Hello there ..<\/p>\n
Writing my first blog , I am still amazed by the effectiveness of working with Git . No matter how many times you mess up.. you can \u00a0still end up with a Clean Working directory. (Believe me .. \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0) . \u00a0I have also heard about the frustrating merge situations people have been in .. but I guess it has more to do with working systematically rather than with Git itself .<\/p>\n
The one thing you can do to make life a bit more easy on git is brighten up the environment. A plain white\/black color combo for a terminal can make it difficult to track large number of line additions such as in git diff (even though it is represented by a +\/- sign .. we can still make it look better).<\/p>\n
So the one thing we can do<\/strong> is play around with it and make it much more lively by adding some color.<\/p>\n First things first \u00a0… Adding Some color .Adding color to your command output can be as simple as something like<\/p>\n git config –global color.diff auto<\/strong><\/p>\n This basically sets up a git config file with a color property in diff set to auto. Thats it .. simply enter git diff and\u00a0viola\u00a0…<\/p>\n Kodachrome<\/strong> is back \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n Anytime you want to remove it simply put in<\/p>\n git \u00a0config –global color.diff false<\/strong> ..<\/p>\n Similarly one can do the same with status and branch outputs with<\/p>\n git config –global color.status auto<\/strong><\/p>\n git config –global color.branch auto<\/strong><\/p>\n You can also enter your information with<\/p>\n git config –global user.name \u00a0“Manoj”<\/strong><\/p>\n git config –global user.email “manoj@intelligrape.com “<\/strong><\/p>\n Now these files get added to your Git config file instantly but you can also separately go into your Git config file and add these entries .. \u00a0Just type \u00a0 ~\/vim .gitconfig<\/strong><\/p>\n The file now would look something like this –<\/p>\n Now if you’ve had problems with the git merge tool being a tad bit simplistic .. you could go in for something like a Meld<\/strong> that gives you a efficient and powerful Linux GUI. \u00a0 Just install it and specify something like<\/p>\n git config –global merge.tool meld<\/p>\n<\/div>\n