Git installation

Git local repository varables

This setup should provide a good framework

Git setup commit information

Write in terminal

git config --add user.name "Your Name"
git config --add user.email you@example.com
git config --add core.autocrlf true

It is recommended to install EditPad Lite, and use this as an commit message editor, so you won't have line ending mis-match in windows. Just save after writing the commmit message, and exit the program. The message is committed.

#Windows
git config --add core.editor "EditPadLite7"
#Linux
git config --add core.editor "nano"
git config --add core.editor "gedit"
git config --add core.editor "vim"

#Optional, if you want to synchronize to your github account
git config --add github.user GIT_USER_NAME

relax_commit.txt

Write in "relax_commit.txt" from Format_commit_logs.

git config --add commit.template "relax_commit.txt"
git add relax_commit.txt
git commit

commit message

Added default relax commit message.

# To see the commit message
git log 
# If you would like to replace the last commit info
git commit --amend

.gitignore

Consider placing a file .gitignore in the root of the repository.
It could contain this information

# Compiled source #
###################
*.com
*.class
*.dll
*.exe
*.o
*.so
*.pyc
*.py.swp

# Packages #
############
# it's better to unpack these files and commit the raw source
# git has its own built in compression methods
*.7z
*.dmg
*.gz
*.iso
*.rar
*.tar
*.zip

# Logs and databases #
######################
*.log
*.sql
*.sqlite

# OS generated files #
######################
.DS_Store*
ehthumbs.db
Thumbs.db
*~

Check in the file

git add .gitignore
git commit

commit message

Added default git ignores

# To see the commit message
git log 
# If you would like to replace the last commit info
git commit --amend

.gitattributes

We want to always use linux line endings. Write in ".gitattributes"

# Declare files that will always have LF line endings on checkout.
#*.py text eol=lf
text eol=lf

git add .gitattributes
git commit

commit message

Added gitattributes to have LF line endings on checkout.

# To see the commit message
git log 
# If you would like to replace the last commit info
git commit --amend

Re-normalizing the repository

Remove everything from the index.

git rm --cached -r .

Write both the index and working directory from git's database

git reset --hard

Prepare to make a commit by staging all the files that will get normalized.
This is your chance to inspect which files were never normalized. You should get lots of messages like: "warning: CRLF will be replaced by LF in file.

git add relax_commit.txt
git add .gitignore
git add .gitattributes

Then Commit

git commit -m "Normalized line endings"