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Many thanks to Tim for his article Installing git on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It’s a great starting point for git use on OS X Leopard.

In addition to his configuration and aliases, I have a couple of my own that I have added. Here’s an excerpt from my .profile:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "your email"
git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.interactive auto
git config --global alias.st status
git config --global alias.ci commit
git config --global alias.co checkout
git config --global alias.br branch
git config --global merge.tool opendiff
git config --global merge.summary true
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore

alias g='git'
alias gst='g st'
alias gci='g ci'
alias gdiff='g diff'
alias gadd='g add'

I don’t have anything against the space bar, but it does seem to be easier with those aliases. See Tim’s article for some additional comments on some of the git configuration.

The color configuration commands will also add quite a bit of richness to your git experience.