Git Config?

[bbatsche]

Git likes to complain a lot about names & emails being missing, and default push/merge scheme and blah blah BLAH!

Maybe add those entries to the ~/.gitconfig by default so it will finally shut up
Add a default ~/.gitignore that ignores .DS_Store files once and for all.
Some sensible extra aliases/features:

[alias]
    co = checkout
    ci = commit
    st = status
    br = branch
    hist = log --pretty=format:'%h %ad | %s%d [%an]' --graph --date=short