Popular git config options

158 · Julia Evans · Feb. 16, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
Hello! I always wish that command line tools came with data about how popular their various options are, like: “basically nobody uses this one” “80% of people use this, probably take a look” “this one has 6 possible values but people only really use these 2 in practice” So I asked about people’s favourite git config options on Mastodon: what are your favourite git config options to set? Right now I only really have git config push.autosetupremote true and git config init.defaultBranch main se...