Does anyone know how to get Unity working with GitHub, without having to deal with the annoying meta files? I have to “discard changes” on a bunch of meta files everytime I try to pull. Any help is appreciated 
Have you tried the GitHub for Unity plugin? It’s in beta, but it worked really well for a small group project I in was earlier this year. If I recall correctly, it automatically set up serialization and meta files properly, and everything just worked for the group.