What I use in my ~/.gitconfig

.gitconfig

[user]
  name = Your Name
  email = username@example.com
[color]
  branch = auto
  diff = auto
  status = auto
[color "branch"]
  current = yellow reverse
  local = yellow
  remote = green
[color "diff"]
  meta = yellow bold
  frag = magenta bold
  old = red bold
  new = green bold
[color "status"]
  added = yellow
  changed = green
  untracked = cyan
[core]
  editor = mate -w
  filemode = false
[url "git@github.com:"]
  insteadOf = "gh:"
  pushInsteadOf = "github:"
  pushInsteadOf = "git://github.com/"
[url "git://github.com/"]
  insteadOf = "github:"
[url "git@gist.github.com:"]
  insteadOf = "gst:"
  pushInsteadOf = "gist:"
  pushInsteadOf = "git://gist.github.com/"
[url "git://gist.github.com/"]
  insteadOf = "gist:"
[url "git@heroku.com:"]
  insteadOf = "heroku:"
[github]
  user = username
  token = your_token_goes_here