Tips & Tricks with Git

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I'll be updating this post with new tips and tricks about git as my personal list of useful commands and configurations.

Rename file

 git mv --force myfile MyFile

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Setup git local/global config

git config --global user.name 'myusername'  
git config --global user.email 'email@myemail.com'  
git config --global core.editor 'nano'

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Add an empty directory to a Git repository

# Ignore everything in this directory
*
# Except this file
!.gitignore

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Ignore everything except a few files

# Ignore everything
*

# But not these files...
!.gitignore
!myfile.md

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