Jack Wallen shows how to use the .gitconfig file for global git configurations and a more efficient developer setup.

If you add or edit files within GitHub, you can then do an Update from with Nautilus to pull them down. And that’s the gist of integrating Nautilus with Git.

A checkbox also appears next to each file that has changed, and if checked, that change will occur with the next commit to the repository. The checkbox essentially simulates a call to the git init ...