4 The Git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect
5 the Git commands' behavior. The `.git/config` file in each repository
6 is used to store the configuration for that repository, and
7 `$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as
8 fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
9 can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.
11 The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing
12 and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein
13 the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last
14 dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last
15 dot. The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric
16 characters and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character. Some
17 variables may appear multiple times.
22 The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly
23 ignored. The '#' and ';' characters begin comments to the end of line,
24 blank lines are ignored.
26 The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with
27 the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next
28 section begins. Section names are not case sensitive. Only alphanumeric
29 characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. Each variable
30 must belong to some section, which means that there must be a section
31 header before the first setting of a variable.
33 Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a subsection
34 put its name in double quotes, separated by space from the section name,
35 in the section header, like in the example below:
38 [section "subsection"]
42 Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
43 newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
44 respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple
45 lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
46 You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
49 There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this
50 syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also
51 compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
52 restrictions as section names.
54 All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
55 header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form
56 'name = value'. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line
57 is taken as 'name' and the variable is recognized as boolean "true".
58 The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
59 and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character. There can be more
60 than one value for a given variable; we say then that the variable is
63 Leading and trailing whitespace in a variable value is discarded.
64 Internal whitespace within a variable value is retained verbatim.
66 The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either
67 a string, an integer, or a boolean. Boolean values may be given as yes/no,
68 1/0, true/false or on/off. Case is not significant in boolean values, when
69 converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type specifier;
70 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false".
72 String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes.
73 You need to enclose variable values in double quotes if you want to
74 preserve leading or trailing whitespace, or if the variable value contains
75 comment characters (i.e. it contains '#' or ';').
76 Double quote `"` and backslash `\` characters in variable values must
77 be escaped: use `\"` for `"` and `\\` for `\`.
79 The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized:
80 `\n` for newline character (NL), `\t` for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB)
81 and `\b` for backspace (BS). No other char escape sequence, nor octal
82 char sequences are valid.
84 Variable values ending in a `\` are continued on the next line in the
85 customary UNIX fashion.
87 Some variables may require a special value format.
92 You can include one config file from another by setting the special
93 `include.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. The
94 included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been
95 found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the
96 `include.path` variable is a relative path, the path is considered to be
97 relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was
98 found. The value of `include.path` is subject to tilde expansion: `~/`
99 is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified
100 user's home directory. See below for examples.
107 ; Don't trust file modes
112 external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
117 merge = refs/heads/devel
121 gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
122 gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
125 path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
126 path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file
127 path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your $HOME directory
132 Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete.
133 For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description
134 in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core
135 porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation.
138 These variables control various optional help messages designed to
139 aid new users. All 'advice.*' variables default to 'true', and you
140 can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to 'false':
144 Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable
145 'pushNonFFCurrent', 'pushNonFFDefault',
146 'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists',
147 'pushFetchFirst', and 'pushNeedsForce'
150 Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] fails due to a
151 non-fast-forward update to the current branch.
153 Advice to set 'push.default' to 'upstream' or 'current'
154 when you ran linkgit:git-push[1] and pushed 'matching
155 refs' by default (i.e. you did not provide an explicit
156 refspec, and no 'push.default' configuration was set)
157 and it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
159 Advice shown when you ran linkgit:git-push[1] and pushed
160 'matching refs' explicitly (i.e. you used ':', or
161 specified a refspec that isn't your current branch) and
162 it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
164 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
165 does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.)
167 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
168 tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an
169 object we do not have.
171 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
172 tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an
173 object that is not a committish, or make the remote
174 ref point at an object that is not a committish.
176 Show directions on how to proceed from the current
177 state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in
178 the template shown when writing commit messages in
179 linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown
180 by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch.
182 Advise to consider using the `-u` option to linkgit:git-status[1]
183 when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked
186 Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
187 merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
189 Advice shown by various commands when conflicts
190 prevent the operation from being performed.
192 Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
193 your information is guessed from the system username and
196 Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to
197 move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
198 a local branch after the fact.
200 Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
201 linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it.
205 If false, the executable bit differences between the index and
206 the working tree are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
207 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
209 The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
210 will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate when the
211 repository is created.
213 core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks::
214 This option is only used by Cygwin implementation of Git. If false,
215 the Cygwin stat() and lstat() functions are used. This may be useful
216 if your repository consists of a few separate directories joined in
217 one hierarchy using Cygwin mount. If true, Git uses native Win32 API
218 whenever it is possible and falls back to Cygwin functions only to
219 handle symbol links. The native mode is more than twice faster than
220 normal Cygwin l/stat() functions. True by default, unless core.filemode
221 is true, in which case ignoreCygwinFSTricks is ignored as Cygwin's
222 POSIX emulation is required to support core.filemode.
225 If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable
226 Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive,
227 like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds
228 "makefile" when Git expects "Makefile", Git will assume
229 it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as
232 The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
233 will probe and set core.ignorecase true if appropriate when the repository
236 core.precomposeunicode::
237 This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git.
238 When core.precomposeunicode=true, Git reverts the unicode decomposition
239 of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository
240 between Mac OS and Linux or Windows.
241 (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7).
242 When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git,
243 which is backward compatible with older versions of Git.
246 If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
247 working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
248 is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system
249 crawlers and some backup systems).
250 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
253 Determines which stat fields to match between the index
254 and work tree. The user can set this to 'default' or
255 'minimal'. Default (or explicitly 'default'), is to check
256 all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime.
259 The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files',
260 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote
261 "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
262 pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the
263 same way strings in C source code are quoted. If this
264 variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are
265 not quoted but output as verbatim. Note that double
266 quote, backslash and control characters are always
267 quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this
271 Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
272 files that have the `text` property set. Alternatives are
273 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's native
274 line ending. The default value is `native`. See
275 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line
279 If true, makes Git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when
280 end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a command
281 modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly.
282 For example, committing a file followed by checking out the
283 same file should yield the original file in the work tree. If
284 this is not the case for the current setting of
285 `core.autocrlf`, Git will reject the file. The variable can
286 be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an
287 irreversible conversion but continue the operation.
289 CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
290 When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to
291 CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and
292 CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by Git. For text
293 files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
294 such that we have only LF line endings in the repository.
295 But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the
296 conversion can corrupt data.
298 If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by
299 setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right
300 after committing you still have the original file in your work
301 tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell
302 Git that this file is binary and Git will handle the file
305 Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with
306 mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary
307 files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed
308 in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing
309 to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files
310 converting CRLFs corrupts data.
312 Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a
313 file identical to the original file for a different setting of
314 `core.eol` and `core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For
315 example, a text file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.eol=lf`
316 and could later be checked out with `core.eol=crlf`, in which case the
317 resulting file would contain `CRLF`, although the original file
318 contained `LF`. However, in both work trees the line endings would be
319 consistent, that is either all `LF` or all `CRLF`, but never mixed. A
320 file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf`
324 Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting
325 the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files except that text
326 files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain
327 `CRLF` in the repository will not be touched. Use this
328 setting if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
329 working directory even though the repository does not have
330 normalized line endings. This variable can be set to 'input',
331 in which case no output conversion is performed.
334 If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
335 contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and
336 linkgit:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular
337 file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
340 The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
341 will probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the repository
345 A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead
346 of establishing direct connection to the remote server when
347 using the Git protocol for fetching. If the variable value is
348 in the "COMMAND for DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only
349 on hostnames ending with the specified domain string. This variable
350 may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order;
351 the first match wins.
353 Can be overridden by the 'GIT_PROXY_COMMAND' environment variable
354 (which always applies universally, without the special "for"
357 The special string `none` can be used as the proxy command to
358 specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern.
359 This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from
360 proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains.
363 If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index
364 will mark the updated paths with the "assume unchanged" bit in the
365 index. These marked files are then assumed to stay unchanged in the
366 working tree, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not
367 detect the file changes by lstat() calls. This is useful on systems
368 where those are very slow, such as Microsoft Windows.
369 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
372 core.preferSymlinkRefs::
373 Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD
374 and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links.
375 This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that
376 expect HEAD to be a symbolic link.
379 If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no
380 working directory associated with it. If this is the case a
381 number of commands that require a working directory will be
382 disabled, such as linkgit:git-add[1] or linkgit:git-merge[1].
384 This setting is automatically guessed by linkgit:git-clone[1] or
385 linkgit:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a
386 repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare =
387 false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
391 Set the path to the root of the working tree.
392 This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
393 variable and the '--work-tree' command line option.
394 The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to
395 the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
396 or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered.
397 If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is specified but none of
398 --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified,
399 the current working directory is regarded as the top level
400 of your working tree.
402 Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration
403 file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory and its value differs
404 from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has
405 core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a
406 misconfiguration. Running Git commands in the "/path/to" directory will
407 still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause
408 confusion unless you know what you are doing (e.g. you are creating a
409 read-only snapshot of the same index to a location different from the
410 repository's usual working tree).
412 core.logAllRefUpdates::
413 Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
414 "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old
415 SHA1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but
416 only when the file exists. If this configuration
417 variable is set to true, missing "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>"
418 file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under
419 refs/heads/), remote refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/),
420 note refs (i.e. under refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD.
422 This information can be used to determine what commit
423 was the tip of a branch "2 days ago".
425 This value is true by default in a repository that has
426 a working directory associated with it, and false by
427 default in a bare repository.
429 core.repositoryFormatVersion::
430 Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout
433 core.sharedRepository::
434 When 'group' (or 'true'), the repository is made shareable between
435 several users in a group (making sure all the files and objects are
436 group-writable). When 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'), the
437 repository will be readable by all users, additionally to being
438 group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), Git will use permissions
439 reported by umask(2). When '0xxx', where '0xxx' is an octal number,
440 files in the repository will have this mode value. '0xxx' will override
441 user's umask value (whereas the other options will only override
442 requested parts of the user's umask value). Examples: '0660' will make
443 the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to
444 others (equivalent to 'group' unless umask is e.g. '0022'). '0640' is a
445 repository that is group-readable but not group-writable.
446 See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default.
448 core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
449 If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
450 and might match multiple refs in the repository. True by default.
453 An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
454 -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
455 and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.
456 If set, this provides a default to other compression variables,
457 such as 'core.loosecompression' and 'pack.compression'.
459 core.loosecompression::
460 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
461 are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
462 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
463 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
464 not set, defaults to 1 (best speed).
466 core.packedGitWindowSize::
467 Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a
468 single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow
469 your system to process a smaller number of large pack files
470 more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect
471 performance due to increased calls to the operating system's
472 memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing
473 a large number of large pack files.
475 Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32
476 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should
477 be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do
478 not need to adjust this value.
480 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
482 core.packedGitLimit::
483 Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory
484 from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many
485 bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing
486 regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process.
488 Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms.
489 This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on
490 the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
492 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
494 core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
495 Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
496 that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the
497 entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
498 to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
499 objects multiple times.
501 Default is 16 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
502 for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects.
503 You probably do not need to adjust this value.
505 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
507 core.bigFileThreshold::
508 Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without
509 attempting delta compression. Storing large files without
510 delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the
511 slight expense of increased disk usage.
513 Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
514 for most projects as source code and other text files can still
515 be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
517 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
520 In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
521 '.git/info/exclude', Git looks into this file for patterns
522 of files which are not meant to be tracked. "`~/`" is expanded
523 to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the specified user's
524 home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore.
525 If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore
526 is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
529 Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively
530 ask for a password can be told to use an external program given
531 via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_ASKPASS'
532 environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the
533 'SSH_ASKPASS' environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
534 prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
535 command line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
537 core.attributesfile::
538 In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
539 '.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes
540 (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
541 way as for `core.excludesfile`. Its default value is
542 $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not
543 set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
546 Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
547 messages by launching an editor uses the value of this
548 variable when it is set, and the environment variable
549 `GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1].
552 Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit
553 messages consider a line that begins with this character
554 commented, and removes them after the editor returns
558 Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase instruction file.
559 The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used.
560 It can be overridden by the `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` environment variable.
561 When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead.
564 The command that Git will use to paginate output. Can
565 be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment
566 variable. Note that Git sets the `LESS` environment
567 variable to `FRSX` if it is unset when it runs the
568 pager. One can change these settings by setting the
569 `LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately,
570 these settings can be overridden on a project or
571 global basis by setting the `core.pager` option.
572 Setting `core.pager` has no effect on the `LESS`
573 environment variable behaviour above, so if you want
574 to override Git's default settings this way, you need
575 to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option
576 in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager`
577 to `less -+S`. This will be passed to the shell by
578 Git, which will translate the final command to
579 `LESS=FRSX less -+S`.
582 A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
583 notice. 'git diff' will use `color.diff.whitespace` to
584 highlight them, and 'git apply --whitespace=error' will
585 consider them as errors. You can prefix `-` to disable
586 any of them (e.g. `-trailing-space`):
588 * `blank-at-eol` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
589 as an error (enabled by default).
590 * `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
591 before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
592 error (enabled by default).
593 * `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with space
594 characters instead of the equivalent tabs as an error (not enabled by
596 * `tab-in-indent` treats a tab character in the initial indent part of
597 the line as an error (not enabled by default).
598 * `blank-at-eof` treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error
599 (enabled by default).
600 * `trailing-space` is a short-hand to cover both `blank-at-eol` and
602 * `cr-at-eol` treats a carriage-return at the end of line as
603 part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space`
604 does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
605 is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
606 * `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this
607 is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when Git fixes `tab-in-indent`
608 errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63.
610 core.fsyncobjectfiles::
611 This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
613 This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders
614 data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use
615 journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata
616 and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
619 Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff'
621 This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially
622 on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus
623 relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', Git will do the
624 index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing
628 You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by
629 a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation
630 will not overwrite existing objects.
632 On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable.
633 Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the
634 check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten.
637 When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in
638 the given ref. The ref must be fully qualified. If the given
639 ref does not exist, it is not an error but means that no
640 notes should be printed.
642 This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by
643 the 'GIT_NOTES_REF' environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1].
645 core.sparseCheckout::
646 Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
647 linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
650 Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If unspecified,
651 many commands abbreviate to 7 hexdigits, which may not be enough
652 for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long
657 Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
658 added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors'
659 option of linkgit:git-add[1]. Older versions of Git accept only
660 `add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming
661 convention for configuration variables. Newer versions of Git
662 honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well.
665 Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
666 after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
667 "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid
668 confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that
669 hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by
670 spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported.
671 quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them.
673 If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
674 it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining
675 "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation
676 "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command
677 "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be
678 executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
679 not necessarily be the current directory.
680 'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
681 from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
684 If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format
685 with parameter '--keep-cr'. In this case git-mailsplit will
686 not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden
687 by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line.
688 See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1].
690 apply.ignorewhitespace::
691 When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in
692 whitespace, in the same way as the '--ignore-space-change'
694 When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git apply' to
695 respect all whitespace differences.
696 See linkgit:git-apply[1].
699 Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
700 as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].
702 branch.autosetupmerge::
703 Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches
704 so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the
705 starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set,
706 this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
707 and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no
708 automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the
709 starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` --
710 automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a
711 local branch or remote-tracking
712 branch. This option defaults to true.
714 branch.autosetuprebase::
715 When a new branch is created with 'git branch' or 'git checkout'
716 that tracks another branch, this variable tells Git to set
717 up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase").
718 When `never`, rebase is never automatically set to true.
719 When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
720 other local branches.
721 When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
722 remote-tracking branches.
723 When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking
725 See "branch.autosetupmerge" for details on how to set up a
726 branch to track another branch.
727 This option defaults to never.
729 branch.<name>.remote::
730 When on branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' and 'git push'
731 which remote to fetch from/push to. The remote to push to
732 may be overridden with `remote.pushdefault` (for all branches).
733 The remote to push to, for the current branch, may be further
734 overridden by `branch.<name>.pushremote`. If no remote is
735 configured, or if you are not on any branch, it defaults to
736 `origin` for fetching and `remote.pushdefault` for pushing.
738 branch.<name>.pushremote::
739 When on branch <name>, it overrides `branch.<name>.remote` for
740 pushing. It also overrides `remote.pushdefault` for pushing
741 from branch <name>. When you pull from one place (e.g. your
742 upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own publishing
743 repository), you would want to set `remote.pushdefault` to
744 specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this
745 option to override it for a specific branch.
747 branch.<name>.merge::
748 Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch
749 for the given branch. It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull'/'git rebase' which
750 branch to merge and can also affect 'git push' (see push.default).
751 When in branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' the default
752 refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is
753 handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a
754 ref which is fetched from the remote given by
755 "branch.<name>.remote".
756 The merge information is used by 'git pull' (which at first calls
757 'git fetch') to lookup the default branch for merging. Without
758 this option, 'git pull' defaults to merge the first refspec fetched.
759 Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge.
760 If you wish to setup 'git pull' so that it merges into <name> from
761 another branch in the local repository, you can point
762 branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the special setting
763 `.` (a period) for branch.<name>.remote.
765 branch.<name>.mergeoptions::
766 Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
767 supported options are the same as those of linkgit:git-merge[1], but
768 option values containing whitespace characters are currently not
771 branch.<name>.rebase::
772 When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched branch,
773 instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when
774 "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non
775 branch-specific manner.
777 *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
778 it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
781 branch.<name>.description::
782 Branch description, can be edited with
783 `git branch --edit-description`. Branch description is
784 automatically added in the format-patch cover letter or
785 request-pull summary.
788 Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The
789 specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed
790 as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].)
792 browser.<tool>.path::
793 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
794 browse HTML help (see '-w' option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a
795 working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]).
798 A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f
799 or -n. Defaults to true.
802 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
803 linkgit:git-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
804 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
805 only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
807 color.branch.<slot>::
808 Use customized color for branch coloration. `<slot>` is one of
809 `current` (the current branch), `local` (a local branch),
810 `remote` (a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/), `plain` (other
813 The value for these configuration variables is a list of colors (at most
814 two) and attributes (at most one), separated by spaces. The colors
815 accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`,
816 `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`; the attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`,
817 `blink` and `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the
818 second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any,
822 Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches.
823 If this is set to `always`, linkgit:git-diff[1],
824 linkgit:git-log[1], and linkgit:git-show[1] will use color
825 for all patches. If it is set to `true` or `auto`, those
826 commands will only use color when output is to the terminal.
829 This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] nor the
830 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the
831 command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option.
834 Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies
835 which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one
836 of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag`
837 (hunk header), 'func' (function in hunk header), `old` (removed lines),
838 `new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace`
839 (highlighting whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be
840 specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
842 color.decorate.<slot>::
843 Use customized color for 'git log --decorate' output. `<slot>` is one
844 of `branch`, `remoteBranch`, `tag`, `stash` or `HEAD` for local
845 branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively.
848 When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or
849 `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use color only
850 when the output is written to the terminal. Defaults to `false`.
853 Use customized color for grep colorization. `<slot>` specifies which
854 part of the line to use the specified color, and is one of
858 non-matching text in context lines (when using `-A`, `-B`, or `-C`)
860 filename prefix (when not using `-h`)
862 function name lines (when using `-p`)
864 line number prefix (when using `-n`)
868 non-matching text in selected lines
870 separators between fields on a line (`:`, `-`, and `=`)
871 and between hunks (`--`)
874 The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
877 When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts
878 and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive").
879 When false (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use
880 colors only when the output is to the terminal. Defaults to false.
882 color.interactive.<slot>::
883 Use customized color for 'git add --interactive'
884 output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for
885 four distinct types of normal output from interactive
886 commands. The values of these variables may be specified as
887 in color.branch.<slot>.
890 A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in
891 use (default is true).
894 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
895 linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
896 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
897 only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
900 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
901 linkgit:git-status[1]. May be set to `always`,
902 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
903 only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
905 color.status.<slot>::
906 Use customized color for status colorization. `<slot>` is
907 one of `header` (the header text of the status message),
908 `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed),
909 `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index),
910 `untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git),
911 `branch` (the current branch), or
912 `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
913 to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in
917 This variable determines the default value for variables such
918 as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color
919 per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn
920 configuration to set a default for the `--color` option. Set it
921 to `always` if you want all output not intended for machine
922 consumption to use color, to `true` or `auto` if you want such
923 output to use color when written to the terminal, or to `false` or
924 `never` if you prefer Git commands not to use color unless enabled
925 explicitly with some other configuration or the `--color` option.
928 Specify whether supported commands should output in columns.
929 This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces
934 always show in columns
936 never show in columns
938 show in columns if the output is to the terminal
940 fill columns before rows (default)
942 fill rows before columns
946 make unequal size columns to utilize more space
948 make equal size columns
951 This option defaults to 'never'.
954 Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns.
955 See `column.ui` for details.
958 Specify whether to output untracked files in `git status` in columns.
959 See `column.ui` for details.
962 Specify whether to output tag listing in `git tag` in columns.
963 See `column.ui` for details.
966 This setting overrides the default of the `--cleanup` option in
967 `git commit`. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for details. Changing the
968 default can be useful when you always want to keep lines that begin
969 with comment character `#` in your log message, in which case you
970 would do `git config commit.cleanup whitespace` (note that you will
971 have to remove the help lines that begin with `#` in the commit log
972 template yourself, if you do this).
975 A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the
976 commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit
977 message. Defaults to true.
980 Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
981 "`~/`" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the
982 specified user's home directory.
985 Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
986 password credential is needed; the helper may consult external
987 storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. See
988 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details.
990 credential.useHttpPath::
991 When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http
992 or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See
993 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information.
995 credential.username::
996 If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username
997 by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and
998 linkgit:gitcredentials[7].
1000 credential.<url>.*::
1001 Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to
1002 some credentials. For example "credential.https://example.com.username"
1003 would set the default username only for https connections to
1004 example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are
1007 include::diff-config.txt[]
1009 difftool.<tool>.path::
1010 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
1011 your tool is not in the PATH.
1013 difftool.<tool>.cmd::
1014 Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool.
1015 The specified command is evaluated in shell with the following
1016 variables available: 'LOCAL' is set to the name of the temporary
1017 file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and 'REMOTE'
1018 is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents
1019 of the diff post-image.
1022 Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
1024 fetch.recurseSubmodules::
1025 This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'.
1026 Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to
1027 unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not
1028 recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default
1029 value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule
1030 when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
1034 If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched
1035 objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a
1036 broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.
1037 Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
1041 If the number of objects fetched over the Git native
1042 transfer is below this
1043 limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
1044 files. However if the number of received objects equals or
1045 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as
1046 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the
1047 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster,
1048 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
1049 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
1052 Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for
1053 'format-patch'. The value can also be a double quoted string
1054 which will enable attachments as the default and set the
1055 value as the boundary. See the --attach option in
1056 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1059 A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch
1060 subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there
1061 is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all
1062 messages by setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered
1063 option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1066 Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted
1067 by mail. See linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1071 Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted
1072 by mail. See the --to and --cc options in
1073 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1075 format.subjectprefix::
1076 The default for format-patch is to output files with the '[PATCH]'
1077 subject prefix. Use this variable to change that prefix.
1080 The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing
1081 the Git version number. Use this variable to change that default.
1082 Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress
1083 signature generation.
1086 The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix
1087 `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
1088 include the dot if you want it).
1091 The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command,
1092 See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1],
1093 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1].
1096 The default threading style for 'git format-patch'. Can be
1097 a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading
1098 makes every mail a reply to the head of the series,
1099 where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the
1100 `--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order.
1101 `deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one.
1102 A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false
1103 value disables threading.
1106 A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of
1107 format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a
1108 patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have
1109 the rights to submit this work under the same open source license.
1110 Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion.
1112 format.coverLetter::
1113 A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when
1114 format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to
1115 generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch.
1117 filter.<driver>.clean::
1118 The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree
1119 file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
1122 filter.<driver>.smudge::
1123 The command which is used to convert the content of a blob
1124 object to a worktree file upon checkout. See
1125 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
1127 gc.aggressiveWindow::
1128 The window size parameter used in the delta compression
1129 algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
1133 When there are approximately more than this many loose
1134 objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them.
1135 Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a
1136 light-weight garbage collection from time to time. The
1137 default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables it.
1140 When there are more than this many packs that are not
1141 marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc
1142 --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The
1143 default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
1146 Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it
1147 unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb
1148 transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether
1149 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `notbare`
1150 to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a
1151 boolean value. The default is `true`.
1154 When 'git gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'.
1155 Override the grace period with this config variable. The value
1156 "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune
1157 unreachable objects immediately.
1160 gc.<pattern>.reflogexpire::
1161 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
1162 this time; defaults to 90 days. With "<pattern>" (e.g.
1163 "refs/stash") in the middle the setting applies only to
1164 the refs that match the <pattern>.
1166 gc.reflogexpireunreachable::
1167 gc.<ref>.reflogexpireunreachable::
1168 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
1169 this time and are not reachable from the current tip;
1170 defaults to 30 days. With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash")
1171 in the middle, the setting applies only to the refs that
1172 match the <pattern>.
1175 Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are
1176 kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
1177 The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
1179 gc.rerereunresolved::
1180 Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are
1181 kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
1182 The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
1184 gitcvs.commitmsgannotation::
1185 Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string
1186 to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator".
1189 Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository.
1190 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1193 Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs
1194 various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1196 gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
1197 If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion
1198 attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If
1199 the attributes force Git to treat a file as text,
1200 the '-k' mode will be left blank so CVS clients will
1201 treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file
1202 will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging
1203 the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow
1204 the file type to be determined, then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is
1205 used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
1208 This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve
1209 the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all
1210 unresolved files are sent to the client in
1211 mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them
1212 as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it
1213 otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess",
1214 then the contents of the file are examined to decide if
1215 it is binary, similar to 'core.autocrlf'.
1218 Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
1219 derived from the Git repository. The exact meaning depends on the
1220 used database driver, for SQLite (which is the default driver) this
1221 is a filename. Supports variable substitution (see
1222 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). May not contain semicolons (`;`).
1223 Default: '%Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite'
1226 Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver
1227 for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested
1228 with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with 'DBD::Pg', and
1229 reported *not* to work with 'DBD::mysql'. Experimental feature.
1230 May not contain double colons (`:`). Default: 'SQLite'.
1231 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1233 gitcvs.dbuser, gitcvs.dbpass::
1234 Database user and password. Only useful if setting 'gitcvs.dbdriver',
1235 since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords.
1236 'gitcvs.dbuser' supports variable substitution (see
1237 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).
1239 gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix::
1240 Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any
1241 database tables used, allowing a single database to be used
1242 for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see
1243 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic
1244 characters will be replaced with underscores.
1246 All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and
1247 'gitcvs.allbinary' can also be specified as
1248 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
1249 is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
1253 gitweb.description::
1256 See linkgit:gitweb[1] for description.
1264 gitweb.remote_heads::
1267 See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for description.
1270 If set to true, enable '-n' option by default.
1273 Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
1274 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp',
1275 '--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the
1276 value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
1278 grep.extendedRegexp::
1279 If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This
1280 option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value
1281 other than 'default'.
1284 Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when
1285 making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the
1286 same command line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached
1287 signature, "gpg --verify $file - <$signature" is run, and the
1288 program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with
1289 code 0, and to generate an ascii-armored detached signature, the
1290 standard input of "gpg -bsau $key" is fed with the contents to be
1291 signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its
1294 gui.commitmsgwidth::
1295 Defines how wide the commit message window is in the
1296 linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
1299 Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff
1300 made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
1303 Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
1304 file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
1305 It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute
1306 for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
1307 If this option is not set, the tools default to the
1310 gui.matchtrackingbranch::
1311 Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should
1312 default to tracking remote branches with matching names or
1313 not. Default: "false".
1315 gui.newbranchtemplate::
1316 Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the
1319 gui.pruneduringfetch::
1320 "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when
1321 performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
1324 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] should trust the file modification
1325 timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.
1327 gui.spellingdictionary::
1328 Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in
1329 the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned
1333 If true, 'git gui blame' uses `-C` instead of `-C -C` for original
1334 location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge
1335 repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.
1337 gui.copyblamethreshold::
1338 Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location
1339 detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the
1340 linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection.
1342 gui.blamehistoryctx::
1343 Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in
1344 linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History
1345 Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this
1346 variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.
1348 guitool.<name>.cmd::
1349 Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item
1350 of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is
1351 mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of
1352 the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of
1353 the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as
1354 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if
1355 the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty).
1357 guitool.<name>.needsfile::
1358 Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees
1359 that 'FILENAME' is not empty.
1361 guitool.<name>.noconsole::
1362 Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its
1365 guitool.<name>.norescan::
1366 Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool
1369 guitool.<name>.confirm::
1370 Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
1372 guitool.<name>.argprompt::
1373 Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool
1374 through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an
1375 argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect
1376 if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1',
1377 the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact
1378 value of the variable is used.
1380 guitool.<name>.revprompt::
1381 Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
1382 'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option
1383 is similar to 'argprompt', and can be used together with it.
1385 guitool.<name>.revunmerged::
1386 Show only unmerged branches in the 'revprompt' subdialog.
1387 This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not
1388 for things like checkout or reset.
1390 guitool.<name>.title::
1391 Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default
1394 guitool.<name>.prompt::
1395 Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of
1396 the dialog, before subsections for 'argprompt' and 'revprompt'.
1397 The default value includes the actual command.
1400 Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the
1401 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
1404 Override the default help format used by linkgit:git-help[1].
1405 Values 'man', 'info', 'web' and 'html' are supported. 'man' is
1406 the default. 'web' and 'html' are the same.
1409 Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after
1410 waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more
1411 than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing
1412 will be executed. If the value of this option is negative,
1413 the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the
1414 value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed.
1415 This is the default.
1418 Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File system paths
1419 and URLs are supported. HTML pages will be prefixed with this path when
1420 help is displayed in the 'web' format. This defaults to the documentation
1421 path of your Git installation.
1424 Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy',
1425 'https_proxy', and 'all_proxy' environment variables (see
1426 `curl(1)`). This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see
1430 File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used
1431 in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
1432 of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
1433 the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]).
1434 NOTE that the file specified with http.cookiefile is only used as
1435 input. No cookies will be stored in the file.
1438 Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
1439 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment
1443 File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
1444 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CERT' environment
1448 File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing
1449 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_KEY' environment
1452 http.sslCertPasswordProtected::
1453 Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise
1454 OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the
1455 certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the
1456 'GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED' environment variable.
1459 File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when
1460 fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
1461 'GIT_SSL_CAINFO' environment variable.
1464 Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer
1465 with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden
1466 by the 'GIT_SSL_CAPATH' environment variable.
1469 Attempt to use AUTH SSL/TLS and encrypted data transfers
1470 when connecting via regular FTP protocol. This might be needed
1471 if the FTP server requires it for security reasons or you wish
1472 to connect securely whenever remote FTP server supports it.
1473 Default is false since it might trigger certificate verification
1474 errors on misconfigured servers.
1477 How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden
1478 by the 'GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS' environment variable. Default is 5.
1481 The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across
1482 requests. They will not be ended with curl_easy_cleanup() until
1483 http_cleanup() is invoked. If USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this
1484 value will be capped at 1. Defaults to 1.
1487 Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP
1488 transports when POSTing data to the remote system.
1489 For requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and
1490 Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a
1491 massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is
1492 sufficient for most requests.
1494 http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
1495 If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'
1496 for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.
1497 Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT' and
1498 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME' environment variables.
1501 A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
1502 This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
1503 support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'
1504 environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
1507 The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default
1508 value represents the version of the client Git such as git/1.7.1.
1509 This option allows you to override this value to a more common value
1510 such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if
1511 connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
1512 of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
1513 Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable.
1515 i18n.commitEncoding::
1516 Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself
1517 does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when
1518 importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history
1519 browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other
1520 porcelains). See e.g. linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]. Defaults to 'utf-8'.
1522 i18n.logOutputEncoding::
1523 Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when
1524 running 'git log' and friends.
1527 The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
1528 in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
1531 Specify the directory from which templates will be copied.
1532 (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
1535 Specify the program that will be used to browse your working
1536 repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
1539 The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working
1540 repository. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
1543 If true the web server started by linkgit:git-instaweb[1] will
1544 be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
1546 instaweb.modulepath::
1547 The default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use
1548 instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd
1552 The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
1553 linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
1555 interactive.singlekey::
1556 In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter
1557 input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter).
1558 Currently this is used by the `--patch` mode of
1559 linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], linkgit:git-commit[1],
1560 linkgit:git-reset[1], and linkgit:git-stash[1]. Note that this
1561 setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input
1565 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
1566 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--abbrev-commit`. You may
1567 override this option with `--no-abbrev-commit`.
1570 Set the default date-time mode for the 'log' command.
1571 Setting a value for log.date is similar to using 'git log''s
1572 `--date` option. Possible values are `relative`, `local`,
1573 `default`, `iso`, `rfc`, and `short`; see linkgit:git-log[1]
1577 Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log
1578 command. If 'short' is specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/',
1579 'refs/tags/' and 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is
1580 specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed.
1581 This is the same as the log commands '--decorate' option.
1584 If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event.
1585 This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.
1586 Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which
1587 normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
1590 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
1591 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`.
1594 The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default
1595 mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded
1596 first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable.
1597 The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository
1598 subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself.
1599 See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1].
1602 Like `mailmap.file`, but consider the value as a reference to a
1603 blob in the repository. If both `mailmap.file` and
1604 `mailmap.blob` are given, both are parsed, with entries from
1605 `mailmap.file` taking precedence. In a bare repository, this
1606 defaults to `HEAD:.mailmap`. In a non-bare repository, it
1610 Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the
1611 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
1614 Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The
1615 specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page
1616 passed as argument. (See linkgit:git-help[1].)
1619 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
1620 display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
1622 include::merge-config.txt[]
1624 mergetool.<tool>.path::
1625 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
1626 your tool is not in the PATH.
1628 mergetool.<tool>.cmd::
1629 Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The
1630 specified command is evaluated in shell with the following
1631 variables available: 'BASE' is the name of a temporary file
1632 containing the common base of the files to be merged, if available;
1633 'LOCAL' is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of
1634 the file on the current branch; 'REMOTE' is the name of a temporary
1635 file containing the contents of the file from the branch being
1636 merged; 'MERGED' contains the name of the file to which the merge
1637 tool should write the results of a successful merge.
1639 mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode::
1640 For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of
1641 the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was
1642 successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file
1643 timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful
1644 if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to
1645 indicate the success of the merge.
1647 mergetool.keepBackup::
1648 After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers
1649 can be saved as a file with a `.orig` extension. If this variable
1650 is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to
1651 `true` (i.e. keep the backup files).
1653 mergetool.keepTemporaries::
1654 When invoking a custom merge tool, Git uses a set of temporary
1655 files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this
1656 variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be
1657 preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has
1658 exited. Defaults to `false`.
1661 Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
1664 The (fully qualified) refname from which to show notes when
1665 showing commit messages. The value of this variable can be set
1666 to a glob, in which case notes from all matching refs will be
1667 shown. You may also specify this configuration variable
1668 several times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not
1669 exist, but a glob that does not match any refs is silently
1672 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF`
1673 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
1676 The effective value of "core.notesRef" (possibly overridden by
1677 GIT_NOTES_REF) is also implicitly added to the list of refs to be
1680 notes.rewrite.<command>::
1681 When rewriting commits with <command> (currently `amend` or
1682 `rebase`) and this variable is set to `true`, Git
1683 automatically copies your notes from the original to the
1684 rewritten commit. Defaults to `true`, but see
1685 "notes.rewriteRef" below.
1688 When copying notes during a rewrite (see the
1689 "notes.rewrite.<command>" option), determines what to do if
1690 the target commit already has a note. Must be one of
1691 `overwrite`, `concatenate`, or `ignore`. Defaults to
1694 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE`
1695 environment variable.
1698 When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully
1699 qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. The ref may be a
1700 glob, in which case notes in all matching refs will be copied.
1701 You may also specify this configuration several times.
1703 Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
1704 enable note rewriting. Set it to `refs/notes/commits` to enable
1705 rewriting for the default commit notes.
1707 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`
1708 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
1712 The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
1713 window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
1716 The maximum delta depth used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
1717 maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
1720 The window memory size limit used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
1721 when no limit is given on the command line. The value can be
1722 suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". Defaults to 0, meaning no
1726 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
1727 in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
1728 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
1729 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
1730 not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
1731 compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
1734 Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
1735 all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
1736 to linkgit:git-repack[1].
1738 pack.deltaCacheSize::
1739 The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in
1740 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] before writing them out to a pack.
1741 This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not
1742 having to recompute the final delta result once the best match
1743 for all objects is found. Repacking large repositories on machines
1744 which are tight with memory might be badly impacted by this though,
1745 especially if this cache pushes the system into swapping.
1746 A value of 0 means no limit. The smallest size of 1 byte may be
1747 used to virtually disable this cache. Defaults to 256 MiB.
1749 pack.deltaCacheLimit::
1750 The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in
1751 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. This cache is used to speed up the
1752 writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta
1753 result once the best match for all objects is found. Defaults to 1000.
1756 Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best
1757 delta matches. This requires that linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
1758 be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a
1759 warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
1760 machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window
1761 is however multiplied by the number of threads.
1762 Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
1763 and set the number of threads accordingly.
1766 Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for
1767 legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for
1768 the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB
1769 as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted
1770 packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced
1771 and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is
1774 If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 `*.idx` file,
1775 cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http" and "rsync")
1776 that will copy both `*.pack` file and corresponding `*.idx` file from the
1777 other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your
1778 older version of Git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,
1779 you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate
1782 pack.packSizeLimit::
1783 The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects
1784 packing to a file when repacking, i.e. the git:// protocol
1785 is unaffected. It can be overridden by the `--max-pack-size`
1786 option of linkgit:git-repack[1]. The minimum size allowed is
1787 limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited.
1788 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are
1792 If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the
1793 output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty.
1794 Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the
1795 pager specified by the value of `pager.<cmd>`. If `--paginate`
1796 or `--no-pager` is specified on the command line, it takes
1797 precedence over this option. To disable pagination for all
1798 commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`.
1801 Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
1802 linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just
1803 as the built-in pretty formats could. For example,
1804 running `git config pretty.changelog "format:* %H %s"`
1805 would cause the invocation `git log --pretty=changelog`
1806 to be equivalent to running `git log "--pretty=format:* %H %s"`.
1807 Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format
1808 will be silently ignored.
1811 When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead
1812 of merging the default branch from the default remote when "git
1813 pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a
1816 *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
1817 it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
1821 The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
1825 The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
1828 Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is given
1829 on the command line, no refspec is configured in the remote, and
1830 no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command
1831 line. Possible values are:
1834 * `nothing` - do not push anything.
1835 * `matching` - push all branches having the same name in both ends.
1836 This is for those who prepare all the branches into a publishable
1837 shape and then push them out with a single command. It is not
1838 appropriate for pushing into a repository shared by multiple users,
1839 since locally stalled branches will attempt a non-fast forward push
1840 if other users updated the branch.
1842 This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default
1844 * `upstream` - push the current branch to its upstream branch
1845 (`tracking` is a deprecated synonym for this).
1846 With this, `git push` will update the same remote ref as the one which
1847 is merged by `git pull`, making `push` and `pull` symmetrical.
1848 See "branch.<name>.merge" for how to configure the upstream branch.
1849 * `simple` - like `upstream`, but refuses to push if the upstream
1850 branch's name is different from the local one. This is the safest
1851 option and is well-suited for beginners. It will become the default
1853 * `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name.
1856 The `simple`, `current` and `upstream` modes are for those who want to
1857 push out a single branch after finishing work, even when the other
1858 branches are not yet ready to be pushed out. If you are working with
1859 other people to push into the same shared repository, you would want
1860 to use one of these.
1863 Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last
1864 rebase. False by default.
1867 If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default.
1870 By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
1871 receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop
1872 it by setting this variable to false.
1874 receive.fsckObjects::
1875 If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received
1876 objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a
1877 broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.
1878 Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
1881 receive.unpackLimit::
1882 If the number of objects received in a push is below this
1883 limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
1884 files. However if the number of received objects equals or
1885 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as
1886 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the
1887 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster,
1888 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
1889 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
1891 receive.denyDeletes::
1892 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes
1893 the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push.
1895 receive.denyDeleteCurrent::
1896 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that
1897 deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
1899 receive.denyCurrentBranch::
1900 If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update
1901 to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
1902 Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD
1903 out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn",
1904 print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to
1905 proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no
1906 message. Defaults to "refuse".
1908 receive.denyNonFastForwards::
1909 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is
1910 not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push,
1911 even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is
1912 set when initializing a shared repository.
1915 String(s) `receive-pack` uses to decide which refs to omit
1916 from its initial advertisement. Use more than one
1917 definitions to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that
1918 are under the hierarchies listed on the value of this
1919 variable is excluded, and is hidden when responding to `git
1920 push`, and an attempt to update or delete a hidden ref by
1921 `git push` is rejected.
1923 receive.updateserverinfo::
1924 If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info
1925 after receiving data from git-push and updating refs.
1927 remote.pushdefault::
1928 The remote to push to by default. Overrides
1929 `branch.<name>.remote` for all branches, and is overridden by
1930 `branch.<name>.pushremote` for specific branches.
1933 The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or
1934 linkgit:git-push[1].
1936 remote.<name>.pushurl::
1937 The push URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-push[1].
1939 remote.<name>.proxy::
1940 For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL to
1941 the proxy to use for that remote. Set to the empty string to
1942 disable proxying for that remote.
1944 remote.<name>.fetch::
1945 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-fetch[1]. See
1946 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
1948 remote.<name>.push::
1949 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-push[1]. See
1950 linkgit:git-push[1].
1952 remote.<name>.mirror::
1953 If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave
1954 as if the `--mirror` option was given on the command line.
1956 remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate::
1957 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
1958 using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
1959 linkgit:git-remote[1].
1961 remote.<name>.skipFetchAll::
1962 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
1963 using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
1964 linkgit:git-remote[1].
1966 remote.<name>.receivepack::
1967 The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See
1968 option \--receive-pack of linkgit:git-push[1].
1970 remote.<name>.uploadpack::
1971 The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See
1972 option \--upload-pack of linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1].
1974 remote.<name>.tagopt::
1975 Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when
1976 fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to \--tags will fetch every
1977 tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote
1978 branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can
1979 override this setting. See options \--tags and \--no-tags of
1980 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
1983 Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with
1984 the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper.
1987 The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update
1988 <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1].
1990 repack.usedeltabaseoffset::
1991 By default, linkgit:git-repack[1] creates packs that use
1992 delta-base offset. If you need to share your repository with
1993 Git older than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb
1994 protocol such as http, then you need to set this option to
1995 "false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the
1996 native protocol are unaffected by this option.
1999 When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the
2000 resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using
2001 previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false.
2004 Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical
2005 conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they be
2006 encountered again. By default, linkgit:git-rerere[1] is
2007 enabled if there is an `rr-cache` directory under the
2008 `$GIT_DIR`, e.g. if "rerere" was previously used in the
2011 sendemail.identity::
2012 A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
2013 'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over
2014 values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is
2015 the value of 'sendemail.identity'.
2017 sendemail.smtpencryption::
2018 See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this
2019 setting is not subject to the 'identity' mechanism.
2022 Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpencryption = ssl'.
2024 sendemail.<identity>.*::
2025 Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters
2026 found below, taking precedence over those when the this
2027 identity is selected, through command-line or
2028 'sendemail.identity'.
2030 sendemail.aliasesfile::
2031 sendemail.aliasfiletype::
2032 sendemail.annotate::
2036 sendemail.chainreplyto::
2038 sendemail.envelopesender::
2040 sendemail.multiedit::
2041 sendemail.signedoffbycc::
2042 sendemail.smtppass::
2043 sendemail.suppresscc::
2044 sendemail.suppressfrom::
2046 sendemail.smtpdomain::
2047 sendemail.smtpserver::
2048 sendemail.smtpserverport::
2049 sendemail.smtpserveroption::
2050 sendemail.smtpuser::
2052 sendemail.validate::
2053 See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.
2055 sendemail.signedoffcc::
2056 Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.signedoffbycc'.
2058 showbranch.default::
2059 The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
2060 See linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
2062 status.relativePaths::
2063 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the
2064 current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths
2065 relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git
2068 status.showUntrackedFiles::
2069 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show
2070 files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which
2071 contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name
2072 only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all
2073 all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some
2074 systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays
2075 the untracked files. Possible values are:
2078 * `no` - Show no untracked files.
2079 * `normal` - Show untracked files and directories.
2080 * `all` - Show also individual files in untracked directories.
2083 If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'.
2084 This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option
2085 of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1].
2087 status.submodulesummary::
2089 If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an
2090 unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a
2091 summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see
2092 --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]).
2094 submodule.<name>.path::
2095 submodule.<name>.url::
2096 submodule.<name>.update::
2097 The path within this project, URL, and the updating strategy
2098 for a submodule. These variables are initially populated
2099 by 'git submodule init'; edit them to override the
2100 URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file. See
2101 linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
2103 submodule.<name>.branch::
2104 The remote branch name for a submodule, used by `git submodule
2105 update --remote`. Set this option to override the value found in
2106 the `.gitmodules` file. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and
2107 linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
2109 submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
2110 This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this
2111 submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
2112 command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
2113 This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
2116 submodule.<name>.ignore::
2117 Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
2118 a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
2119 modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and
2120 takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
2121 recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
2122 let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
2123 Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
2124 submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed.
2125 This setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule,
2126 both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
2127 "--ignore-submodules" option.
2130 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
2131 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
2132 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
2133 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and
2134 linkgit:git-archive[1].
2136 transfer.fsckObjects::
2137 When `fetch.fsckObjects` or `receive.fsckObjects` are
2138 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
2142 This variable can be used to set both `receive.hiderefs`
2143 and `uploadpack.hiderefs` at the same time to the same
2144 values. See entries for these other variables.
2146 transfer.unpackLimit::
2147 When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are
2148 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
2149 The default value is 100.
2151 uploadpack.hiderefs::
2152 String(s) `upload-pack` uses to decide which refs to omit
2153 from its initial advertisement. Use more than one
2154 definitions to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that
2155 are under the hierarchies listed on the value of this
2156 variable is excluded, and is hidden from `git ls-remote`,
2157 `git fetch`, etc. An attempt to fetch a hidden ref by `git
2158 fetch` will fail. See also `uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant`.
2160 uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant::
2161 When `uploadpack.hiderefs` is in effect, allow `upload-pack`
2162 to accept a fetch request that asks for an object at the tip
2163 of a hidden ref (by default, such a request is rejected).
2164 see also `uploadpack.hiderefs`.
2166 url.<base>.insteadOf::
2167 Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
2168 start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a
2169 large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
2170 access methods, and some users need to use different access
2171 methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the
2172 equivalent URLs and have Git automatically rewrite the URL to
2173 the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
2174 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
2175 insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.
2177 url.<base>.pushInsteadOf::
2178 Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to;
2179 instead, it will be rewritten to start with <base>, and the
2180 resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves
2181 a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
2182 access methods, some of which do not allow push, this feature
2183 allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have Git
2184 automatically use an appropriate URL to push, even for a
2185 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
2186 pushInsteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is
2187 used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will ignore this
2188 setting for that remote.
2191 Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.
2192 Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', and
2193 'EMAIL' environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
2196 Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits.
2197 Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME' and 'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME'
2198 environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
2201 If linkgit:git-tag[1] is not selecting the key you want it to
2202 automatically when creating a signed tag, you can override the
2203 default selection with this variable. This option is passed
2204 unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key
2205 using any method that gpg supports.
2208 Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands.
2209 Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1]