git-utils

Useful scripts for git

git-w.py

A tool to normalize line endings to reduce diffs. It may normalize line endings to either '\n' (unix) or '\r\n' (windows) depending on which one best reduces the diff size.

init_submodules.py

init_submodules is used to initialize submodules after cloning several repositories with shared submodules. It initializes the common submodule with git submodule update's --reference option, to avoid downloading each submodule several times as well as sharing their objects to save disk space.

Useful links/tools

• git-mediate: Tool for resolving merge conflicts correctly and easily

Useful git configurations

These configuration flags are not default in git but probably should be:

• git config --global log.decorate auto - display branch names in git log.