Apply some recommendations from git dx book

home/dot_config/git/config

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+[color]
+    ui = true
+    branch = always
+    status = always
+    interactive = always
+    diff = true
+[color "branch"]
+    current = yellow reverse
+    local = yellow
+    remote = green
+[color "diff"]
+    frag = magenta bold
+    meta = yellow bold
+    new = green bold
+    old = red bold
+    whitespace = red reverse
+[color "status"]
+    added = yellow
+    changed = green
+    untracked = cyan
+[status]
+    short = true
+    branch = true
+[user]
+    name = Maximilian Friedersdorff
+    email = "max@gwairfelin.com"
+[includeIf "gitdir:~/src/esl/"]
+    path = ~/.config/git/config-esl
+[diff]
+    tool = vimdiff
+[merge]
+    tool = vimdiff
+    ff = true
+[push]
+    default = simple
+[alias]
+    lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %G? %ad %s %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset %C(yellow)%d%Creset' --date=short
+    hist = log --graph --full-history --all --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset %G? %ad %s %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset %C(yellow)%d%Creset' --date=short
+    struct = log --graph --full-history --all --pretty=format:'%ad %s %Creset %C(yellow)%d%Creset' --date=short --simplify-by-decoration
+    co = checkout
+    c = commit
+    s = status
+    d = diff
+    commit = commit -S
+    vt = tag -v
+    tag = tag -s
+    t = tag -s
+    alias = "!req=$'\\033[0;31m=\\033[0m'; git config --get-regexp ^alias\\. | sed -e s/^alias\\.// -e \"s/\\ /\t$req\\ /\""
+    pa = !git remote | xargs -L1 git push --all
+    fi = flow finish --push --no-ff
+    changes = "!git log $(git tag -l --sort=taggerdate | tail -n 1)..HEAD --pretty=format:'* %s' --no-merges --reverse"
+[pull]
+    rebase = false
+[sendemail]
+    smtpserver = mail.friedersdorff.com
+    smtpuser = max
+    smtpencryption = tls
+    smtpserverport = 587
+[mergetool "vimdiff"]
+    cmd = nvim -d $LOCAL $BASE $REMOTE $MERGED -c "$wincmd w" -c "wincmd J"
+[help]
+    autoCorrect = immediate

home/dot_config/git/config-esl

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+[user]
+    email = "maximilian.friedersdorff@envsys.co.uk"

home/dot_config/git/ignore

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+## VIM specific patterns
+# Swap
+[._]*.s[a-v][a-z]
+!*.svg  # comment out if you don't need vector files
+[._]*.sw[a-p]
+[._]s[a-rt-v][a-z]
+[._]ss[a-gi-z]
+[._]sw[a-p]
+
+# Session
+Session.vim
+Sessionx.vim
+
+# Temporary
+.netrwhist
+*~
+# Auto-generated tag files
+tags
+# Persistent undo
+[._]*.un~
+
+
+## Linux specific patterns
+*~
+
+# temporary files which can be created if a process still has a handle open of a deleted file
+.fuse_hidden*
+
+# KDE directory preferences
+.directory
+
+# Linux trash folder which might appear on any partition or disk
+.Trash-*
+
+# .nfs files are created when an open file is removed but is still being accessed
+.nfs*
+
+
+## Python specific settings
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+dist/
+*.egg
+*.egg-info/
+
+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]