An awesome .gitconfig

  [user]
  email = MY_EMAIL_HERE
  name = FIRST LAST
  signingkey = A_SIGNING_KEY_GOES_HERE

  [commit]
  gpgsign = true

  [diff]
  tool = vimdiff

  [merge]
  tool = vimdiff
  conflictstyle = diff3

  [alias]
  forward = !sh -c \"git switch --detach $(git rev-list --first-parent --topo-order HEAD.."$1" | tail -1)\"  
  

The alias will let me write “git forward master” and we’ll travel down the DAG toward master, always choosing the first-parent when encountering branches.