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; we say then that the variable is
23 The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly
24 ignored. The '#' and ';' characters begin comments to the end of line,
25 blank lines are ignored.
27 The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with
28 the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next
29 section begins. Section names are case-insensitive. Only alphanumeric
30 characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. Each variable
31 must belong to some section, which means that there must be a section
32 header before the first setting of a variable.
34 Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a subsection
35 put its name in double quotes, separated by space from the section name,
36 in the section header, like in the example below:
39 [section "subsection"]
43 Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
44 newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included
45 by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding
46 other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\t` is read as
47 `t` and `\0` is read as `0` Section headers cannot span multiple lines.
48 Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You
49 can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you don't
52 There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this
53 syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also
54 compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
55 restrictions as section names.
57 All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
58 header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form
59 'name = value' (or just 'name', which is a short-hand to say that
60 the variable is the boolean "true").
61 The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
62 and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character.
64 A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
65 ending it with a `\`; the backquote and the end-of-line are
66 stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the
67 line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing
68 whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in
69 double quotes. Internal whitespaces within the value are retained
72 Inside double quotes, double quote `"` and backslash `\` characters
73 must be escaped: use `\"` for `"` and `\\` for `\`.
75 The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized:
76 `\n` for newline character (NL), `\t` for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB)
77 and `\b` for backspace (BS). Other char escape sequences (including octal
78 escape sequences) are invalid.
84 The `include` and `includeIf` sections allow you to include config
85 directives from another source. These sections behave identically to
86 each other with the exception that `includeIf` sections may be ignored
87 if their condition does not evaluate to true; see "Conditional includes"
90 You can include a config file from another by setting the special
91 `include.path` (or `includeIf.*.path`) variable to the name of the file
92 to be included. The variable takes a pathname as its value, and is
93 subject to tilde expansion. These variables can be given multiple times.
95 The contents of the included file are inserted immediately, as if they
96 had been found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the
97 variable is a relative path, the path is considered to
98 be relative to the configuration file in which the include directive
99 was found. See below for examples.
104 You can include a config file from another conditionally by setting a
105 `includeIf.<condition>.path` variable to the name of the file to be
108 The condition starts with a keyword followed by a colon and some data
109 whose format and meaning depends on the keyword. Supported keywords
114 The data that follows the keyword `gitdir:` is used as a glob
115 pattern. If the location of the .git directory matches the
116 pattern, the include condition is met.
118 The .git location may be auto-discovered, or come from `$GIT_DIR`
119 environment variable. If the repository is auto discovered via a .git
120 file (e.g. from submodules, or a linked worktree), the .git location
121 would be the final location where the .git directory is, not where the
124 The pattern can contain standard globbing wildcards and two additional
125 ones, `**/` and `/**`, that can match multiple path components. Please
126 refer to linkgit:gitignore[5] for details. For convenience:
128 * If the pattern starts with `~/`, `~` will be substituted with the
129 content of the environment variable `HOME`.
131 * If the pattern starts with `./`, it is replaced with the directory
132 containing the current config file.
134 * If the pattern does not start with either `~/`, `./` or `/`, `**/`
135 will be automatically prepended. For example, the pattern `foo/bar`
136 becomes `**/foo/bar` and would match `/any/path/to/foo/bar`.
138 * If the pattern ends with `/`, `**` will be automatically added. For
139 example, the pattern `foo/` becomes `foo/**`. In other words, it
140 matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively.
143 This is the same as `gitdir` except that matching is done
144 case-insensitively (e.g. on case-insensitive file sytems)
146 A few more notes on matching via `gitdir` and `gitdir/i`:
148 * Symlinks in `$GIT_DIR` are not resolved before matching.
150 * Both the symlink & realpath versions of paths will be matched
151 outside of `$GIT_DIR`. E.g. if ~/git is a symlink to
152 /mnt/storage/git, both `gitdir:~/git` and `gitdir:/mnt/storage/git`
155 This was not the case in the initial release of this feature in
156 v2.13.0, which only matched the realpath version. Configuration that
157 wants to be compatible with the initial release of this feature needs
158 to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions.
160 * Note that "../" is not special and will match literally, which is
161 unlikely what you want.
168 ; Don't trust file modes
173 external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
178 merge = refs/heads/devel
182 gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
183 gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
186 path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
187 path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file
188 path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory
190 ; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git
191 [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"]
192 path = /path/to/foo.inc
194 ; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group
195 [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
196 path = /path/to/foo.inc
198 ; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group
199 [includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"]
200 path = /path/to/foo.inc
202 ; relative paths are always relative to the including
203 ; file (if the condition is true); their location is not
204 ; affected by the condition
205 [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
211 Values of many variables are treated as a simple string, but there
212 are variables that take values of specific types and there are rules
213 as to how to spell them.
217 When a variable is said to take a boolean value, many
218 synonyms are accepted for 'true' and 'false'; these are all
221 true;; Boolean true literals are `yes`, `on`, `true`,
222 and `1`. Also, a variable defined without `= <value>`
225 false;; Boolean false literals are `no`, `off`, `false`,
226 `0` and the empty string.
228 When converting value to the canonical form using `--bool` type
229 specifier, 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or
230 "false" (spelled in lowercase).
233 The value for many variables that specify various sizes can
234 be suffixed with `k`, `M`,... to mean "scale the number by
235 1024", "by 1024x1024", etc.
238 The value for a variable that takes a color is a list of
239 colors (at most two, one for foreground and one for background)
240 and attributes (as many as you want), separated by spaces.
242 The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`,
243 `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`. The first color given is the
244 foreground; the second is the background.
246 Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI
247 256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may support this). If
248 your terminal supports it, you may also specify 24-bit RGB values as
251 The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, `reverse`,
252 `italic`, and `strike` (for crossed-out or "strikethrough" letters).
253 The position of any attributes with respect to the colors
254 (before, after, or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may
255 be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`,
258 An empty color string produces no color effect at all. This can be used
259 to avoid coloring specific elements without disabling color entirely.
261 For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset
262 at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting
263 `color.decorate.branch` to `black` will paint that branch name in a
264 plain `black`, even if the previous thing on the same output line (e.g.
265 opening parenthesis before the list of branch names in `log --decorate`
266 output) is set to be painted with `bold` or some other attribute.
267 However, custom log formats may do more complicated and layered
268 coloring, and the negated forms may be useful there.
271 A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a
272 string that begins with "`~/`" or "`~user/`", and the usual
273 tilde expansion happens to such a string: `~/`
274 is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the
275 specified user's home directory.
281 Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete.
282 For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description
283 in the appropriate manual page.
285 Other git-related tools may and do use their own variables. When
286 inventing new variables for use in your own tool, make sure their
287 names do not conflict with those that are used by Git itself and
288 other popular tools, and describe them in your documentation.
292 These variables control various optional help messages designed to
293 aid new users. All 'advice.*' variables default to 'true', and you
294 can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to 'false':
298 Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable
300 'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists',
301 'pushFetchFirst', and 'pushNeedsForce'
304 Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] fails due to a
305 non-fast-forward update to the current branch.
307 Advice shown when you ran linkgit:git-push[1] and pushed
308 'matching refs' explicitly (i.e. you used ':', or
309 specified a refspec that isn't your current branch) and
310 it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
312 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
313 does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.)
315 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
316 tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an
317 object we do not have.
319 Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that
320 tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an
321 object that is not a commit-ish, or make the remote
322 ref point at an object that is not a commit-ish.
324 Show directions on how to proceed from the current
325 state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in
326 the template shown when writing commit messages in
327 linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown
328 by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch.
330 Advise to consider using the `-u` option to linkgit:git-status[1]
331 when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked
334 Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
335 merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
337 Advice shown by various commands when conflicts
338 prevent the operation from being performed.
340 Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
341 your information is guessed from the system username and
344 Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to
345 move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
346 a local branch after the fact.
347 checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName::
348 Advice shown when the argument to
349 linkgit:git-checkout[1] ambiguously resolves to a
350 remote tracking branch on more than one remote in
351 situations where an unambiguous argument would have
352 otherwise caused a remote-tracking branch to be
353 checked out. See the `checkout.defaultRemote`
354 configuration variable for how to set a given remote
355 to used by default in some situations where this
356 advice would be printed.
358 Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
359 linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it.
361 In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1],
362 show directions on how to proceed from the current state.
364 Advice on what to do when you've accidentally added one
365 git repo inside of another.
367 Advice shown if a hook is ignored because the hook is not
370 Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for
371 editor input from the user.
375 Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree
378 Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is
379 marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a
380 non-executable file with executable bit on.
381 linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] probe the filesystem
382 to see if it handles the executable bit correctly
383 and this variable is automatically set as necessary.
385 A repository, however, may be on a filesystem that handles
386 the filemode correctly, and this variable is set to 'true'
387 when created, but later may be made accessible from another
388 environment that loses the filemode (e.g. exporting ext4 via
389 CIFS mount, visiting a Cygwin created repository with
390 Git for Windows or Eclipse).
391 In such a case it may be necessary to set this variable to 'false'.
392 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
394 The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file).
397 (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and files whose
398 name starts with a dot as hidden. If 'dotGitOnly', only the `.git/`
399 directory is hidden, but no other files starting with a dot. The
400 default mode is 'dotGitOnly'.
403 Internal variable which enables various workarounds to enable
404 Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive,
405 like APFS, HFS+, FAT, NTFS, etc. For example, if a directory listing
406 finds "makefile" when Git expects "Makefile", Git will assume
407 it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as
410 The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
411 will probe and set core.ignoreCase true if appropriate when the repository
414 Git relies on the proper configuration of this variable for your operating
415 and file system. Modifying this value may result in unexpected behavior.
417 core.precomposeUnicode::
418 This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git.
419 When core.precomposeUnicode=true, Git reverts the unicode decomposition
420 of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository
421 between Mac OS and Linux or Windows.
422 (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7).
423 When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git,
424 which is backward compatible with older versions of Git.
427 If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would
428 be considered equivalent to `.git` on an HFS+ filesystem.
429 Defaults to `true` on Mac OS, and `false` elsewhere.
432 If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would
433 cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with
435 Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere.
438 If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which
439 will identify all files that may have changed since the
440 requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git by
441 avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed.
442 See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5].
445 If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
446 working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
447 is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system
448 crawlers and some backup systems).
449 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
452 If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used.
453 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. False by default.
455 core.untrackedCache::
456 Determines what to do about the untracked cache feature of the
457 index. It will be kept, if this variable is unset or set to
458 `keep`. It will automatically be added if set to `true`. And
459 it will automatically be removed, if set to `false`. Before
460 setting it to `true`, you should check that mtime is working
461 properly on your system.
462 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default.
465 Determines which stat fields to match between the index
466 and work tree. The user can set this to 'default' or
467 'minimal'. Default (or explicitly 'default'), is to check
468 all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime.
471 Commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), will
472 quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
473 pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with
474 backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters (e.g.
475 `\t` for TAB, `\n` for LF, `\\` for backslash) or bytes with
476 values larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal `\302\265` for "micro" in
477 UTF-8). If this variable is set to false, bytes higher than
478 0x80 are not considered "unusual" any more. Double-quotes,
479 backslash and control characters are always escaped regardless
480 of the setting of this variable. A simple space character is
481 not considered "unusual". Many commands can output pathnames
482 completely verbatim using the `-z` option. The default value
486 Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
487 files that have the `text` property set when core.autocrlf is false.
488 Alternatives are 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's
489 native line ending. The default value is `native`. See
490 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line
494 If true, makes Git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when
495 end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a command
496 modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly.
497 For example, committing a file followed by checking out the
498 same file should yield the original file in the work tree. If
499 this is not the case for the current setting of
500 `core.autocrlf`, Git will reject the file. The variable can
501 be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an
502 irreversible conversion but continue the operation.
504 CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
505 When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to
506 CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and
507 CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by Git. For text
508 files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
509 such that we have only LF line endings in the repository.
510 But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the
511 conversion can corrupt data.
513 If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by
514 setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right
515 after committing you still have the original file in your work
516 tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell
517 Git that this file is binary and Git will handle the file
520 Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with
521 mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary
522 files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed
523 in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing
524 to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files
525 converting CRLFs corrupts data.
527 Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a
528 file identical to the original file for a different setting of
529 `core.eol` and `core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For
530 example, a text file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.eol=lf`
531 and could later be checked out with `core.eol=crlf`, in which case the
532 resulting file would contain `CRLF`, although the original file
533 contained `LF`. However, in both work trees the line endings would be
534 consistent, that is either all `LF` or all `CRLF`, but never mixed. A
535 file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf`
539 Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting
540 the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf".
541 Set to true if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
542 working directory and the repository has LF line endings.
543 This variable can be set to 'input',
544 in which case no output conversion is performed.
546 core.checkRoundtripEncoding::
547 A comma and/or whitespace separated list of encodings that Git
548 performs UTF-8 round trip checks on if they are used in an
549 `working-tree-encoding` attribute (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
550 The default value is `SHIFT-JIS`.
553 If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
554 contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and
555 linkgit:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular
556 file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
559 The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
560 will probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the repository
564 A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead
565 of establishing direct connection to the remote server when
566 using the Git protocol for fetching. If the variable value is
567 in the "COMMAND for DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only
568 on hostnames ending with the specified domain string. This variable
569 may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order;
570 the first match wins.
572 Can be overridden by the `GIT_PROXY_COMMAND` environment variable
573 (which always applies universally, without the special "for"
576 The special string `none` can be used as the proxy command to
577 specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern.
578 This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from
579 proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains.
582 If this variable is set, `git fetch` and `git push` will
583 use the specified command instead of `ssh` when they need to
584 connect to a remote system. The command is in the same form as
585 the `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` environment variable and is overridden
586 when the environment variable is set.
589 If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have
590 changed by setting the "assume-unchanged" bit for those tracked files
591 which it has updated identically in both the index and working tree.
593 When files are modified outside of Git, the user will need to stage
594 the modified files explicitly (e.g. see 'Examples' section in
595 linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
596 Git will not normally detect changes to those files.
598 This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow, such as
599 CIFS/Microsoft Windows.
603 core.preferSymlinkRefs::
604 Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD
605 and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links.
606 This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that
607 expect HEAD to be a symbolic link.
610 If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no
611 working directory associated with it. If this is the case a
612 number of commands that require a working directory will be
613 disabled, such as linkgit:git-add[1] or linkgit:git-merge[1].
615 This setting is automatically guessed by linkgit:git-clone[1] or
616 linkgit:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a
617 repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare =
618 false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
622 Set the path to the root of the working tree.
623 If `GIT_COMMON_DIR` environment variable is set, core.worktree
624 is ignored and not used for determining the root of working tree.
625 This can be overridden by the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment
626 variable and the `--work-tree` command-line option.
627 The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to
628 the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
629 or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered.
630 If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is specified but none of
631 --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified,
632 the current working directory is regarded as the top level
633 of your working tree.
635 Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration
636 file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory and its value differs
637 from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has
638 core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a
639 misconfiguration. Running Git commands in the "/path/to" directory will
640 still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause
641 confusion unless you know what you are doing (e.g. you are creating a
642 read-only snapshot of the same index to a location different from the
643 repository's usual working tree).
645 core.logAllRefUpdates::
646 Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
647 "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`", by appending the new and old
648 SHA-1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but
649 only when the file exists. If this configuration
650 variable is set to `true`, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`"
651 file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under
652 `refs/heads/`), remote refs (i.e. under `refs/remotes/`),
653 note refs (i.e. under `refs/notes/`), and the symbolic ref `HEAD`.
654 If it is set to `always`, then a missing reflog is automatically
655 created for any ref under `refs/`.
657 This information can be used to determine what commit
658 was the tip of a branch "2 days ago".
660 This value is true by default in a repository that has
661 a working directory associated with it, and false by
662 default in a bare repository.
664 core.repositoryFormatVersion::
665 Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout
668 core.sharedRepository::
669 When 'group' (or 'true'), the repository is made shareable between
670 several users in a group (making sure all the files and objects are
671 group-writable). When 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'), the
672 repository will be readable by all users, additionally to being
673 group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), Git will use permissions
674 reported by umask(2). When '0xxx', where '0xxx' is an octal number,
675 files in the repository will have this mode value. '0xxx' will override
676 user's umask value (whereas the other options will only override
677 requested parts of the user's umask value). Examples: '0660' will make
678 the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to
679 others (equivalent to 'group' unless umask is e.g. '0022'). '0640' is a
680 repository that is group-readable but not group-writable.
681 See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default.
683 core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
684 If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
685 and might match multiple refs in the repository. True by default.
688 An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
689 -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
690 and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.
691 If set, this provides a default to other compression variables,
692 such as `core.looseCompression` and `pack.compression`.
694 core.looseCompression::
695 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
696 are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
697 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
698 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
699 not set, defaults to 1 (best speed).
701 core.packedGitWindowSize::
702 Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a
703 single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow
704 your system to process a smaller number of large pack files
705 more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect
706 performance due to increased calls to the operating system's
707 memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing
708 a large number of large pack files.
710 Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32
711 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should
712 be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do
713 not need to adjust this value.
715 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
717 core.packedGitLimit::
718 Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory
719 from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many
720 bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing
721 regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process.
723 Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 32 TiB (effectively
724 unlimited) on 64 bit platforms.
725 This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on
726 the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
728 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
730 core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
731 Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
732 that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the
733 entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
734 to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
735 objects multiple times.
737 Default is 96 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
738 for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects.
739 You probably do not need to adjust this value.
741 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
743 core.bigFileThreshold::
744 Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without
745 attempting delta compression. Storing large files without
746 delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the
747 slight expense of increased disk usage. Additionally files
748 larger than this size are always treated as binary.
750 Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
751 for most projects as source code and other text files can still
752 be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
754 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
757 Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
758 describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
759 to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'.
760 Defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore`.
761 If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`
762 is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
765 Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively
766 ask for a password can be told to use an external program given
767 via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the `GIT_ASKPASS`
768 environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the
769 `SSH_ASKPASS` environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
770 prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
771 command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
773 core.attributesFile::
774 In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
775 '.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes
776 (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
777 way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is
778 `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not
779 set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/attributes` is used instead.
782 By default Git will look for your hooks in the
783 '$GIT_DIR/hooks' directory. Set this to different path,
784 e.g. '/etc/git/hooks', and Git will try to find your hooks in
785 that directory, e.g. '/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive' instead of
786 in '$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive'.
788 The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is
789 taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run (see
790 the "DESCRIPTION" section of linkgit:githooks[5]).
792 This configuration variable is useful in cases where you'd like to
793 centrally configure your Git hooks instead of configuring them on a
794 per-repository basis, or as a more flexible and centralized
795 alternative to having an `init.templateDir` where you've changed
799 Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that let you edit
800 messages by launching an editor use the value of this
801 variable when it is set, and the environment variable
802 `GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1].
805 Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that let you edit
806 messages consider a line that begins with this character
807 commented, and removes them after the editor returns
810 If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not
811 the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages.
813 core.filesRefLockTimeout::
814 The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to
815 lock an individual reference. Value 0 means not to retry at
816 all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 100 (i.e.,
819 core.packedRefsTimeout::
820 The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to
821 lock the `packed-refs` file. Value 0 means not to retry at
822 all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e.,
826 Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase instruction file.
827 The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used.
828 It can be overridden by the `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` environment variable.
829 When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead.
832 Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., 'less'). The value
833 is meant to be interpreted by the shell. The order of preference
834 is the `$GIT_PAGER` environment variable, then `core.pager`
835 configuration, then `$PAGER`, and then the default chosen at
836 compile time (usually 'less').
838 When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `FRX`
839 (if `LESS` environment variable is set, Git does not change it at
840 all). If you want to selectively override Git's default setting
841 for `LESS`, you can set `core.pager` to e.g. `less -S`. This will
842 be passed to the shell by Git, which will translate the final
843 command to `LESS=FRX less -S`. The environment does not set the
844 `S` option but the command line does, instructing less to truncate
845 long lines. Similarly, setting `core.pager` to `less -+F` will
846 deactivate the `F` option specified by the environment from the
847 command-line, deactivating the "quit if one screen" behavior of
848 `less`. One can specifically activate some flags for particular
849 commands: for example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables
850 line truncation only for `git blame`.
852 Likewise, when the `LV` environment variable is unset, Git sets it
853 to `-c`. You can override this setting by exporting `LV` with
854 another value or setting `core.pager` to `lv +c`.
857 A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
858 notice. 'git diff' will use `color.diff.whitespace` to
859 highlight them, and 'git apply --whitespace=error' will
860 consider them as errors. You can prefix `-` to disable
861 any of them (e.g. `-trailing-space`):
863 * `blank-at-eol` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
864 as an error (enabled by default).
865 * `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
866 before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
867 error (enabled by default).
868 * `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with space
869 characters instead of the equivalent tabs as an error (not enabled by
871 * `tab-in-indent` treats a tab character in the initial indent part of
872 the line as an error (not enabled by default).
873 * `blank-at-eof` treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error
874 (enabled by default).
875 * `trailing-space` is a short-hand to cover both `blank-at-eol` and
877 * `cr-at-eol` treats a carriage-return at the end of line as
878 part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space`
879 does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
880 is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
881 * `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this
882 is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when Git fixes `tab-in-indent`
883 errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63.
885 core.fsyncObjectFiles::
886 This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
888 This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders
889 data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use
890 journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata
891 and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
894 Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff'
896 This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially
897 on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus
898 relatively high IO latencies. When enabled, Git will do the
899 index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing
900 overlapping IO's. Defaults to true.
903 You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by
904 a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation
905 will not overwrite existing objects.
907 On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable.
908 Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the
909 check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten.
912 When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in
913 the given ref. The ref must be fully qualified. If the given
914 ref does not exist, it is not an error but means that no
915 notes should be printed.
917 This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by
918 the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1].
921 If true, then gc will rewrite the commit-graph file when
922 linkgit:git-gc[1] is run. When using linkgit:git-gc[1]
923 '--auto' the commit-graph will be updated if housekeeping is
924 required. Default is false. See linkgit:git-commit-graph[1]
927 core.sparseCheckout::
928 Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
929 linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
932 Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If
933 unspecified or set to "auto", an appropriate value is
934 computed based on the approximate number of packed objects
935 in your repository, which hopefully is enough for
936 abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time.
937 The minimum length is 4.
940 add.ignore-errors (deprecated)::
941 Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
942 added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the `--ignore-errors`
943 option of linkgit:git-add[1]. `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated,
944 as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration
948 Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
949 after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
950 "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid
951 confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that
952 hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by
953 spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported.
954 A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them.
956 If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
957 it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining
958 "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation
959 "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command
960 "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be
961 executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
962 not necessarily be the current directory.
963 `GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
964 from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
967 If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format
968 with parameter `--keep-cr`. In this case git-mailsplit will
969 not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden
970 by giving `--no-keep-cr` from the command line.
971 See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1].
974 By default, `git am` will fail if the patch does not apply cleanly. When
975 set to true, this setting tells `git am` to fall back on 3-way merge if
976 the patch records the identity of blobs it is supposed to apply to and
977 we have those blobs available locally (equivalent to giving the `--3way`
978 option from the command line). Defaults to `false`.
979 See linkgit:git-am[1].
981 apply.ignoreWhitespace::
982 When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in
983 whitespace, in the same way as the `--ignore-space-change`
985 When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git apply' to
986 respect all whitespace differences.
987 See linkgit:git-apply[1].
990 Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
991 as the `--whitespace` option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].
994 Do not treat root commits as boundaries in linkgit:git-blame[1].
995 This option defaults to false.
997 blame.blankBoundary::
998 Show blank commit object name for boundary commits in
999 linkgit:git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false.
1002 Show the author email instead of author name in linkgit:git-blame[1].
1003 This option defaults to false.
1006 Specifies the format used to output dates in linkgit:git-blame[1].
1007 If unset the iso format is used. For supported values,
1008 see the discussion of the `--date` option at linkgit:git-log[1].
1010 branch.autoSetupMerge::
1011 Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches
1012 so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the
1013 starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set,
1014 this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
1015 and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no
1016 automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the
1017 starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` --
1018 automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a
1019 local branch or remote-tracking
1020 branch. This option defaults to true.
1022 branch.autoSetupRebase::
1023 When a new branch is created with 'git branch' or 'git checkout'
1024 that tracks another branch, this variable tells Git to set
1025 up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase").
1026 When `never`, rebase is never automatically set to true.
1027 When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
1028 other local branches.
1029 When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
1030 remote-tracking branches.
1031 When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking
1033 See "branch.autoSetupMerge" for details on how to set up a
1034 branch to track another branch.
1035 This option defaults to never.
1037 branch.<name>.remote::
1038 When on branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' and 'git push'
1039 which remote to fetch from/push to. The remote to push to
1040 may be overridden with `remote.pushDefault` (for all branches).
1041 The remote to push to, for the current branch, may be further
1042 overridden by `branch.<name>.pushRemote`. If no remote is
1043 configured, or if you are not on any branch, it defaults to
1044 `origin` for fetching and `remote.pushDefault` for pushing.
1045 Additionally, `.` (a period) is the current local repository
1046 (a dot-repository), see `branch.<name>.merge`'s final note below.
1048 branch.<name>.pushRemote::
1049 When on branch <name>, it overrides `branch.<name>.remote` for
1050 pushing. It also overrides `remote.pushDefault` for pushing
1051 from branch <name>. When you pull from one place (e.g. your
1052 upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own publishing
1053 repository), you would want to set `remote.pushDefault` to
1054 specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this
1055 option to override it for a specific branch.
1057 branch.<name>.merge::
1058 Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch
1059 for the given branch. It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull'/'git rebase' which
1060 branch to merge and can also affect 'git push' (see push.default).
1061 When in branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' the default
1062 refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is
1063 handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a
1064 ref which is fetched from the remote given by
1065 "branch.<name>.remote".
1066 The merge information is used by 'git pull' (which at first calls
1067 'git fetch') to lookup the default branch for merging. Without
1068 this option, 'git pull' defaults to merge the first refspec fetched.
1069 Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge.
1070 If you wish to setup 'git pull' so that it merges into <name> from
1071 another branch in the local repository, you can point
1072 branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the relative path
1073 setting `.` (a period) for branch.<name>.remote.
1075 branch.<name>.mergeOptions::
1076 Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
1077 supported options are the same as those of linkgit:git-merge[1], but
1078 option values containing whitespace characters are currently not
1081 branch.<name>.rebase::
1082 When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched branch,
1083 instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when
1084 "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non
1085 branch-specific manner.
1087 When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase'
1088 so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
1089 linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
1091 When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
1092 so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
1093 by running 'git pull'.
1095 When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
1097 *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
1098 it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
1101 branch.<name>.description::
1102 Branch description, can be edited with
1103 `git branch --edit-description`. Branch description is
1104 automatically added in the format-patch cover letter or
1105 request-pull summary.
1107 browser.<tool>.cmd::
1108 Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The
1109 specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed
1110 as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].)
1112 browser.<tool>.path::
1113 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
1114 browse HTML help (see `-w` option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a
1115 working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]).
1117 checkout.defaultRemote::
1118 When you run 'git checkout <something>' and only have one
1119 remote, it may implicitly fall back on checking out and
1120 tracking e.g. 'origin/<something>'. This stops working as soon
1121 as you have more than one remote with a '<something>'
1122 reference. This setting allows for setting the name of a
1123 preferred remote that should always win when it comes to
1124 disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this to
1127 Currently this is used by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when 'git checkout
1128 <something>' will checkout the '<something>' branch on another remote,
1129 and by linkgit:git-worktree[1] when 'git worktree add' refers to a
1130 remote branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like
1131 commands or functionality in the future.
1133 clean.requireForce::
1134 A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f,
1135 -i or -n. Defaults to true.
1138 A boolean to enable/disable color in hints (e.g. when a push
1139 failed, see `advice.*` for a list). May be set to `always`,
1140 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors
1141 are used only when the error output goes to a terminal. If
1142 unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1145 Use customized color for hints.
1148 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
1149 linkgit:git-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
1150 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
1151 only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
1152 value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1154 color.branch.<slot>::
1155 Use customized color for branch coloration. `<slot>` is one of
1156 `current` (the current branch), `local` (a local branch),
1157 `remote` (a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/),
1158 `upstream` (upstream tracking branch), `plain` (other
1162 Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches.
1163 If this is set to `always`, linkgit:git-diff[1],
1164 linkgit:git-log[1], and linkgit:git-show[1] will use color
1165 for all patches. If it is set to `true` or `auto`, those
1166 commands will only use color when output is to the terminal.
1167 If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by
1170 This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or the
1171 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the
1172 command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option.
1175 If set to either a valid `<mode>` or a true value, moved lines
1176 in a diff are colored differently, for details of valid modes
1177 see '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1]. If simply set to
1178 true the default color mode will be used. When set to false,
1179 moved lines are not colored.
1182 When moved lines are colored using e.g. the `diff.colorMoved` setting,
1183 this option controls the `<mode>` how spaces are treated
1184 for details of valid modes see '--color-moved-ws' in linkgit:git-diff[1].
1187 Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies
1188 which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one
1189 of `context` (context text - `plain` is a historical synonym),
1190 `meta` (metainformation), `frag`
1191 (hunk header), 'func' (function in hunk header), `old` (removed lines),
1192 `new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), `whitespace`
1193 (highlighting whitespace errors), `oldMoved` (deleted lines),
1194 `newMoved` (added lines), `oldMovedDimmed`, `oldMovedAlternative`,
1195 `oldMovedAlternativeDimmed`, `newMovedDimmed`, `newMovedAlternative`
1196 and `newMovedAlternativeDimmed` (See the '<mode>'
1197 setting of '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1] for details).
1199 color.decorate.<slot>::
1200 Use customized color for 'git log --decorate' output. `<slot>` is one
1201 of `branch`, `remoteBranch`, `tag`, `stash` or `HEAD` for local
1202 branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively
1203 and `grafted` for grafted commits.
1206 When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or
1207 `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use color only
1208 when the output is written to the terminal. If unset, then the
1209 value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1212 Use customized color for grep colorization. `<slot>` specifies which
1213 part of the line to use the specified color, and is one of
1217 non-matching text in context lines (when using `-A`, `-B`, or `-C`)
1219 filename prefix (when not using `-h`)
1221 function name lines (when using `-p`)
1223 line number prefix (when using `-n`)
1225 column number prefix (when using `--column`)
1227 matching text (same as setting `matchContext` and `matchSelected`)
1229 matching text in context lines
1231 matching text in selected lines
1233 non-matching text in selected lines
1235 separators between fields on a line (`:`, `-`, and `=`)
1236 and between hunks (`--`)
1240 When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts
1241 and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive" and
1242 "git-clean --interactive"). When false (or `never`), never.
1243 When set to `true` or `auto`, use colors only when the output is
1244 to the terminal. If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is
1245 used (`auto` by default).
1247 color.interactive.<slot>::
1248 Use customized color for 'git add --interactive' and 'git clean
1249 --interactive' output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help`
1250 or `error`, for four distinct types of normal output from
1251 interactive commands.
1254 A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in
1255 use (default is true).
1258 A boolean to enable/disable color in push errors. May be set to
1259 `always`, `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which
1260 case colors are used only when the error output goes to a terminal.
1261 If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1264 Use customized color for push errors.
1267 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
1268 linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
1269 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
1270 only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
1271 value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1274 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
1275 linkgit:git-status[1]. May be set to `always`,
1276 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
1277 only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
1278 value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1280 color.status.<slot>::
1281 Use customized color for status colorization. `<slot>` is
1282 one of `header` (the header text of the status message),
1283 `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed),
1284 `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index),
1285 `untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git),
1286 `branch` (the current branch),
1287 `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
1289 `localBranch` or `remoteBranch` (the local and remote branch names,
1290 respectively, when branch and tracking information is displayed in the
1291 status short-format), or
1292 `unmerged` (files which have unmerged changes).
1294 color.blame.repeatedLines::
1295 Use the customized color for the part of git-blame output that
1296 is repeated meta information per line (such as commit id,
1297 author name, date and timezone). Defaults to cyan.
1299 color.blame.highlightRecent::
1300 This can be used to color the metadata of a blame line depending
1303 This setting should be set to a comma-separated list of color and date settings,
1304 starting and ending with a color, the dates should be set from oldest to newest.
1305 The metadata will be colored given the colors if the the line was introduced
1306 before the given timestamp, overwriting older timestamped colors.
1308 Instead of an absolute timestamp relative timestamps work as well, e.g.
1309 2.weeks.ago is valid to address anything older than 2 weeks.
1311 It defaults to 'blue,12 month ago,white,1 month ago,red', which colors
1312 everything older than one year blue, recent changes between one month and
1313 one year old are kept white, and lines introduced within the last month are
1317 This determines the coloring scheme to be applied to blame
1318 output. It can be 'repeatedLines', 'highlightRecent',
1319 or 'none' which is the default.
1322 A boolean to enable/disable color when pushes are rejected. May be
1323 set to `always`, `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which
1324 case colors are used only when the error output goes to a terminal.
1325 If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1327 color.transport.rejected::
1328 Use customized color when a push was rejected.
1331 This variable determines the default value for variables such
1332 as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color
1333 per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn
1334 configuration to set a default for the `--color` option. Set it
1335 to `false` or `never` if you prefer Git commands not to use
1336 color unless enabled explicitly with some other configuration
1337 or the `--color` option. Set it to `always` if you want all
1338 output not intended for machine consumption to use color, to
1339 `true` or `auto` (this is the default since Git 1.8.4) if you
1340 want such output to use color when written to the terminal.
1343 Specify whether supported commands should output in columns.
1344 This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces
1347 These options control when the feature should be enabled
1348 (defaults to 'never'):
1352 always show in columns
1354 never show in columns
1356 show in columns if the output is to the terminal
1359 These options control layout (defaults to 'column'). Setting any
1360 of these implies 'always' if none of 'always', 'never', or 'auto' are
1365 fill columns before rows
1367 fill rows before columns
1372 Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option (defaults
1377 make unequal size columns to utilize more space
1379 make equal size columns
1383 Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns.
1384 See `column.ui` for details.
1387 Specify the layout when list items in `git clean -i`, which always
1388 shows files and directories in columns. See `column.ui` for details.
1391 Specify whether to output untracked files in `git status` in columns.
1392 See `column.ui` for details.
1395 Specify whether to output tag listing in `git tag` in columns.
1396 See `column.ui` for details.
1399 This setting overrides the default of the `--cleanup` option in
1400 `git commit`. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for details. Changing the
1401 default can be useful when you always want to keep lines that begin
1402 with comment character `#` in your log message, in which case you
1403 would do `git config commit.cleanup whitespace` (note that you will
1404 have to remove the help lines that begin with `#` in the commit log
1405 template yourself, if you do this).
1409 A boolean to specify whether all commits should be GPG signed.
1410 Use of this option when doing operations such as rebase can
1411 result in a large number of commits being signed. It may be
1412 convenient to use an agent to avoid typing your GPG passphrase
1416 A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the
1417 commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit
1418 message. Defaults to true.
1421 Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for
1422 new commit messages.
1425 A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with `git commit`.
1426 See linkgit:git-commit[1].
1429 Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
1430 password credential is needed; the helper may consult external
1431 storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. Note
1432 that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
1435 credential.useHttpPath::
1436 When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http
1437 or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See
1438 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information.
1440 credential.username::
1441 If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username
1442 by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and
1443 linkgit:gitcredentials[7].
1445 credential.<url>.*::
1446 Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to
1447 some credentials. For example "credential.https://example.com.username"
1448 would set the default username only for https connections to
1449 example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are
1452 credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP::
1453 Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting.
1455 completion.commands::
1456 This is only used by git-completion.bash to add or remove
1457 commands from the list of completed commands. Normally only
1458 porcelain commands and a few select others are completed. You
1459 can add more commands, separated by space, in this
1460 variable. Prefixing the command with '-' will remove it from
1463 include::diff-config.txt[]
1465 difftool.<tool>.path::
1466 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
1467 your tool is not in the PATH.
1469 difftool.<tool>.cmd::
1470 Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool.
1471 The specified command is evaluated in shell with the following
1472 variables available: 'LOCAL' is set to the name of the temporary
1473 file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and 'REMOTE'
1474 is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents
1475 of the diff post-image.
1478 Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
1480 fastimport.unpackLimit::
1481 If the number of objects imported by linkgit:git-fast-import[1]
1482 is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into
1483 loose object files. However if the number of imported objects
1484 equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as a
1485 pack. Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the import
1486 operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If
1487 not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
1489 fetch.recurseSubmodules::
1490 This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'.
1491 Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to
1492 unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not
1493 recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default
1494 value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule
1495 when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
1499 If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched
1500 objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a
1501 broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.
1502 Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
1506 If the number of objects fetched over the Git native
1507 transfer is below this
1508 limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
1509 files. However if the number of received objects equals or
1510 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as
1511 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the
1512 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster,
1513 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
1514 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
1517 If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the `--prune`
1518 option was given on the command line. See also `remote.<name>.prune`
1519 and the PRUNING section of linkgit:git-fetch[1].
1522 If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the
1523 `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` refspec was provided when pruning,
1524 if not set already. This allows for setting both this option
1525 and `fetch.prune` to maintain a 1=1 mapping to upstream
1526 refs. See also `remote.<name>.pruneTags` and the PRUNING
1527 section of linkgit:git-fetch[1].
1530 Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are
1531 `full` and `compact`. Default value is `full`. See section
1532 OUTPUT in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for detail.
1535 Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for
1536 'format-patch'. The value can also be a double quoted string
1537 which will enable attachments as the default and set the
1538 value as the boundary. See the --attach option in
1539 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1542 Provides the default value for the `--from` option to format-patch.
1543 Accepts a boolean value, or a name and email address. If false,
1544 format-patch defaults to `--no-from`, using commit authors directly in
1545 the "From:" field of patch mails. If true, format-patch defaults to
1546 `--from`, using your committer identity in the "From:" field of patch
1547 mails and including a "From:" field in the body of the patch mail if
1548 different. If set to a non-boolean value, format-patch uses that
1549 value instead of your committer identity. Defaults to false.
1552 A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch
1553 subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there
1554 is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all
1555 messages by setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered
1556 option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1559 Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted
1560 by mail. See linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1564 Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted
1565 by mail. See the --to and --cc options in
1566 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1568 format.subjectPrefix::
1569 The default for format-patch is to output files with the '[PATCH]'
1570 subject prefix. Use this variable to change that prefix.
1573 The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing
1574 the Git version number. Use this variable to change that default.
1575 Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress
1576 signature generation.
1578 format.signatureFile::
1579 Works just like format.signature except the contents of the
1580 file specified by this variable will be used as the signature.
1583 The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix
1584 `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
1585 include the dot if you want it).
1588 The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command,
1589 See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1],
1590 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1].
1593 The default threading style for 'git format-patch'. Can be
1594 a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading
1595 makes every mail a reply to the head of the series,
1596 where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the
1597 `--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order.
1598 `deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one.
1599 A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false
1600 value disables threading.
1603 A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of
1604 format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a
1605 patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have
1606 the rights to submit this work under the same open source license.
1607 Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion.
1609 format.coverLetter::
1610 A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when
1611 format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to
1612 generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch.
1614 format.outputDirectory::
1615 Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the
1616 current working directory.
1618 format.useAutoBase::
1619 A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of
1620 format-patch by default.
1622 filter.<driver>.clean::
1623 The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree
1624 file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
1627 filter.<driver>.smudge::
1628 The command which is used to convert the content of a blob
1629 object to a worktree file upon checkout. See
1630 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
1633 Allows overriding the message type (error, warn or ignore) of a
1634 specific message ID such as `missingEmail`.
1636 For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message ID,
1637 e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing email" means
1638 that setting `fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue.
1640 This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories
1641 which cannot be repaired without disruptive changes.
1644 The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per
1645 line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
1646 be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project
1647 should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that
1648 can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
1649 Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
1651 gc.aggressiveDepth::
1652 The depth parameter used in the delta compression
1653 algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
1656 gc.aggressiveWindow::
1657 The window size parameter used in the delta compression
1658 algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
1662 When there are approximately more than this many loose
1663 objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them.
1664 Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a
1665 light-weight garbage collection from time to time. The
1666 default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables it.
1669 When there are more than this many packs that are not
1670 marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc
1671 --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The
1672 default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
1675 Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background
1676 if the system supports it. Default is true.
1678 gc.bigPackThreshold::
1679 If non-zero, all packs larger than this limit are kept when
1680 `git gc` is run. This is very similar to `--keep-base-pack`
1681 except that all packs that meet the threshold are kept, not
1682 just the base pack. Defaults to zero. Common unit suffixes of
1683 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
1685 Note that if the number of kept packs is more than gc.autoPackLimit,
1686 this configuration variable is ignored, all packs except the base pack
1687 will be repacked. After this the number of packs should go below
1688 gc.autoPackLimit and gc.bigPackThreshold should be respected again.
1691 If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` won't run
1692 unless that file is more than 'gc.logExpiry' old. Default is
1693 "1.day". See `gc.pruneExpire` for more ways to specify its
1697 Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it
1698 unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb
1699 transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether
1700 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `notbare`
1701 to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a
1702 boolean value. The default is `true`.
1705 When 'git gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'.
1706 Override the grace period with this config variable. The value
1707 "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune
1708 unreachable objects immediately, or "never" may be used to
1709 suppress pruning. This feature helps prevent corruption when
1710 'git gc' runs concurrently with another process writing to the
1711 repository; see the "NOTES" section of linkgit:git-gc[1].
1713 gc.worktreePruneExpire::
1714 When 'git gc' is run, it calls
1715 'git worktree prune --expire 3.months.ago'.
1716 This config variable can be used to set a different grace
1717 period. The value "now" may be used to disable the grace
1718 period and prune `$GIT_DIR/worktrees` immediately, or "never"
1719 may be used to suppress pruning.
1722 gc.<pattern>.reflogExpire::
1723 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
1724 this time; defaults to 90 days. The value "now" expires all
1725 entries immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration
1726 altogether. With "<pattern>" (e.g.
1727 "refs/stash") in the middle the setting applies only to
1728 the refs that match the <pattern>.
1730 gc.reflogExpireUnreachable::
1731 gc.<pattern>.reflogExpireUnreachable::
1732 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
1733 this time and are not reachable from the current tip;
1734 defaults to 30 days. The value "now" expires all entries
1735 immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration altogether.
1736 With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash")
1737 in the middle, the setting applies only to the refs that
1738 match the <pattern>.
1741 Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are
1742 kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
1743 You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc.
1744 The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
1746 gc.rerereUnresolved::
1747 Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are
1748 kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
1749 You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc.
1750 The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
1752 gitcvs.commitMsgAnnotation::
1753 Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string
1754 to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator".
1757 Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository.
1758 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1761 Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs
1762 various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1764 gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
1765 If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion
1766 attributes for files to determine the `-k` modes to use. If
1767 the attributes force Git to treat a file as text,
1768 the `-k` mode will be left blank so CVS clients will
1769 treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file
1770 will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging
1771 the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow
1772 the file type to be determined, then `gitcvs.allBinary` is
1773 used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
1776 This is used if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` does not resolve
1777 the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all
1778 unresolved files are sent to the client in
1779 mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them
1780 as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it
1781 otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess",
1782 then the contents of the file are examined to decide if
1783 it is binary, similar to `core.autocrlf`.
1786 Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
1787 derived from the Git repository. The exact meaning depends on the
1788 used database driver, for SQLite (which is the default driver) this
1789 is a filename. Supports variable substitution (see
1790 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). May not contain semicolons (`;`).
1791 Default: '%Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite'
1794 Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver
1795 for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested
1796 with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with 'DBD::Pg', and
1797 reported *not* to work with 'DBD::mysql'. Experimental feature.
1798 May not contain double colons (`:`). Default: 'SQLite'.
1799 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1801 gitcvs.dbUser, gitcvs.dbPass::
1802 Database user and password. Only useful if setting `gitcvs.dbDriver`,
1803 since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords.
1804 'gitcvs.dbUser' supports variable substitution (see
1805 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).
1807 gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix::
1808 Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any
1809 database tables used, allowing a single database to be used
1810 for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see
1811 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic
1812 characters will be replaced with underscores.
1814 All gitcvs variables except for `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` and
1815 `gitcvs.allBinary` can also be specified as
1816 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
1817 is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
1821 gitweb.description::
1824 See linkgit:gitweb[1] for description.
1832 gitweb.remote_heads::
1835 See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for description.
1838 If set to true, enable `-n` option by default.
1841 If set to true, enable the `--column` option by default.
1844 Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
1845 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the `--basic-regexp`, `--extended-regexp`,
1846 `--fixed-strings`, or `--perl-regexp` option accordingly, while the
1847 value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
1849 grep.extendedRegexp::
1850 If set to true, enable `--extended-regexp` option by default. This
1851 option is ignored when the `grep.patternType` option is set to a value
1852 other than 'default'.
1855 Number of grep worker threads to use.
1856 See `grep.threads` in linkgit:git-grep[1] for more information.
1858 grep.fallbackToNoIndex::
1859 If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep
1860 is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
1863 Use this custom program instead of "`gpg`" found on `$PATH` when
1864 making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the
1865 same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached
1866 signature, "`gpg --verify $file - <$signature`" is run, and the
1867 program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with
1868 code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the
1869 standard input of "`gpg -bsau $key`" is fed with the contents to be
1870 signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its
1873 gui.commitMsgWidth::
1874 Defines how wide the commit message window is in the
1875 linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
1878 Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff
1879 made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
1881 gui.displayUntracked::
1882 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] shows untracked files
1883 in the file list. The default is "true".
1886 Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
1887 file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
1888 It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute
1889 for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
1890 If this option is not set, the tools default to the
1893 gui.matchTrackingBranch::
1894 Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should
1895 default to tracking remote branches with matching names or
1896 not. Default: "false".
1898 gui.newBranchTemplate::
1899 Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the
1902 gui.pruneDuringFetch::
1903 "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when
1904 performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
1907 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] should trust the file modification
1908 timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.
1910 gui.spellingDictionary::
1911 Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in
1912 the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned
1916 If true, 'git gui blame' uses `-C` instead of `-C -C` for original
1917 location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge
1918 repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.
1920 gui.copyBlameThreshold::
1921 Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location
1922 detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the
1923 linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection.
1925 gui.blamehistoryctx::
1926 Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in
1927 linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History
1928 Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this
1929 variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.
1931 guitool.<name>.cmd::
1932 Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item
1933 of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is
1934 mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of
1935 the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of
1936 the tool as `GIT_GUITOOL`, the name of the currently selected file as
1937 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if
1938 the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty).
1940 guitool.<name>.needsFile::
1941 Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees
1942 that 'FILENAME' is not empty.
1944 guitool.<name>.noConsole::
1945 Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its
1948 guitool.<name>.noRescan::
1949 Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool
1952 guitool.<name>.confirm::
1953 Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
1955 guitool.<name>.argPrompt::
1956 Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool
1957 through the `ARGS` environment variable. Since requesting an
1958 argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect
1959 if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1',
1960 the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact
1961 value of the variable is used.
1963 guitool.<name>.revPrompt::
1964 Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
1965 `REVISION` environment variable. In other aspects this option
1966 is similar to 'argPrompt', and can be used together with it.
1968 guitool.<name>.revUnmerged::
1969 Show only unmerged branches in the 'revPrompt' subdialog.
1970 This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not
1971 for things like checkout or reset.
1973 guitool.<name>.title::
1974 Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default
1977 guitool.<name>.prompt::
1978 Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of
1979 the dialog, before subsections for 'argPrompt' and 'revPrompt'.
1980 The default value includes the actual command.
1983 Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the
1984 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
1987 Override the default help format used by linkgit:git-help[1].
1988 Values 'man', 'info', 'web' and 'html' are supported. 'man' is
1989 the default. 'web' and 'html' are the same.
1992 Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after
1993 waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more
1994 than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing
1995 will be executed. If the value of this option is negative,
1996 the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the
1997 value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed.
1998 This is the default.
2001 Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File system paths
2002 and URLs are supported. HTML pages will be prefixed with this path when
2003 help is displayed in the 'web' format. This defaults to the documentation
2004 path of your Git installation.
2007 Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy',
2008 'https_proxy', and 'all_proxy' environment variables (see `curl(1)`). In
2009 addition to the syntax understood by curl, it is possible to specify a
2010 proxy string with a user name but no password, in which case git will
2011 attempt to acquire one in the same way it does for other credentials. See
2012 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information. The syntax thus is
2013 '[protocol://][user[:password]@]proxyhost[:port]'. This can be overridden
2014 on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy
2016 http.proxyAuthMethod::
2017 Set the method with which to authenticate against the HTTP proxy. This
2018 only takes effect if the configured proxy string contains a user name part
2019 (i.e. is of the form 'user@host' or 'user@host:port'). This can be
2020 overridden on a per-remote basis; see `remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod`.
2021 Both can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD` environment
2022 variable. Possible values are:
2025 * `anyauth` - Automatically pick a suitable authentication method. It is
2026 assumed that the proxy answers an unauthenticated request with a 407
2027 status code and one or more Proxy-authenticate headers with supported
2028 authentication methods. This is the default.
2029 * `basic` - HTTP Basic authentication
2030 * `digest` - HTTP Digest authentication; this prevents the password from being
2031 transmitted to the proxy in clear text
2032 * `negotiate` - GSS-Negotiate authentication (compare the --negotiate option
2034 * `ntlm` - NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of `curl(1)`)
2038 Attempt authentication without seeking a username or password. This
2039 can be used to attempt GSS-Negotiate authentication without specifying
2040 a username in the URL, as libcurl normally requires a username for
2044 Control GSSAPI credential delegation. The delegation is disabled
2045 by default in libcurl since version 7.21.7. Set parameter to tell
2046 the server what it is allowed to delegate when it comes to user
2047 credentials. Used with GSS/kerberos. Possible values are:
2050 * `none` - Don't allow any delegation.
2051 * `policy` - Delegates if and only if the OK-AS-DELEGATE flag is set in the
2052 Kerberos service ticket, which is a matter of realm policy.
2053 * `always` - Unconditionally allow the server to delegate.
2058 Pass an additional HTTP header when communicating with a server. If
2059 more than one such entry exists, all of them are added as extra
2060 headers. To allow overriding the settings inherited from the system
2061 config, an empty value will reset the extra headers to the empty list.
2064 The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
2065 which should be used
2066 in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
2067 of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
2068 the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see `curl(1)`).
2069 NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
2070 input unless http.saveCookies is set.
2073 If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by
2074 http.cookieFile. Has no effect if http.cookieFile is unset.
2077 The SSL version to use when negotiating an SSL connection, if you
2078 want to force the default. The available and default version
2079 depend on whether libcurl was built against NSS or OpenSSL and the
2080 particular configuration of the crypto library in use. Internally
2081 this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_VERSION' option; see the libcurl
2082 documentation for more details on the format of this option and
2083 for the ssl version supported. Actually the possible values of
2095 Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_VERSION` environment variable.
2096 To force git to use libcurl's default ssl version and ignore any
2097 explicit http.sslversion option, set `GIT_SSL_VERSION` to the
2100 http.sslCipherList::
2101 A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection.
2102 The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl was built against
2103 NSS or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto
2104 library in use. Internally this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST'
2105 option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format
2108 Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` environment variable.
2109 To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list and ignore any
2110 explicit http.sslCipherList option, set `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` to the
2114 Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
2115 over HTTPS. Defaults to true. Can be overridden by the
2116 `GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY` environment variable.
2119 File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
2120 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CERT` environment
2124 File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing
2125 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_KEY` environment
2128 http.sslCertPasswordProtected::
2129 Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise
2130 OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the
2131 certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the
2132 `GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED` environment variable.
2135 File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when
2136 fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
2137 `GIT_SSL_CAINFO` environment variable.
2140 Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer
2141 with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden
2142 by the `GIT_SSL_CAPATH` environment variable.
2145 Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of
2146 a PEM or DER encoded public key file or a string starting with
2147 'sha256//' followed by the base64 encoded sha256 hash of the
2148 public key. See also libcurl 'CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY'. git will
2149 exit with an error if this option is set but not supported by
2153 Attempt to use AUTH SSL/TLS and encrypted data transfers
2154 when connecting via regular FTP protocol. This might be needed
2155 if the FTP server requires it for security reasons or you wish
2156 to connect securely whenever remote FTP server supports it.
2157 Default is false since it might trigger certificate verification
2158 errors on misconfigured servers.
2161 How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden
2162 by the `GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS` environment variable. Default is 5.
2165 The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across
2166 requests. They will not be ended with curl_easy_cleanup() until
2167 http_cleanup() is invoked. If USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this
2168 value will be capped at 1. Defaults to 1.
2171 Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP
2172 transports when POSTing data to the remote system.
2173 For requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and
2174 Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a
2175 massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is
2176 sufficient for most requests.
2178 http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
2179 If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'
2180 for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.
2181 Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT` and
2182 `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME` environment variables.
2185 A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
2186 This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
2187 support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the `GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV`
2188 environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
2191 The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default
2192 value represents the version of the client Git such as git/1.7.1.
2193 This option allows you to override this value to a more common value
2194 such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if
2195 connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
2196 of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
2197 Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT` environment variable.
2199 http.followRedirects::
2200 Whether git should follow HTTP redirects. If set to `true`, git
2201 will transparently follow any redirect issued by a server it
2202 encounters. If set to `false`, git will treat all redirects as
2203 errors. If set to `initial`, git will follow redirects only for
2204 the initial request to a remote, but not for subsequent
2205 follow-up HTTP requests. Since git uses the redirected URL as
2206 the base for the follow-up requests, this is generally
2207 sufficient. The default is `initial`.
2210 Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
2211 For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config key is
2212 compared to that of the URL, in the following order:
2215 . Scheme (e.g., `https` in `https://example.com/`). This field
2216 must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
2218 . Host/domain name (e.g., `example.com` in `https://example.com/`).
2219 This field must match between the config key and the URL. It is
2220 possible to specify a `*` as part of the host name to match all subdomains
2221 at this level. `https://*.example.com/` for example would match
2222 `https://foo.example.com/`, but not `https://foo.bar.example.com/`.
2224 . Port number (e.g., `8080` in `http://example.com:8080/`).
2225 This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
2226 Omitted port numbers are automatically converted to the correct
2227 default for the scheme before matching.
2229 . Path (e.g., `repo.git` in `https://example.com/repo.git`). The
2230 path field of the config key must match the path field of the URL
2231 either exactly or as a prefix of slash-delimited path elements. This means
2232 a config key with path `foo/` matches URL path `foo/bar`. A prefix can only
2233 match on a slash (`/`) boundary. Longer matches take precedence (so a config
2234 key with path `foo/bar` is a better match to URL path `foo/bar` than a config
2235 key with just path `foo/`).
2237 . User name (e.g., `user` in `https://user@example.com/repo.git`). If
2238 the config key has a user name it must match the user name in the
2239 URL exactly. If the config key does not have a user name, that
2240 config key will match a URL with any user name (including none),
2241 but at a lower precedence than a config key with a user name.
2244 The list above is ordered by decreasing precedence; a URL that matches
2245 a config key's path is preferred to one that matches its user name. For example,
2246 if the URL is `https://user@example.com/foo/bar` a config key match of
2247 `https://example.com/foo` will be preferred over a config key match of
2248 `https://user@example.com`.
2250 All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part,
2251 if embedded in the URL, is always ignored for matching purposes) so that
2252 equivalent URLs that are simply spelled differently will match properly.
2253 Environment variable settings always override any matches. The URLs that are
2254 matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs
2255 visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching.
2258 By default, Git determines the command line arguments to use
2259 based on the basename of the configured SSH command (configured
2260 using the environment variable `GIT_SSH` or `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` or
2261 the config setting `core.sshCommand`). If the basename is
2262 unrecognized, Git will attempt to detect support of OpenSSH
2263 options by first invoking the configured SSH command with the
2264 `-G` (print configuration) option and will subsequently use
2265 OpenSSH options (if that is successful) or no options besides
2266 the host and remote command (if it fails).
2268 The config variable `ssh.variant` can be set to override this detection.
2269 Valid values are `ssh` (to use OpenSSH options), `plink`, `putty`,
2270 `tortoiseplink`, `simple` (no options except the host and remote command).
2271 The default auto-detection can be explicitly requested using the value
2272 `auto`. Any other value is treated as `ssh`. This setting can also be
2273 overridden via the environment variable `GIT_SSH_VARIANT`.
2275 The current command-line parameters used for each variant are as
2280 * `ssh` - [-p port] [-4] [-6] [-o option] [username@]host command
2282 * `simple` - [username@]host command
2284 * `plink` or `putty` - [-P port] [-4] [-6] [username@]host command
2286 * `tortoiseplink` - [-P port] [-4] [-6] -batch [username@]host command
2290 Except for the `simple` variant, command-line parameters are likely to
2291 change as git gains new features.
2293 i18n.commitEncoding::
2294 Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself
2295 does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when
2296 importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history
2297 browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other
2298 porcelains). See e.g. linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]. Defaults to 'utf-8'.
2300 i18n.logOutputEncoding::
2301 Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when
2302 running 'git log' and friends.
2305 The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
2306 in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
2309 Specify the version with which new index files should be
2310 initialized. This does not affect existing repositories.
2313 Specify the directory from which templates will be copied.
2314 (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
2317 Specify the program that will be used to browse your working
2318 repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2321 The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working
2322 repository. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2325 If true the web server started by linkgit:git-instaweb[1] will
2326 be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
2328 instaweb.modulePath::
2329 The default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use
2330 instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd
2334 The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
2335 linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2337 interactive.singleKey::
2338 In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter
2339 input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter).
2340 Currently this is used by the `--patch` mode of
2341 linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], linkgit:git-commit[1],
2342 linkgit:git-reset[1], and linkgit:git-stash[1]. Note that this
2343 setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input
2344 is not available; requires the Perl module Term::ReadKey.
2346 interactive.diffFilter::
2347 When an interactive command (such as `git add --patch`) shows
2348 a colorized diff, git will pipe the diff through the shell
2349 command defined by this configuration variable. The command may
2350 mark up the diff further for human consumption, provided that it
2351 retains a one-to-one correspondence with the lines in the
2352 original diff. Defaults to disabled (no filtering).
2355 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2356 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--abbrev-commit`. You may
2357 override this option with `--no-abbrev-commit`.
2360 Set the default date-time mode for the 'log' command.
2361 Setting a value for log.date is similar to using 'git log''s
2362 `--date` option. See linkgit:git-log[1] for details.
2365 Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log
2366 command. If 'short' is specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/',
2367 'refs/tags/' and 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is
2368 specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed.
2369 If 'auto' is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal,
2370 the ref names are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref
2371 names are shown. This is the same as the `--decorate` option
2375 If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when
2376 a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`,
2377 i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well
2378 on non-linear history.
2381 A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to draw
2382 history lines in `git log --graph`.
2385 If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event.
2386 This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.
2387 Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which
2388 normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
2391 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2392 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--show-signature`.
2395 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2396 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`.
2399 If true, makes linkgit:git-mailinfo[1] (and therefore
2400 linkgit:git-am[1]) act by default as if the --scissors option
2401 was provided on the command-line. When active, this features
2402 removes everything from the message body before a scissors
2403 line (i.e. consisting mainly of ">8", "8<" and "-").
2406 The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default
2407 mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded
2408 first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable.
2409 The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository
2410 subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself.
2411 See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1].
2414 Like `mailmap.file`, but consider the value as a reference to a
2415 blob in the repository. If both `mailmap.file` and
2416 `mailmap.blob` are given, both are parsed, with entries from
2417 `mailmap.file` taking precedence. In a bare repository, this
2418 defaults to `HEAD:.mailmap`. In a non-bare repository, it
2422 Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the
2423 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
2426 Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The
2427 specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page
2428 passed as argument. (See linkgit:git-help[1].)
2431 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
2432 display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
2434 include::merge-config.txt[]
2436 mergetool.<tool>.path::
2437 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
2438 your tool is not in the PATH.
2440 mergetool.<tool>.cmd::
2441 Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The
2442 specified command is evaluated in shell with the following
2443 variables available: 'BASE' is the name of a temporary file
2444 containing the common base of the files to be merged, if available;
2445 'LOCAL' is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of
2446 the file on the current branch; 'REMOTE' is the name of a temporary
2447 file containing the contents of the file from the branch being
2448 merged; 'MERGED' contains the name of the file to which the merge
2449 tool should write the results of a successful merge.
2451 mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode::
2452 For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of
2453 the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was
2454 successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file
2455 timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful
2456 if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to
2457 indicate the success of the merge.
2459 mergetool.meld.hasOutput::
2460 Older versions of `meld` do not support the `--output` option.
2461 Git will attempt to detect whether `meld` supports `--output`
2462 by inspecting the output of `meld --help`. Configuring
2463 `mergetool.meld.hasOutput` will make Git skip these checks and
2464 use the configured value instead. Setting `mergetool.meld.hasOutput`
2465 to `true` tells Git to unconditionally use the `--output` option,
2466 and `false` avoids using `--output`.
2468 mergetool.keepBackup::
2469 After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers
2470 can be saved as a file with a `.orig` extension. If this variable
2471 is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to
2472 `true` (i.e. keep the backup files).
2474 mergetool.keepTemporaries::
2475 When invoking a custom merge tool, Git uses a set of temporary
2476 files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this
2477 variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be
2478 preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has
2479 exited. Defaults to `false`.
2481 mergetool.writeToTemp::
2482 Git writes temporary 'BASE', 'LOCAL', and 'REMOTE' versions of
2483 conflicting files in the worktree by default. Git will attempt
2484 to use a temporary directory for these files when set `true`.
2485 Defaults to `false`.
2488 Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
2490 notes.mergeStrategy::
2491 Which merge strategy to choose by default when resolving notes
2492 conflicts. Must be one of `manual`, `ours`, `theirs`, `union`, or
2493 `cat_sort_uniq`. Defaults to `manual`. See "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES"
2494 section of linkgit:git-notes[1] for more information on each strategy.
2496 notes.<name>.mergeStrategy::
2497 Which merge strategy to choose when doing a notes merge into
2498 refs/notes/<name>. This overrides the more general
2499 "notes.mergeStrategy". See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section in
2500 linkgit:git-notes[1] for more information on the available strategies.
2503 The (fully qualified) refname from which to show notes when
2504 showing commit messages. The value of this variable can be set
2505 to a glob, in which case notes from all matching refs will be
2506 shown. You may also specify this configuration variable
2507 several times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not
2508 exist, but a glob that does not match any refs is silently
2511 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF`
2512 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
2515 The effective value of "core.notesRef" (possibly overridden by
2516 GIT_NOTES_REF) is also implicitly added to the list of refs to be
2519 notes.rewrite.<command>::
2520 When rewriting commits with <command> (currently `amend` or
2521 `rebase`) and this variable is set to `true`, Git
2522 automatically copies your notes from the original to the
2523 rewritten commit. Defaults to `true`, but see
2524 "notes.rewriteRef" below.
2527 When copying notes during a rewrite (see the
2528 "notes.rewrite.<command>" option), determines what to do if
2529 the target commit already has a note. Must be one of
2530 `overwrite`, `concatenate`, `cat_sort_uniq`, or `ignore`.
2531 Defaults to `concatenate`.
2533 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE`
2534 environment variable.
2537 When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully
2538 qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. The ref may be a
2539 glob, in which case notes in all matching refs will be copied.
2540 You may also specify this configuration several times.
2542 Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
2543 enable note rewriting. Set it to `refs/notes/commits` to enable
2544 rewriting for the default commit notes.
2546 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`
2547 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
2551 The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
2552 window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
2555 The maximum delta depth used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
2556 maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
2557 Maximum value is 4095.
2560 The maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread
2561 in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for pack window memory when
2562 no limit is given on the command line. The value can be
2563 suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". When left unconfigured (or
2564 set explicitly to 0), there will be no limit.
2567 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
2568 in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
2569 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
2570 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
2571 not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
2572 compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
2575 Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
2576 all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
2577 to linkgit:git-repack[1].
2579 pack.deltaCacheSize::
2580 The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in
2581 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] before writing them out to a pack.
2582 This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not
2583 having to recompute the final delta result once the best match
2584 for all objects is found. Repacking large repositories on machines
2585 which are tight with memory might be badly impacted by this though,
2586 especially if this cache pushes the system into swapping.
2587 A value of 0 means no limit. The smallest size of 1 byte may be
2588 used to virtually disable this cache. Defaults to 256 MiB.
2590 pack.deltaCacheLimit::
2591 The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in
2592 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. This cache is used to speed up the
2593 writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta
2594 result once the best match for all objects is found.
2595 Defaults to 1000. Maximum value is 65535.
2598 Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best
2599 delta matches. This requires that linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
2600 be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a
2601 warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
2602 machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window
2603 is however multiplied by the number of threads.
2604 Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
2605 and set the number of threads accordingly.
2608 Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for
2609 legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for
2610 the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB
2611 as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted
2612 packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced
2613 and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is
2616 If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 `*.idx` file,
2617 cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http")
2618 that will copy both `*.pack` file and corresponding `*.idx` file from the
2619 other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your
2620 older version of Git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,
2621 you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate
2624 pack.packSizeLimit::
2625 The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects
2626 packing to a file when repacking, i.e. the git:// protocol
2627 is unaffected. It can be overridden by the `--max-pack-size`
2628 option of linkgit:git-repack[1]. Reaching this limit results
2629 in the creation of multiple packfiles; which in turn prevents
2630 bitmaps from being created.
2631 The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB.
2632 The default is unlimited.
2633 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are
2637 When true, git will use pack bitmaps (if available) when packing
2638 to stdout (e.g., during the server side of a fetch). Defaults to
2639 true. You should not generally need to turn this off unless
2640 you are debugging pack bitmaps.
2642 pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated)::
2643 This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`.
2645 pack.writeBitmapHashCache::
2646 When true, git will include a "hash cache" section in the bitmap
2647 index (if one is written). This cache can be used to feed git's
2648 delta heuristics, potentially leading to better deltas between
2649 bitmapped and non-bitmapped objects (e.g., when serving a fetch
2650 between an older, bitmapped pack and objects that have been
2651 pushed since the last gc). The downside is that it consumes 4
2652 bytes per object of disk space, and that JGit's bitmap
2653 implementation does not understand it, causing it to complain if
2654 Git and JGit are used on the same repository. Defaults to false.
2657 If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the
2658 output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty.
2659 Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the
2660 pager specified by the value of `pager.<cmd>`. If `--paginate`
2661 or `--no-pager` is specified on the command line, it takes
2662 precedence over this option. To disable pagination for all
2663 commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`.
2666 Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
2667 linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just
2668 as the built-in pretty formats could. For example,
2669 running `git config pretty.changelog "format:* %H %s"`
2670 would cause the invocation `git log --pretty=changelog`
2671 to be equivalent to running `git log "--pretty=format:* %H %s"`.
2672 Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format
2673 will be silently ignored.
2676 If set, provide a user defined default policy for all protocols which
2677 don't explicitly have a policy (`protocol.<name>.allow`). By default,
2678 if unset, known-safe protocols (http, https, git, ssh, file) have a
2679 default policy of `always`, known-dangerous protocols (ext) have a
2680 default policy of `never`, and all other protocols have a default
2681 policy of `user`. Supported policies:
2685 * `always` - protocol is always able to be used.
2687 * `never` - protocol is never able to be used.
2689 * `user` - protocol is only able to be used when `GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER` is
2690 either unset or has a value of 1. This policy should be used when you want a
2691 protocol to be directly usable by the user but don't want it used by commands which
2692 execute clone/fetch/push commands without user input, e.g. recursive
2693 submodule initialization.
2697 protocol.<name>.allow::
2698 Set a policy to be used by protocol `<name>` with clone/fetch/push
2699 commands. See `protocol.allow` above for the available policies.
2701 The protocol names currently used by git are:
2704 - `file`: any local file-based path (including `file://` URLs,
2707 - `git`: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP
2708 connection (or proxy, if configured)
2710 - `ssh`: git over ssh (including `host:path` syntax,
2713 - `http`: git over http, both "smart http" and "dumb http".
2714 Note that this does _not_ include `https`; if you want to configure
2715 both, you must do so individually.
2717 - any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use
2718 `hg` to allow the `git-remote-hg` helper)
2722 Experimental. If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a
2723 server using the specified protocol version. If unset, no
2724 attempt will be made by the client to communicate using a
2725 particular protocol version, this results in protocol version 0
2731 * `0` - the original wire protocol.
2733 * `1` - the original wire protocol with the addition of a version string
2734 in the initial response from the server.
2739 By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when merging
2740 a commit that is a descendant of the current commit. Instead, the
2741 tip of the current branch is fast-forwarded. When set to `false`,
2742 this variable tells Git to create an extra merge commit in such
2743 a case (equivalent to giving the `--no-ff` option from the command
2744 line). When set to `only`, only such fast-forward merges are
2745 allowed (equivalent to giving the `--ff-only` option from the
2746 command line). This setting overrides `merge.ff` when pulling.
2749 When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead
2750 of merging the default branch from the default remote when "git
2751 pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a
2754 When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase'
2755 so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
2756 linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
2758 When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
2759 so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
2760 by running 'git pull'.
2762 When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
2764 *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
2765 it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
2769 The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
2773 The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
2776 Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is
2777 explicitly given. Different values are well-suited for
2778 specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central workflow
2779 (i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination),
2780 `upstream` is probably what you want. Possible values are:
2784 * `nothing` - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is
2785 explicitly given. This is primarily meant for people who want to
2786 avoid mistakes by always being explicit.
2788 * `current` - push the current branch to update a branch with the same
2789 name on the receiving end. Works in both central and non-central
2792 * `upstream` - push the current branch back to the branch whose
2793 changes are usually integrated into the current branch (which is
2794 called `@{upstream}`). This mode only makes sense if you are
2795 pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from
2796 (i.e. central workflow).
2798 * `tracking` - This is a deprecated synonym for `upstream`.
2800 * `simple` - in centralized workflow, work like `upstream` with an
2801 added safety to refuse to push if the upstream branch's name is
2802 different from the local one.
2804 When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally
2805 pull from, work as `current`. This is the safest option and is suited
2808 This mode has become the default in Git 2.0.
2810 * `matching` - push all branches having the same name on both ends.
2811 This makes the repository you are pushing to remember the set of
2812 branches that will be pushed out (e.g. if you always push 'maint'
2813 and 'master' there and no other branches, the repository you push
2814 to will have these two branches, and your local 'maint' and
2815 'master' will be pushed there).
2817 To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure _all_ the
2818 branches you would push out are ready to be pushed out before
2819 running 'git push', as the whole point of this mode is to allow you
2820 to push all of the branches in one go. If you usually finish work
2821 on only one branch and push out the result, while other branches are
2822 unfinished, this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not
2823 suitable for pushing into a shared central repository, as other
2824 people may add new branches there, or update the tip of existing
2825 branches outside your control.
2827 This used to be the default, but not since Git 2.0 (`simple` is the
2833 If set to true enable `--follow-tags` option by default. You
2834 may override this configuration at time of push by specifying
2838 May be set to a boolean value, or the string 'if-asked'. A true
2839 value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if `--signed` is
2840 passed to linkgit:git-push[1]. The string 'if-asked' causes
2841 pushes to be signed if the server supports it, as if
2842 `--signed=if-asked` is passed to 'git push'. A false value may
2843 override a value from a lower-priority config file. An explicit
2844 command-line flag always overrides this config option.
2847 When no `--push-option=<option>` argument is given from the
2848 command line, `git push` behaves as if each <value> of
2849 this variable is given as `--push-option=<value>`.
2851 This is a multi-valued variable, and an empty value can be used in a
2852 higher priority configuration file (e.g. `.git/config` in a
2853 repository) to clear the values inherited from a lower priority
2854 configuration files (e.g. `$HOME/.gitconfig`).
2871 This will result in only b (a and c are cleared).
2875 push.recurseSubmodules::
2876 Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed
2877 are available on a remote-tracking branch. If the value is 'check'
2878 then Git will verify that all submodule commits that changed in the
2879 revisions to be pushed are available on at least one remote of the
2880 submodule. If any commits are missing, the push will be aborted and
2881 exit with non-zero status. If the value is 'on-demand' then all
2882 submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be
2883 pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions
2884 it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If the value
2885 is 'no' then default behavior of ignoring submodules when pushing
2886 is retained. You may override this configuration at time of push by
2887 specifying '--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no'.
2889 include::rebase-config.txt[]
2891 receive.advertiseAtomic::
2892 By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push
2893 capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this
2894 capability, set this variable to false.
2896 receive.advertisePushOptions::
2897 When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options
2898 capability to its clients. False by default.
2901 By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
2902 receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop
2903 it by setting this variable to false.
2905 receive.certNonceSeed::
2906 By setting this variable to a string, `git receive-pack`
2907 will accept a `git push --signed` and verifies it by using
2908 a "nonce" protected by HMAC using this string as a secret
2911 receive.certNonceSlop::
2912 When a `git push --signed` sent a push certificate with a
2913 "nonce" that was issued by a receive-pack serving the same
2914 repository within this many seconds, export the "nonce"
2915 found in the certificate to `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE` to the
2916 hooks (instead of what the receive-pack asked the sending
2917 side to include). This may allow writing checks in
2918 `pre-receive` and `post-receive` a bit easier. Instead of
2919 checking `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP` environment variable
2920 that records by how many seconds the nonce is stale to
2921 decide if they want to accept the certificate, they only
2922 can check `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS` is `OK`.
2924 receive.fsckObjects::
2925 If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received
2926 objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a
2927 broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.
2928 Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
2931 receive.fsck.<msg-id>::
2932 When `receive.fsckObjects` is set to true, errors can be switched
2933 to warnings and vice versa by configuring the `receive.fsck.<msg-id>`
2934 setting where the `<msg-id>` is the fsck message ID and the value
2935 is one of `error`, `warn` or `ignore`. For convenience, fsck prefixes
2936 the error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid
2937 author/committer line - missing email" means that setting
2938 `receive.fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue.
2940 This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories
2941 which would not pass pushing when `receive.fsckObjects = true`, allowing
2942 the host to accept repositories with certain known issues but still catch
2945 receive.fsck.skipList::
2946 The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per
2947 line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
2948 be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project
2949 should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that
2950 can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
2951 Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
2954 After receiving the pack from the client, `receive-pack` may
2955 produce no output (if `--quiet` was specified) while processing
2956 the pack, causing some networks to drop the TCP connection.
2957 With this option set, if `receive-pack` does not transmit
2958 any data in this phase for `receive.keepAlive` seconds, it will
2959 send a short keepalive packet. The default is 5 seconds; set
2960 to 0 to disable keepalives entirely.
2962 receive.unpackLimit::
2963 If the number of objects received in a push is below this
2964 limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
2965 files. However if the number of received objects equals or
2966 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as
2967 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the
2968 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster,
2969 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
2970 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
2972 receive.maxInputSize::
2973 If the size of the incoming pack stream is larger than this
2974 limit, then git-receive-pack will error out, instead of
2975 accepting the pack file. If not set or set to 0, then the size
2978 receive.denyDeletes::
2979 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes
2980 the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push.
2982 receive.denyDeleteCurrent::
2983 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that
2984 deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
2986 receive.denyCurrentBranch::
2987 If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update
2988 to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
2989 Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD
2990 out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn",
2991 print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to
2992 proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no
2993 message. Defaults to "refuse".
2995 Another option is "updateInstead" which will update the working
2996 tree if pushing into the current branch. This option is
2997 intended for synchronizing working directories when one side is not easily
2998 accessible via interactive ssh (e.g. a live web site, hence the requirement
2999 that the working directory be clean). This mode also comes in handy when
3000 developing inside a VM to test and fix code on different Operating Systems.
3002 By default, "updateInstead" will refuse the push if the working tree or
3003 the index have any difference from the HEAD, but the `push-to-checkout`
3004 hook can be used to customize this. See linkgit:githooks[5].
3006 receive.denyNonFastForwards::
3007 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is
3008 not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push,
3009 even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is
3010 set when initializing a shared repository.
3013 This variable is the same as `transfer.hideRefs`, but applies
3014 only to `receive-pack` (and so affects pushes, but not fetches).
3015 An attempt to update or delete a hidden ref by `git push` is
3018 receive.updateServerInfo::
3019 If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info
3020 after receiving data from git-push and updating refs.
3022 receive.shallowUpdate::
3023 If set to true, .git/shallow can be updated when new refs
3024 require new shallow roots. Otherwise those refs are rejected.
3026 remote.pushDefault::
3027 The remote to push to by default. Overrides
3028 `branch.<name>.remote` for all branches, and is overridden by
3029 `branch.<name>.pushRemote` for specific branches.
3032 The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or
3033 linkgit:git-push[1].
3035 remote.<name>.pushurl::
3036 The push URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-push[1].
3038 remote.<name>.proxy::
3039 For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL to
3040 the proxy to use for that remote. Set to the empty string to
3041 disable proxying for that remote.
3043 remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod::
3044 For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the method to use for
3045 authenticating against the proxy in use (probably set in
3046 `remote.<name>.proxy`). See `http.proxyAuthMethod`.
3048 remote.<name>.fetch::
3049 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-fetch[1]. See
3050 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3052 remote.<name>.push::
3053 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-push[1]. See
3054 linkgit:git-push[1].
3056 remote.<name>.mirror::
3057 If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave
3058 as if the `--mirror` option was given on the command line.
3060 remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate::
3061 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
3062 using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
3063 linkgit:git-remote[1].
3065 remote.<name>.skipFetchAll::
3066 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
3067 using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
3068 linkgit:git-remote[1].
3070 remote.<name>.receivepack::
3071 The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See
3072 option --receive-pack of linkgit:git-push[1].
3074 remote.<name>.uploadpack::
3075 The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See
3076 option --upload-pack of linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1].
3078 remote.<name>.tagOpt::
3079 Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag following when
3080 fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to --tags will fetch every
3081 tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote
3082 branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can
3083 override this setting. See options --tags and --no-tags of
3084 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3087 Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with
3088 the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper.
3090 remote.<name>.prune::
3091 When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also
3092 remove any remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the
3093 remote (as if the `--prune` option was given on the command line).
3094 Overrides `fetch.prune` settings, if any.
3096 remote.<name>.pruneTags::
3097 When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also
3098 remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote if pruning
3099 is activated in general via `remote.<name>.prune`, `fetch.prune` or
3100 `--prune`. Overrides `fetch.pruneTags` settings, if any.
3102 See also `remote.<name>.prune` and the PRUNING section of
3103 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3106 The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update
3107 <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1].
3109 repack.useDeltaBaseOffset::
3110 By default, linkgit:git-repack[1] creates packs that use
3111 delta-base offset. If you need to share your repository with
3112 Git older than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb
3113 protocol such as http, then you need to set this option to
3114 "false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the
3115 native protocol are unaffected by this option.
3117 repack.packKeptObjects::
3118 If set to true, makes `git repack` act as if
3119 `--pack-kept-objects` was passed. See linkgit:git-repack[1] for
3120 details. Defaults to `false` normally, but `true` if a bitmap
3121 index is being written (either via `--write-bitmap-index` or
3122 `repack.writeBitmaps`).
3124 repack.writeBitmaps::
3125 When true, git will write a bitmap index when packing all
3126 objects to disk (e.g., when `git repack -a` is run). This
3127 index can speed up the "counting objects" phase of subsequent
3128 packs created for clones and fetches, at the cost of some disk
3129 space and extra time spent on the initial repack. This has
3130 no effect if multiple packfiles are created.
3134 When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the
3135 resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using
3136 previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false.
3139 Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical
3140 conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they be
3141 encountered again. By default, linkgit:git-rerere[1] is
3142 enabled if there is an `rr-cache` directory under the
3143 `$GIT_DIR`, e.g. if "rerere" was previously used in the
3146 sendemail.identity::
3147 A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
3148 'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over
3149 values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is
3150 the value of `sendemail.identity`.
3152 sendemail.smtpEncryption::
3153 See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this
3154 setting is not subject to the 'identity' mechanism.
3156 sendemail.smtpssl (deprecated)::
3157 Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpEncryption = ssl'.
3159 sendemail.smtpsslcertpath::
3160 Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file).
3161 Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification.
3163 sendemail.<identity>.*::
3164 Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters
3165 found below, taking precedence over those when this
3166 identity is selected, through either the command-line or
3167 `sendemail.identity`.
3169 sendemail.aliasesFile::
3170 sendemail.aliasFileType::
3171 sendemail.annotate::
3175 sendemail.chainReplyTo::
3177 sendemail.envelopeSender::
3179 sendemail.multiEdit::
3180 sendemail.signedoffbycc::
3181 sendemail.smtpPass::
3182 sendemail.suppresscc::
3183 sendemail.suppressFrom::
3186 sendemail.smtpDomain::
3187 sendemail.smtpServer::
3188 sendemail.smtpServerPort::
3189 sendemail.smtpServerOption::
3190 sendemail.smtpUser::
3192 sendemail.transferEncoding::
3193 sendemail.validate::
3195 See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.
3197 sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)::
3198 Deprecated alias for `sendemail.signedoffbycc`.
3200 sendemail.smtpBatchSize::
3201 Number of messages to be sent per connection, after that a relogin
3202 will happen. If the value is 0 or undefined, send all messages in
3204 See also the `--batch-size` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
3206 sendemail.smtpReloginDelay::
3207 Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server.
3208 See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
3210 showbranch.default::
3211 The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
3212 See linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
3214 splitIndex.maxPercentChange::
3215 When the split index feature is used, this specifies the
3216 percent of entries the split index can contain compared to the
3217 total number of entries in both the split index and the shared
3218 index before a new shared index is written.
3219 The value should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0 then
3220 a new shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new
3221 shared index is never written.
3222 By default the value is 20, so a new shared index is written
3223 if the number of entries in the split index would be greater
3224 than 20 percent of the total number of entries.
3225 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
3227 splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire::
3228 When the split index feature is used, shared index files that
3229 were not modified since the time this variable specifies will
3230 be removed when a new shared index file is created. The value
3231 "now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses
3232 expiration altogether.
3233 The default value is "2.weeks.ago".
3234 Note that a shared index file is considered modified (for the
3235 purpose of expiration) each time a new split-index file is
3236 either created based on it or read from it.
3237 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
3239 status.relativePaths::
3240 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the
3241 current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths
3242 relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git
3246 Set to true to enable --short by default in linkgit:git-status[1].
3247 The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable.
3250 Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1].
3251 The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable.
3253 status.displayCommentPrefix::
3254 If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will insert a comment
3255 prefix before each output line (starting with
3256 `core.commentChar`, i.e. `#` by default). This was the
3257 behavior of linkgit:git-status[1] in Git 1.8.4 and previous.
3260 status.renameLimit::
3261 The number of files to consider when performing rename detection
3262 in linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1]. Defaults to
3263 the value of diff.renameLimit.
3266 Whether and how Git detects renames in linkgit:git-status[1] and
3267 linkgit:git-commit[1] . If set to "false", rename detection is
3268 disabled. If set to "true", basic rename detection is enabled.
3269 If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will detect copies, as well.
3270 Defaults to the value of diff.renames.
3273 If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will display the number of
3274 entries currently stashed away.
3277 status.showUntrackedFiles::
3278 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show
3279 files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which
3280 contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name
3281 only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all
3282 the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some
3283 systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays
3284 the untracked files. Possible values are:
3287 * `no` - Show no untracked files.
3288 * `normal` - Show untracked files and directories.
3289 * `all` - Show also individual files in untracked directories.
3292 If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'.
3293 This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option
3294 of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1].
3296 status.submoduleSummary::
3298 If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an
3299 unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a
3300 summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see
3301 --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note
3302 that the summary output command will be suppressed for all
3303 submodules when `diff.ignoreSubmodules` is set to 'all' or only
3304 for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. The only
3305 exception to that rule is that status and commit will show staged
3306 submodule changes. To
3307 also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use
3308 the --ignore-submodules=dirty command-line option or the 'git
3309 submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does
3310 not honor these settings.
3313 If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an
3314 option will show the stash entry in patch form. Defaults to false.
3315 See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1].
3318 If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an
3319 option will show diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to true.
3320 See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1].
3322 submodule.<name>.url::
3323 The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules
3324 file to the git config via 'git submodule init'. The user can change
3325 the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via 'git submodule
3326 update'. If neither submodule.<name>.active or submodule.active are
3327 set, the presence of this variable is used as a fallback to indicate
3328 whether the submodule is of interest to git commands.
3329 See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
3331 submodule.<name>.update::
3332 The method by which a submodule is updated by 'git submodule update',
3333 which is the only affected command, others such as
3334 'git checkout --recurse-submodules' are unaffected. It exists for
3335 historical reasons, when 'git submodule' was the only command to
3336 interact with submodules; settings like `submodule.active`
3337 and `pull.rebase` are more specific. It is populated by
3338 `git submodule init` from the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file.
3339 See description of 'update' command in linkgit:git-submodule[1].
3341 submodule.<name>.branch::
3342 The remote branch name for a submodule, used by `git submodule
3343 update --remote`. Set this option to override the value found in
3344 the `.gitmodules` file. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and
3345 linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
3347 submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
3348 This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this
3349 submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
3350 command-line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
3351 This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
3354 submodule.<name>.ignore::
3355 Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
3356 a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
3357 modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and
3358 commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes
3359 to the submodules work tree and
3360 takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
3361 recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
3362 let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
3363 Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
3364 submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed.
3365 This setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule,
3366 both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
3367 "--ignore-submodules" option. The 'git submodule' commands are not
3368 affected by this setting.
3370 submodule.<name>.active::
3371 Boolean value indicating if the submodule is of interest to git
3372 commands. This config option takes precedence over the
3373 submodule.active config option. See linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for
3377 A repeated field which contains a pathspec used to match against a
3378 submodule's path to determine if the submodule is of interest to git
3379 commands. See linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for details.
3382 Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This
3383 applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option,
3387 submodule.fetchJobs::
3388 Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time.
3389 A positive integer allows up to that number of submodules fetched
3390 in parallel. A value of 0 will give some reasonable default.
3391 If unset, it defaults to 1.
3393 submodule.alternateLocation::
3394 Specifies how the submodules obtain alternates when submodules are
3395 cloned. Possible values are `no`, `superproject`.
3396 By default `no` is assumed, which doesn't add references. When the
3397 value is set to `superproject` the submodule to be cloned computes
3398 its alternates location relative to the superprojects alternate.
3400 submodule.alternateErrorStrategy::
3401 Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule
3402 as computed via `submodule.alternateLocation`. Possible values are
3403 `ignore`, `info`, `die`. Default is `die`.
3405 tag.forceSignAnnotated::
3406 A boolean to specify whether annotated tags created should be GPG signed.
3407 If `--annotate` is specified on the command line, it takes
3408 precedence over this option.
3411 This variable controls the sort ordering of tags when displayed by
3412 linkgit:git-tag[1]. Without the "--sort=<value>" option provided, the
3413 value of this variable will be used as the default.
3416 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
3417 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
3418 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
3419 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and
3420 linkgit:git-archive[1].
3422 transfer.fsckObjects::
3423 When `fetch.fsckObjects` or `receive.fsckObjects` are
3424 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
3428 String(s) `receive-pack` and `upload-pack` use to decide which
3429 refs to omit from their initial advertisements. Use more than
3430 one definition to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that is
3431 under the hierarchies listed in the value of this variable is
3432 excluded, and is hidden when responding to `git push` or `git
3433 fetch`. See `receive.hideRefs` and `uploadpack.hideRefs` for
3434 program-specific versions of this config.
3436 You may also include a `!` in front of the ref name to negate the entry,
3437 explicitly exposing it, even if an earlier entry marked it as hidden.
3438 If you have multiple hideRefs values, later entries override earlier ones
3439 (and entries in more-specific config files override less-specific ones).
3441 If a namespace is in use, the namespace prefix is stripped from each
3442 reference before it is matched against `transfer.hiderefs` patterns.
3443 For example, if `refs/heads/master` is specified in `transfer.hideRefs` and
3444 the current namespace is `foo`, then `refs/namespaces/foo/refs/heads/master`
3445 is omitted from the advertisements but `refs/heads/master` and
3446 `refs/namespaces/bar/refs/heads/master` are still advertised as so-called
3447 "have" lines. In order to match refs before stripping, add a `^` in front of
3448 the ref name. If you combine `!` and `^`, `!` must be specified first.
3450 Even if you hide refs, a client may still be able to steal the target
3451 objects via the techniques described in the "SECURITY" section of the
3452 linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's best to keep private data in a
3453 separate repository.
3455 transfer.unpackLimit::
3456 When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are
3457 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
3458 The default value is 100.
3460 uploadarchive.allowUnreachable::
3461 If true, allow clients to use `git archive --remote` to request
3462 any tree, whether reachable from the ref tips or not. See the
3463 discussion in the "SECURITY" section of
3464 linkgit:git-upload-archive[1] for more details. Defaults to
3467 uploadpack.hideRefs::
3468 This variable is the same as `transfer.hideRefs`, but applies
3469 only to `upload-pack` (and so affects only fetches, not pushes).
3470 An attempt to fetch a hidden ref by `git fetch` will fail. See
3471 also `uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant`.
3473 uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant::
3474 When `uploadpack.hideRefs` is in effect, allow `upload-pack`
3475 to accept a fetch request that asks for an object at the tip
3476 of a hidden ref (by default, such a request is rejected).
3477 See also `uploadpack.hideRefs`. Even if this is false, a client
3478 may be able to steal objects via the techniques described in the
3479 "SECURITY" section of the linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's
3480 best to keep private data in a separate repository.
3482 uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant::
3483 Allow `upload-pack` to accept a fetch request that asks for an
3484 object that is reachable from any ref tip. However, note that
3485 calculating object reachability is computationally expensive.
3486 Defaults to `false`. Even if this is false, a client may be able
3487 to steal objects via the techniques described in the "SECURITY"
3488 section of the linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's best to
3489 keep private data in a separate repository.
3491 uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant::
3492 Allow `upload-pack` to accept a fetch request that asks for any
3494 Defaults to `false`.
3496 uploadpack.keepAlive::
3497 When `upload-pack` has started `pack-objects`, there may be a
3498 quiet period while `pack-objects` prepares the pack. Normally
3499 it would output progress information, but if `--quiet` was used
3500 for the fetch, `pack-objects` will output nothing at all until
3501 the pack data begins. Some clients and networks may consider
3502 the server to be hung and give up. Setting this option instructs
3503 `upload-pack` to send an empty keepalive packet every
3504 `uploadpack.keepAlive` seconds. Setting this option to 0
3505 disables keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5 seconds.
3507 uploadpack.packObjectsHook::
3508 If this option is set, when `upload-pack` would run
3509 `git pack-objects` to create a packfile for a client, it will
3510 run this shell command instead. The `pack-objects` command and
3511 arguments it _would_ have run (including the `git pack-objects`
3512 at the beginning) are appended to the shell command. The stdin
3513 and stdout of the hook are treated as if `pack-objects` itself
3514 was run. I.e., `upload-pack` will feed input intended for
3515 `pack-objects` to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on
3518 uploadpack.allowFilter::
3519 If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support partial
3520 clone and partial fetch object filtering.
3522 Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the
3523 repository-level config (this is a safety measure against fetching from
3524 untrusted repositories).
3526 uploadpack.allowRefInWant::
3527 If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support the `ref-in-want`
3528 feature of the protocol version 2 `fetch` command. This feature
3529 is intended for the benefit of load-balanced servers which may
3530 not have the same view of what OIDs their refs point to due to
3533 url.<base>.insteadOf::
3534 Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
3535 start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a
3536 large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
3537 access methods, and some users need to use different access
3538 methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the
3539 equivalent URLs and have Git automatically rewrite the URL to
3540 the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
3541 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
3542 insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.
3544 Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the rewritten
3545 URL. If the rewrite changes the URL to use a custom protocol or remote
3546 helper, you may need to adjust the `protocol.*.allow` config to permit
3547 the request. In particular, protocols you expect to use for submodules
3548 must be set to `always` rather than the default of `user`. See the
3549 description of `protocol.allow` above.
3551 url.<base>.pushInsteadOf::
3552 Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to;
3553 instead, it will be rewritten to start with <base>, and the
3554 resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves
3555 a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
3556 access methods, some of which do not allow push, this feature
3557 allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have Git
3558 automatically use an appropriate URL to push, even for a
3559 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
3560 pushInsteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is
3561 used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will ignore this
3562 setting for that remote.
3565 Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.
3566 Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and
3567 `EMAIL` environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
3570 Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits.
3571 Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` and `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`
3572 environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
3574 user.useConfigOnly::
3575 Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`
3576 and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the
3577 configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses
3578 and would like to use a different one for each repository, then
3579 with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config
3580 along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before
3581 making new commits in a newly cloned repository.
3582 Defaults to `false`.
3585 If linkgit:git-tag[1] or linkgit:git-commit[1] is not selecting the
3586 key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or
3587 commit, you can override the default selection with this variable.
3588 This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter,
3589 so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports.
3591 versionsort.prereleaseSuffix (deprecated)::
3592 Deprecated alias for `versionsort.suffix`. Ignored if
3593 `versionsort.suffix` is set.
3595 versionsort.suffix::
3596 Even when version sort is used in linkgit:git-tag[1], tagnames
3597 with the same base version but different suffixes are still sorted
3598 lexicographically, resulting e.g. in prerelease tags appearing
3599 after the main release (e.g. "1.0-rc1" after "1.0"). This
3600 variable can be specified to determine the sorting order of tags
3601 with different suffixes.
3603 By specifying a single suffix in this variable, any tagname containing
3604 that suffix will appear before the corresponding main release. E.g. if
3605 the variable is set to "-rc", then all "1.0-rcX" tags will appear before
3606 "1.0". If specified multiple times, once per suffix, then the order of
3607 suffixes in the configuration will determine the sorting order of tagnames
3608 with those suffixes. E.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the
3609 configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be listed before any
3610 "1.0-rcX" tags. The placement of the main release tag relative to tags
3611 with various suffixes can be determined by specifying the empty suffix
3612 among those other suffixes. E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck" and
3613 "-bfs" appear in the configuration in this order, then all "v4.8-rcX" tags
3614 are listed first, followed by "v4.8", then "v4.8-ckX" and finally
3617 If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will
3618 be sorted according to the suffix which starts at the earliest position in
3619 the tagname. If more than one different matching suffixes start at
3620 that earliest position, then that tagname will be sorted according to the
3621 longest of those suffixes.
3622 The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined if they are
3623 in multiple config files.
3626 Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands.
3627 Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1]
3630 worktree.guessRemote::
3631 With `add`, if no branch argument, and neither of `-b` nor
3632 `-B` nor `--detach` are given, the command defaults to
3633 creating a new branch from HEAD. If `worktree.guessRemote` is
3634 set to true, `worktree add` tries to find a remote-tracking
3635 branch whose name uniquely matches the new branch name. If
3636 such a branch exists, it is checked out and set as "upstream"
3637 for the new branch. If no such match can be found, it falls
3638 back to creating a new branch from the current HEAD.