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git

Stash​

  • Untracked files: git stash -u

LFS​

Needs LFS plugin installed git lfs install.

  • Fetch all lfs files git lfs fetch --all.

Profiles​

If you regularly use multiple remote git servers for multiple repositories setting up the configuration for each new repository can be a pain (specifically, the user.email and user.name).

If you haven't set these before a git commit you'll probably be prompted with the following

$ git commit -m "Add readme"
Author identity unknown

*** Please tell me who you are.

Run

  git config --global user.email "you@example.com"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"

to set your account's default identity.
Omit --global to set the identity only in this repository.

You can set these once for each remote using git profile configurations in your use git configuration.

Under /home/<user>/.gitconfig add an [includeIf ...] for each remote. For example

[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:git@git.private.uk:*/**"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig_profiles/private-gitlab.inc

[includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:git@github.com:*/**"]
  path = ~/.gitconfig_profiles/github.inc

You can then specify normal configuration values for each profile.inc file you include.

[user]
email=<user>@users.noreply.github.com
name=<username>