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Repository for Strategic Data Project 2017 Convening Session Proposal on Collaborative Coding Practices
https://wbuchanan.github.io/sdpConvening2017
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Configuration Information #7

Closed wbuchanan closed 7 years ago

wbuchanan commented 7 years ago

Created new feature branch with a markdown file that can be folded into the repository Wiki or some other resource that would then be a quick reference to some configuration options that users may want to consider when setting up Git on their machines.

@jsonbecker, @nathant23, & @daphnejenkins,

Any thoughts about other configuration options/information that we could put together to streamline the installation process and make it easier for end users to get Git stood up?

wbuchanan commented 7 years ago

@jsonbecker

Should we add some additional configuration parameters to the info you've provided like: 

# Sets your name so we know who committed the changes
git config --global user.name "FirstName LastName"

# Sets your email address 
git config --global user.email yourEmailAddress@your-domain.com

# If you're working in a predominantly Windows shop use the line below
git config --global core.autocrlf true

# If you work with a machine running any non-Windows OS use this line
git config --global core.autocrlf input

# If your code will only ever run on Windows machines and is designed only from Windows machines use:
git config --global core.autocrlf false

Not sure if there are any other configuration settings you'd suggest.

wbuchanan commented 7 years ago

Some of this is covered in installation screenshots from Windows. We should still provide a bit more explicit information about where to find the config file/what the --global flag implies in the command line.