Nothing fancy here, just the fast and dirty bootstrap steps to have a pleasant git environment.
My git aliases
git config --global alias.ci commit
git config --global alias.st status
git config --global alias.co checkout
git config --global alias.br branch
git config --global alias.lg log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit
My user setup
git config --global user.name "Romain Dorgueil"
git config --global user.email "romain@dorgueil.net"
Colors (not required after git 1.8.4)
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.interactive auto
git config --global color.status auto
or
git config --global color.ui true