This is my cheat sheet for the settings I use for my git-repositories (list to be edited continuously):
Global settings:
git config –global user.name Martin Carpella
git config –global user.email xxx@yyy.invalid
git config –global color.ui auto
Per-repository settings:
git config core.autocrlf true
git config core.safecrlf true
Per-repository .gitignore for Visual Studio/C# projects:
bin
obj
*.user
*.suo
Thumbs.db