--- title: How Core Git Developers Configure Git | daily.dev description: A curated guide to Git configuration settings that most developers don't know about, sourced partly from a Git mailing list 'Spring Cleaning' experiment where... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-core-git-developers-configure-git-iyzz5ddek twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Core Git Developers Configure Git | daily.dev og:description: A curated guide to Git configuration settings that most developers don't know about, sourced partly from a Git mailing list 'Spring Cleaning' experiment where... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-core-git-developers-configure-git-iyzz5ddek og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iyZz5ddEK.png og:image:alt: How Core Git Developers Configure Git og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Core Git Developers Configure Git **[GitButler Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/gitbutler)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A curated guide to Git configuration settings that most developers don't know about, sourced partly from a Git mailing list 'Spring Cleaning' experiment where core Git developers identified settings they couldn't work without. Covers settings for better branch/tag listing (branch.sort, column.ui, tag.sort), improved diffs (histogram algorithm, colorMoved, mnemonicPrefix), smarter push/fetch behavior (autoSetupRemote, followTags, prune), and quality-of-life improvements like rerere, commit.verbose, rebase.autoSquash, and merge.conflictstyle zdiff3. Settings are grouped into 'clearly better defaults', 'why not', and 'matter of taste' categories with copy-pasteable config snippets. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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