Trying to understand the options for signing Git commits? Explore the options available for cryptographic signatures and their tradeoffs in today’s post.

There are many ways to automate the process of marking directories as “safe” to avoid the “detected dubious ownership in repository” message. Last week, I discussed how to modify the devcontainer.json. This week, let’s see an alternative using Dotfiles.

It’s always best to run containers with the least privileges required. Unfortunately, that may result in Git operations that fail with the message “detected dubious ownership in repository”. The trick to eliminating this is quite simple …

Continuing our examination of ways of influencing Git’s behaviors and settings, today we look at how to utilize a global .gitattributes and how to specify file handling without modifying the repository’s .gitattributes file.

You’ve seen the file, but do you understand it’s purpose? Git has the ability to customize how it handles the files you edit. Today we explore how that works.