useful Git Config belongs on the wall where that computing work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Useful Git Config?
Code Review, Debugging Method and Docker Basics sit alongside Useful Git Config in the Computing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Code ReviewDebugging MethodDocker Basics
Is the Useful Git Config poster free to download and print?
Yes. Useful Git Config downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Computing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Useful Git Config poster print at?
Useful Git Config is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Useful Git Config loses nothing.Printing guide

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