My personal git configuration being used on my laptop as well as on servers I have to deal with.

• colours everywhere
• many aliases to save your fingers!
• using vim for diff and merges
• git-sh-prompt setup

• Download or clone the repository to some directory (e.g. ~/github/porn/gitconfig/).

cd
mkdir -p github/porn
cd github/porn
git clone https://github.com/porn/gitconfig.git

• Include the gitconfig file in your ~/.gitconfig:

[include]
	path = ~/github/porn/gitconfig/gitconfig
...

This way your personal changes won't overwrite the file when you use:

git config --global user.name "James Bond"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Feel free to use my collection of file patterns I don't want to track:

• Symlink the global gitignore file to your home directory

ln -s ~/github/porn/gitignore.global ~/.gitignore

To display the git repository status in the bash prompt there are two options.

I'd love to recommend starship project. See the "screenshot":

…/gitconfig (master) [*%] at 10:25:17 $ git st
## master...origin/master
 M README.md
 M gitconfig
?? .README.md.swp
…/gitconfig (master) [*%] at 10:25:19 $

...on the prompt you can see:

• we're on the master branch
• * stands for Changes not staged for commit
• % stands for Untracked files
• and the time :)

Kinda similar (but way poorer, bash-only) effect can be achieved using the bashrc.gitprompt in this repo:

• Include the git prompt config in your ~/.bashrc:

$ echo "source ~/github/porn/gitconfig/bashrc.gitprompt" >> ~/.bashrc

On next login your bash prompt will show nice symbols that represent the state of your current working tree. If you want to enable git prompt without logging out and in, just source the file:

$ source ~/github/porn/gitconfig/bashrc.gitprompt