If you're developing in Eclipse, like I am for Android, and you use version control you're going to want to ignore the default project files that are generated by Eclipse. You should update your .gitignore with the following list:
.project .classpath .settings/ bin/
It's not always clear how to delete a remote branch in git, but it's just the following command:
git push REMOTENAME :BRANCHNAME
The syntax is a little wonky if you're not used to the advanced push syntax. If you look at the details of what's happening you're telling git to push nothing into the remote branch.
git push REMOTENAME LOCALBRANCHNAME:REMOTEBRANCHNAME
http://blog.bitfluent.com/post/27983389/git-utilities-you-cant-live-without
You'll need git-completion.bash working, but put the following line into your .bashrc or .bash_profile to display the current branch in your terminal.
PS1='$(__git_ps1 "(%s)")$ '
Which you can combine with whatever you already have setup. It can be something similar to one of the following:
PS1='\h:\W$(__git_ps1 "(%s)") \u\$ '
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w\ $(__git_ps1 "(%s)")$ '
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\] $(__git_ps1 "(%s)")$ '
Here's how you can set the default editor when commenting on git commits.
From man git-commit:
Environment And Configuration Variables The editor used to edit the commit log message will be chosen from the GIT_EDITOR environment variable, the core.editor configuration variable, the VISUAL environment variable, or the EDITOR environment variable (in that order).
examples:
git config --global core.editor "vim" export VISUAL=vim export EDITOR=vim
The EDITOR has the advantage that a number of other programs use this setting.
