A few configuration examples
There are configuration targets in the core Git system. In this section, we'll take a closer look at a few of them that might be useful in your daily work.
We'll look at the following three different configuration areas:
- Rebase and merge setup
- Expiry of objects
- Autocorrect
Getting ready
In this exercise, we'll just set a few configurations. We'll use the data model repository from Chapter 1, Navigating Git:
$ cd data-model
How to do it...
Let's take a closer look at the previously mentioned configuration areas.
Rebase and merge setup
By default, when performing git pull, a merge commit will be created if the history of the local branch has diverged from the remote one. However, to avoid all these merge commits, a repository ...
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