13. Manage Files with Git
Git provides a rich collection of features, but the core set of features are the ones that you are going to use the most often. This includes commands that enable you to stage files and commit files to the local repository, as well as create branches. This chapter focuses on these topics as well as a few related ones.
Basic Configuration
You might want to perform several configuration operations. For example, you can set your default editor by executing the following command:
ocs@ubuntu:~/ocs$ git config --global core.editor vi
You can view current configuration settings by executing the git config --list command:
ocs@ubuntu:~/ocs$ git config --list
user.name=Bo Rothwell
user.email=bo@onecoursesource.com core.editor=editor_name ...
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