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.
1534 fetch.negotiationAlgorithm::
1535 Control how information about the commits in the local repository is
1536 sent when negotiating the contents of the packfile to be sent by the
1537 server. Set to "skipping" to use an algorithm that skips commits in an
1538 effort to converge faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary
1539 packfile; any other value instructs Git to use the default algorithm
1540 that never skips commits (unless the server has acknowledged it or one
1541 of its descendants).
1544 Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for
1545 'format-patch'. The value can also be a double quoted string
1546 which will enable attachments as the default and set the
1547 value as the boundary. See the --attach option in
1548 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1551 Provides the default value for the `--from` option to format-patch.
1552 Accepts a boolean value, or a name and email address. If false,
1553 format-patch defaults to `--no-from`, using commit authors directly in
1554 the "From:" field of patch mails. If true, format-patch defaults to
1555 `--from`, using your committer identity in the "From:" field of patch
1556 mails and including a "From:" field in the body of the patch mail if
1557 different. If set to a non-boolean value, format-patch uses that
1558 value instead of your committer identity. Defaults to false.
1561 A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch
1562 subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there
1563 is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all
1564 messages by setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered
1565 option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1568 Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted
1569 by mail. See linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1573 Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted
1574 by mail. See the --to and --cc options in
1575 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1577 format.subjectPrefix::
1578 The default for format-patch is to output files with the '[PATCH]'
1579 subject prefix. Use this variable to change that prefix.
1582 The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing
1583 the Git version number. Use this variable to change that default.
1584 Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress
1585 signature generation.
1587 format.signatureFile::
1588 Works just like format.signature except the contents of the
1589 file specified by this variable will be used as the signature.
1592 The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix
1593 `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
1594 include the dot if you want it).
1597 The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command,
1598 See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1],
1599 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1].
1602 The default threading style for 'git format-patch'. Can be
1603 a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading
1604 makes every mail a reply to the head of the series,
1605 where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the
1606 `--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order.
1607 `deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one.
1608 A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false
1609 value disables threading.
1612 A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of
1613 format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a
1614 patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have
1615 the rights to submit this work under the same open source license.
1616 Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion.
1618 format.coverLetter::
1619 A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when
1620 format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to
1621 generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch.
1623 format.outputDirectory::
1624 Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the
1625 current working directory.
1627 format.useAutoBase::
1628 A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of
1629 format-patch by default.
1631 filter.<driver>.clean::
1632 The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree
1633 file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
1636 filter.<driver>.smudge::
1637 The command which is used to convert the content of a blob
1638 object to a worktree file upon checkout. See
1639 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
1642 Allows overriding the message type (error, warn or ignore) of a
1643 specific message ID such as `missingEmail`.
1645 For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message ID,
1646 e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing email" means
1647 that setting `fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue.
1649 This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories
1650 which cannot be repaired without disruptive changes.
1653 The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per
1654 line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
1655 be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project
1656 should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that
1657 can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
1658 Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
1660 gc.aggressiveDepth::
1661 The depth parameter used in the delta compression
1662 algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
1665 gc.aggressiveWindow::
1666 The window size parameter used in the delta compression
1667 algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
1671 When there are approximately more than this many loose
1672 objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them.
1673 Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a
1674 light-weight garbage collection from time to time. The
1675 default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables it.
1678 When there are more than this many packs that are not
1679 marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc
1680 --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The
1681 default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
1684 Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background
1685 if the system supports it. Default is true.
1687 gc.bigPackThreshold::
1688 If non-zero, all packs larger than this limit are kept when
1689 `git gc` is run. This is very similar to `--keep-base-pack`
1690 except that all packs that meet the threshold are kept, not
1691 just the base pack. Defaults to zero. Common unit suffixes of
1692 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
1694 Note that if the number of kept packs is more than gc.autoPackLimit,
1695 this configuration variable is ignored, all packs except the base pack
1696 will be repacked. After this the number of packs should go below
1697 gc.autoPackLimit and gc.bigPackThreshold should be respected again.
1700 If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` won't run
1701 unless that file is more than 'gc.logExpiry' old. Default is
1702 "1.day". See `gc.pruneExpire` for more ways to specify its
1706 Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it
1707 unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb
1708 transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether
1709 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `notbare`
1710 to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a
1711 boolean value. The default is `true`.
1714 When 'git gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'.
1715 Override the grace period with this config variable. The value
1716 "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune
1717 unreachable objects immediately, or "never" may be used to
1718 suppress pruning. This feature helps prevent corruption when
1719 'git gc' runs concurrently with another process writing to the
1720 repository; see the "NOTES" section of linkgit:git-gc[1].
1722 gc.worktreePruneExpire::
1723 When 'git gc' is run, it calls
1724 'git worktree prune --expire 3.months.ago'.
1725 This config variable can be used to set a different grace
1726 period. The value "now" may be used to disable the grace
1727 period and prune `$GIT_DIR/worktrees` immediately, or "never"
1728 may be used to suppress pruning.
1731 gc.<pattern>.reflogExpire::
1732 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
1733 this time; defaults to 90 days. The value "now" expires all
1734 entries immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration
1735 altogether. With "<pattern>" (e.g.
1736 "refs/stash") in the middle the setting applies only to
1737 the refs that match the <pattern>.
1739 gc.reflogExpireUnreachable::
1740 gc.<pattern>.reflogExpireUnreachable::
1741 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
1742 this time and are not reachable from the current tip;
1743 defaults to 30 days. The value "now" expires all entries
1744 immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration altogether.
1745 With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash")
1746 in the middle, the setting applies only to the refs that
1747 match the <pattern>.
1750 Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are
1751 kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
1752 You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc.
1753 The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
1755 gc.rerereUnresolved::
1756 Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are
1757 kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
1758 You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc.
1759 The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
1761 gitcvs.commitMsgAnnotation::
1762 Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string
1763 to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator".
1766 Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository.
1767 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1770 Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs
1771 various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1773 gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
1774 If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion
1775 attributes for files to determine the `-k` modes to use. If
1776 the attributes force Git to treat a file as text,
1777 the `-k` mode will be left blank so CVS clients will
1778 treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file
1779 will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging
1780 the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow
1781 the file type to be determined, then `gitcvs.allBinary` is
1782 used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
1785 This is used if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` does not resolve
1786 the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all
1787 unresolved files are sent to the client in
1788 mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them
1789 as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it
1790 otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess",
1791 then the contents of the file are examined to decide if
1792 it is binary, similar to `core.autocrlf`.
1795 Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
1796 derived from the Git repository. The exact meaning depends on the
1797 used database driver, for SQLite (which is the default driver) this
1798 is a filename. Supports variable substitution (see
1799 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). May not contain semicolons (`;`).
1800 Default: '%Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite'
1803 Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver
1804 for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested
1805 with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with 'DBD::Pg', and
1806 reported *not* to work with 'DBD::mysql'. Experimental feature.
1807 May not contain double colons (`:`). Default: 'SQLite'.
1808 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1810 gitcvs.dbUser, gitcvs.dbPass::
1811 Database user and password. Only useful if setting `gitcvs.dbDriver`,
1812 since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords.
1813 'gitcvs.dbUser' supports variable substitution (see
1814 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).
1816 gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix::
1817 Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any
1818 database tables used, allowing a single database to be used
1819 for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see
1820 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic
1821 characters will be replaced with underscores.
1823 All gitcvs variables except for `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` and
1824 `gitcvs.allBinary` can also be specified as
1825 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
1826 is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
1830 gitweb.description::
1833 See linkgit:gitweb[1] for description.
1841 gitweb.remote_heads::
1844 See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for description.
1847 If set to true, enable `-n` option by default.
1850 If set to true, enable the `--column` option by default.
1853 Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
1854 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the `--basic-regexp`, `--extended-regexp`,
1855 `--fixed-strings`, or `--perl-regexp` option accordingly, while the
1856 value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
1858 grep.extendedRegexp::
1859 If set to true, enable `--extended-regexp` option by default. This
1860 option is ignored when the `grep.patternType` option is set to a value
1861 other than 'default'.
1864 Number of grep worker threads to use.
1865 See `grep.threads` in linkgit:git-grep[1] for more information.
1867 grep.fallbackToNoIndex::
1868 If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep
1869 is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
1872 Use this custom program instead of "`gpg`" found on `$PATH` when
1873 making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the
1874 same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached
1875 signature, "`gpg --verify $file - <$signature`" is run, and the
1876 program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with
1877 code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the
1878 standard input of "`gpg -bsau $key`" is fed with the contents to be
1879 signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its
1882 gui.commitMsgWidth::
1883 Defines how wide the commit message window is in the
1884 linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
1887 Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff
1888 made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
1890 gui.displayUntracked::
1891 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] shows untracked files
1892 in the file list. The default is "true".
1895 Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
1896 file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
1897 It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute
1898 for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
1899 If this option is not set, the tools default to the
1902 gui.matchTrackingBranch::
1903 Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should
1904 default to tracking remote branches with matching names or
1905 not. Default: "false".
1907 gui.newBranchTemplate::
1908 Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the
1911 gui.pruneDuringFetch::
1912 "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when
1913 performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
1916 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] should trust the file modification
1917 timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.
1919 gui.spellingDictionary::
1920 Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in
1921 the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned
1925 If true, 'git gui blame' uses `-C` instead of `-C -C` for original
1926 location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge
1927 repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.
1929 gui.copyBlameThreshold::
1930 Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location
1931 detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the
1932 linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection.
1934 gui.blamehistoryctx::
1935 Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in
1936 linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History
1937 Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this
1938 variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.
1940 guitool.<name>.cmd::
1941 Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item
1942 of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is
1943 mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of
1944 the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of
1945 the tool as `GIT_GUITOOL`, the name of the currently selected file as
1946 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if
1947 the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty).
1949 guitool.<name>.needsFile::
1950 Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees
1951 that 'FILENAME' is not empty.
1953 guitool.<name>.noConsole::
1954 Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its
1957 guitool.<name>.noRescan::
1958 Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool
1961 guitool.<name>.confirm::
1962 Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
1964 guitool.<name>.argPrompt::
1965 Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool
1966 through the `ARGS` environment variable. Since requesting an
1967 argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect
1968 if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1',
1969 the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact
1970 value of the variable is used.
1972 guitool.<name>.revPrompt::
1973 Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
1974 `REVISION` environment variable. In other aspects this option
1975 is similar to 'argPrompt', and can be used together with it.
1977 guitool.<name>.revUnmerged::
1978 Show only unmerged branches in the 'revPrompt' subdialog.
1979 This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not
1980 for things like checkout or reset.
1982 guitool.<name>.title::
1983 Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default
1986 guitool.<name>.prompt::
1987 Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of
1988 the dialog, before subsections for 'argPrompt' and 'revPrompt'.
1989 The default value includes the actual command.
1992 Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the
1993 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
1996 Override the default help format used by linkgit:git-help[1].
1997 Values 'man', 'info', 'web' and 'html' are supported. 'man' is
1998 the default. 'web' and 'html' are the same.
2001 Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after
2002 waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more
2003 than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing
2004 will be executed. If the value of this option is negative,
2005 the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the
2006 value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed.
2007 This is the default.
2010 Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File system paths
2011 and URLs are supported. HTML pages will be prefixed with this path when
2012 help is displayed in the 'web' format. This defaults to the documentation
2013 path of your Git installation.
2016 Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy',
2017 'https_proxy', and 'all_proxy' environment variables (see `curl(1)`). In
2018 addition to the syntax understood by curl, it is possible to specify a
2019 proxy string with a user name but no password, in which case git will
2020 attempt to acquire one in the same way it does for other credentials. See
2021 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information. The syntax thus is
2022 '[protocol://][user[:password]@]proxyhost[:port]'. This can be overridden
2023 on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy
2025 http.proxyAuthMethod::
2026 Set the method with which to authenticate against the HTTP proxy. This
2027 only takes effect if the configured proxy string contains a user name part
2028 (i.e. is of the form 'user@host' or 'user@host:port'). This can be
2029 overridden on a per-remote basis; see `remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod`.
2030 Both can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD` environment
2031 variable. Possible values are:
2034 * `anyauth` - Automatically pick a suitable authentication method. It is
2035 assumed that the proxy answers an unauthenticated request with a 407
2036 status code and one or more Proxy-authenticate headers with supported
2037 authentication methods. This is the default.
2038 * `basic` - HTTP Basic authentication
2039 * `digest` - HTTP Digest authentication; this prevents the password from being
2040 transmitted to the proxy in clear text
2041 * `negotiate` - GSS-Negotiate authentication (compare the --negotiate option
2043 * `ntlm` - NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of `curl(1)`)
2047 Attempt authentication without seeking a username or password. This
2048 can be used to attempt GSS-Negotiate authentication without specifying
2049 a username in the URL, as libcurl normally requires a username for
2053 Control GSSAPI credential delegation. The delegation is disabled
2054 by default in libcurl since version 7.21.7. Set parameter to tell
2055 the server what it is allowed to delegate when it comes to user
2056 credentials. Used with GSS/kerberos. Possible values are:
2059 * `none` - Don't allow any delegation.
2060 * `policy` - Delegates if and only if the OK-AS-DELEGATE flag is set in the
2061 Kerberos service ticket, which is a matter of realm policy.
2062 * `always` - Unconditionally allow the server to delegate.
2067 Pass an additional HTTP header when communicating with a server. If
2068 more than one such entry exists, all of them are added as extra
2069 headers. To allow overriding the settings inherited from the system
2070 config, an empty value will reset the extra headers to the empty list.
2073 The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
2074 which should be used
2075 in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
2076 of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
2077 the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see `curl(1)`).
2078 NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
2079 input unless http.saveCookies is set.
2082 If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by
2083 http.cookieFile. Has no effect if http.cookieFile is unset.
2086 The SSL version to use when negotiating an SSL connection, if you
2087 want to force the default. The available and default version
2088 depend on whether libcurl was built against NSS or OpenSSL and the
2089 particular configuration of the crypto library in use. Internally
2090 this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_VERSION' option; see the libcurl
2091 documentation for more details on the format of this option and
2092 for the ssl version supported. Actually the possible values of
2104 Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_VERSION` environment variable.
2105 To force git to use libcurl's default ssl version and ignore any
2106 explicit http.sslversion option, set `GIT_SSL_VERSION` to the
2109 http.sslCipherList::
2110 A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection.
2111 The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl was built against
2112 NSS or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto
2113 library in use. Internally this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST'
2114 option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format
2117 Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` environment variable.
2118 To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list and ignore any
2119 explicit http.sslCipherList option, set `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` to the
2123 Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
2124 over HTTPS. Defaults to true. Can be overridden by the
2125 `GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY` environment variable.
2128 File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
2129 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CERT` environment
2133 File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing
2134 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_KEY` environment
2137 http.sslCertPasswordProtected::
2138 Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise
2139 OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the
2140 certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the
2141 `GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED` environment variable.
2144 File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when
2145 fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
2146 `GIT_SSL_CAINFO` environment variable.
2149 Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer
2150 with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden
2151 by the `GIT_SSL_CAPATH` environment variable.
2154 Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of
2155 a PEM or DER encoded public key file or a string starting with
2156 'sha256//' followed by the base64 encoded sha256 hash of the
2157 public key. See also libcurl 'CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY'. git will
2158 exit with an error if this option is set but not supported by
2162 Attempt to use AUTH SSL/TLS and encrypted data transfers
2163 when connecting via regular FTP protocol. This might be needed
2164 if the FTP server requires it for security reasons or you wish
2165 to connect securely whenever remote FTP server supports it.
2166 Default is false since it might trigger certificate verification
2167 errors on misconfigured servers.
2170 How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden
2171 by the `GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS` environment variable. Default is 5.
2174 The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across
2175 requests. They will not be ended with curl_easy_cleanup() until
2176 http_cleanup() is invoked. If USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this
2177 value will be capped at 1. Defaults to 1.
2180 Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP
2181 transports when POSTing data to the remote system.
2182 For requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and
2183 Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a
2184 massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is
2185 sufficient for most requests.
2187 http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
2188 If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'
2189 for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.
2190 Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT` and
2191 `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME` environment variables.
2194 A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
2195 This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
2196 support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the `GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV`
2197 environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
2200 The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default
2201 value represents the version of the client Git such as git/1.7.1.
2202 This option allows you to override this value to a more common value
2203 such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if
2204 connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
2205 of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
2206 Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT` environment variable.
2208 http.followRedirects::
2209 Whether git should follow HTTP redirects. If set to `true`, git
2210 will transparently follow any redirect issued by a server it
2211 encounters. If set to `false`, git will treat all redirects as
2212 errors. If set to `initial`, git will follow redirects only for
2213 the initial request to a remote, but not for subsequent
2214 follow-up HTTP requests. Since git uses the redirected URL as
2215 the base for the follow-up requests, this is generally
2216 sufficient. The default is `initial`.
2219 Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
2220 For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config key is
2221 compared to that of the URL, in the following order:
2224 . Scheme (e.g., `https` in `https://example.com/`). This field
2225 must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
2227 . Host/domain name (e.g., `example.com` in `https://example.com/`).
2228 This field must match between the config key and the URL. It is
2229 possible to specify a `*` as part of the host name to match all subdomains
2230 at this level. `https://*.example.com/` for example would match
2231 `https://foo.example.com/`, but not `https://foo.bar.example.com/`.
2233 . Port number (e.g., `8080` in `http://example.com:8080/`).
2234 This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
2235 Omitted port numbers are automatically converted to the correct
2236 default for the scheme before matching.
2238 . Path (e.g., `repo.git` in `https://example.com/repo.git`). The
2239 path field of the config key must match the path field of the URL
2240 either exactly or as a prefix of slash-delimited path elements. This means
2241 a config key with path `foo/` matches URL path `foo/bar`. A prefix can only
2242 match on a slash (`/`) boundary. Longer matches take precedence (so a config
2243 key with path `foo/bar` is a better match to URL path `foo/bar` than a config
2244 key with just path `foo/`).
2246 . User name (e.g., `user` in `https://user@example.com/repo.git`). If
2247 the config key has a user name it must match the user name in the
2248 URL exactly. If the config key does not have a user name, that
2249 config key will match a URL with any user name (including none),
2250 but at a lower precedence than a config key with a user name.
2253 The list above is ordered by decreasing precedence; a URL that matches
2254 a config key's path is preferred to one that matches its user name. For example,
2255 if the URL is `https://user@example.com/foo/bar` a config key match of
2256 `https://example.com/foo` will be preferred over a config key match of
2257 `https://user@example.com`.
2259 All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part,
2260 if embedded in the URL, is always ignored for matching purposes) so that
2261 equivalent URLs that are simply spelled differently will match properly.
2262 Environment variable settings always override any matches. The URLs that are
2263 matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs
2264 visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching.
2267 By default, Git determines the command line arguments to use
2268 based on the basename of the configured SSH command (configured
2269 using the environment variable `GIT_SSH` or `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` or
2270 the config setting `core.sshCommand`). If the basename is
2271 unrecognized, Git will attempt to detect support of OpenSSH
2272 options by first invoking the configured SSH command with the
2273 `-G` (print configuration) option and will subsequently use
2274 OpenSSH options (if that is successful) or no options besides
2275 the host and remote command (if it fails).
2277 The config variable `ssh.variant` can be set to override this detection.
2278 Valid values are `ssh` (to use OpenSSH options), `plink`, `putty`,
2279 `tortoiseplink`, `simple` (no options except the host and remote command).
2280 The default auto-detection can be explicitly requested using the value
2281 `auto`. Any other value is treated as `ssh`. This setting can also be
2282 overridden via the environment variable `GIT_SSH_VARIANT`.
2284 The current command-line parameters used for each variant are as
2289 * `ssh` - [-p port] [-4] [-6] [-o option] [username@]host command
2291 * `simple` - [username@]host command
2293 * `plink` or `putty` - [-P port] [-4] [-6] [username@]host command
2295 * `tortoiseplink` - [-P port] [-4] [-6] -batch [username@]host command
2299 Except for the `simple` variant, command-line parameters are likely to
2300 change as git gains new features.
2302 i18n.commitEncoding::
2303 Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself
2304 does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when
2305 importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history
2306 browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other
2307 porcelains). See e.g. linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]. Defaults to 'utf-8'.
2309 i18n.logOutputEncoding::
2310 Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when
2311 running 'git log' and friends.
2314 The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
2315 in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
2318 Specify the version with which new index files should be
2319 initialized. This does not affect existing repositories.
2322 Specify the directory from which templates will be copied.
2323 (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
2326 Specify the program that will be used to browse your working
2327 repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2330 The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working
2331 repository. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2334 If true the web server started by linkgit:git-instaweb[1] will
2335 be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
2337 instaweb.modulePath::
2338 The default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use
2339 instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd
2343 The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
2344 linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2346 interactive.singleKey::
2347 In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter
2348 input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter).
2349 Currently this is used by the `--patch` mode of
2350 linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], linkgit:git-commit[1],
2351 linkgit:git-reset[1], and linkgit:git-stash[1]. Note that this
2352 setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input
2353 is not available; requires the Perl module Term::ReadKey.
2355 interactive.diffFilter::
2356 When an interactive command (such as `git add --patch`) shows
2357 a colorized diff, git will pipe the diff through the shell
2358 command defined by this configuration variable. The command may
2359 mark up the diff further for human consumption, provided that it
2360 retains a one-to-one correspondence with the lines in the
2361 original diff. Defaults to disabled (no filtering).
2364 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2365 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--abbrev-commit`. You may
2366 override this option with `--no-abbrev-commit`.
2369 Set the default date-time mode for the 'log' command.
2370 Setting a value for log.date is similar to using 'git log''s
2371 `--date` option. See linkgit:git-log[1] for details.
2374 Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log
2375 command. If 'short' is specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/',
2376 'refs/tags/' and 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is
2377 specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed.
2378 If 'auto' is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal,
2379 the ref names are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref
2380 names are shown. This is the same as the `--decorate` option
2384 If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when
2385 a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`,
2386 i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well
2387 on non-linear history.
2390 A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to draw
2391 history lines in `git log --graph`.
2394 If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event.
2395 This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.
2396 Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which
2397 normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
2400 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2401 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--show-signature`.
2404 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2405 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`.
2408 If true, makes linkgit:git-mailinfo[1] (and therefore
2409 linkgit:git-am[1]) act by default as if the --scissors option
2410 was provided on the command-line. When active, this features
2411 removes everything from the message body before a scissors
2412 line (i.e. consisting mainly of ">8", "8<" and "-").
2415 The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default
2416 mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded
2417 first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable.
2418 The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository
2419 subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself.
2420 See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1].
2423 Like `mailmap.file`, but consider the value as a reference to a
2424 blob in the repository. If both `mailmap.file` and
2425 `mailmap.blob` are given, both are parsed, with entries from
2426 `mailmap.file` taking precedence. In a bare repository, this
2427 defaults to `HEAD:.mailmap`. In a non-bare repository, it
2431 Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the
2432 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
2435 Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The
2436 specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page
2437 passed as argument. (See linkgit:git-help[1].)
2440 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
2441 display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
2443 include::merge-config.txt[]
2445 mergetool.<tool>.path::
2446 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
2447 your tool is not in the PATH.
2449 mergetool.<tool>.cmd::
2450 Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The
2451 specified command is evaluated in shell with the following
2452 variables available: 'BASE' is the name of a temporary file
2453 containing the common base of the files to be merged, if available;
2454 'LOCAL' is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of
2455 the file on the current branch; 'REMOTE' is the name of a temporary
2456 file containing the contents of the file from the branch being
2457 merged; 'MERGED' contains the name of the file to which the merge
2458 tool should write the results of a successful merge.
2460 mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode::
2461 For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of
2462 the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was
2463 successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file
2464 timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful
2465 if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to
2466 indicate the success of the merge.
2468 mergetool.meld.hasOutput::
2469 Older versions of `meld` do not support the `--output` option.
2470 Git will attempt to detect whether `meld` supports `--output`
2471 by inspecting the output of `meld --help`. Configuring
2472 `mergetool.meld.hasOutput` will make Git skip these checks and
2473 use the configured value instead. Setting `mergetool.meld.hasOutput`
2474 to `true` tells Git to unconditionally use the `--output` option,
2475 and `false` avoids using `--output`.
2477 mergetool.keepBackup::
2478 After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers
2479 can be saved as a file with a `.orig` extension. If this variable
2480 is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to
2481 `true` (i.e. keep the backup files).
2483 mergetool.keepTemporaries::
2484 When invoking a custom merge tool, Git uses a set of temporary
2485 files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this
2486 variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be
2487 preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has
2488 exited. Defaults to `false`.
2490 mergetool.writeToTemp::
2491 Git writes temporary 'BASE', 'LOCAL', and 'REMOTE' versions of
2492 conflicting files in the worktree by default. Git will attempt
2493 to use a temporary directory for these files when set `true`.
2494 Defaults to `false`.
2497 Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
2499 notes.mergeStrategy::
2500 Which merge strategy to choose by default when resolving notes
2501 conflicts. Must be one of `manual`, `ours`, `theirs`, `union`, or
2502 `cat_sort_uniq`. Defaults to `manual`. See "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES"
2503 section of linkgit:git-notes[1] for more information on each strategy.
2505 notes.<name>.mergeStrategy::
2506 Which merge strategy to choose when doing a notes merge into
2507 refs/notes/<name>. This overrides the more general
2508 "notes.mergeStrategy". See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section in
2509 linkgit:git-notes[1] for more information on the available strategies.
2512 The (fully qualified) refname from which to show notes when
2513 showing commit messages. The value of this variable can be set
2514 to a glob, in which case notes from all matching refs will be
2515 shown. You may also specify this configuration variable
2516 several times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not
2517 exist, but a glob that does not match any refs is silently
2520 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF`
2521 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
2524 The effective value of "core.notesRef" (possibly overridden by
2525 GIT_NOTES_REF) is also implicitly added to the list of refs to be
2528 notes.rewrite.<command>::
2529 When rewriting commits with <command> (currently `amend` or
2530 `rebase`) and this variable is set to `true`, Git
2531 automatically copies your notes from the original to the
2532 rewritten commit. Defaults to `true`, but see
2533 "notes.rewriteRef" below.
2536 When copying notes during a rewrite (see the
2537 "notes.rewrite.<command>" option), determines what to do if
2538 the target commit already has a note. Must be one of
2539 `overwrite`, `concatenate`, `cat_sort_uniq`, or `ignore`.
2540 Defaults to `concatenate`.
2542 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE`
2543 environment variable.
2546 When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully
2547 qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. The ref may be a
2548 glob, in which case notes in all matching refs will be copied.
2549 You may also specify this configuration several times.
2551 Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
2552 enable note rewriting. Set it to `refs/notes/commits` to enable
2553 rewriting for the default commit notes.
2555 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`
2556 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
2560 The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
2561 window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
2564 The maximum delta depth used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
2565 maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
2566 Maximum value is 4095.
2569 The maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread
2570 in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for pack window memory when
2571 no limit is given on the command line. The value can be
2572 suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". When left unconfigured (or
2573 set explicitly to 0), there will be no limit.
2576 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
2577 in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
2578 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
2579 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
2580 not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
2581 compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
2584 Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
2585 all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
2586 to linkgit:git-repack[1].
2588 pack.deltaCacheSize::
2589 The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in
2590 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] before writing them out to a pack.
2591 This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not
2592 having to recompute the final delta result once the best match
2593 for all objects is found. Repacking large repositories on machines
2594 which are tight with memory might be badly impacted by this though,
2595 especially if this cache pushes the system into swapping.
2596 A value of 0 means no limit. The smallest size of 1 byte may be
2597 used to virtually disable this cache. Defaults to 256 MiB.
2599 pack.deltaCacheLimit::
2600 The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in
2601 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. This cache is used to speed up the
2602 writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta
2603 result once the best match for all objects is found.
2604 Defaults to 1000. Maximum value is 65535.
2607 Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best
2608 delta matches. This requires that linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
2609 be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a
2610 warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
2611 machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window
2612 is however multiplied by the number of threads.
2613 Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
2614 and set the number of threads accordingly.
2617 Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for
2618 legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for
2619 the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB
2620 as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted
2621 packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced
2622 and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is
2625 If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 `*.idx` file,
2626 cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http")
2627 that will copy both `*.pack` file and corresponding `*.idx` file from the
2628 other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your
2629 older version of Git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,
2630 you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate
2633 pack.packSizeLimit::
2634 The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects
2635 packing to a file when repacking, i.e. the git:// protocol
2636 is unaffected. It can be overridden by the `--max-pack-size`
2637 option of linkgit:git-repack[1]. Reaching this limit results
2638 in the creation of multiple packfiles; which in turn prevents
2639 bitmaps from being created.
2640 The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB.
2641 The default is unlimited.
2642 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are
2646 When true, git will use pack bitmaps (if available) when packing
2647 to stdout (e.g., during the server side of a fetch). Defaults to
2648 true. You should not generally need to turn this off unless
2649 you are debugging pack bitmaps.
2651 pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated)::
2652 This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`.
2654 pack.writeBitmapHashCache::
2655 When true, git will include a "hash cache" section in the bitmap
2656 index (if one is written). This cache can be used to feed git's
2657 delta heuristics, potentially leading to better deltas between
2658 bitmapped and non-bitmapped objects (e.g., when serving a fetch
2659 between an older, bitmapped pack and objects that have been
2660 pushed since the last gc). The downside is that it consumes 4
2661 bytes per object of disk space, and that JGit's bitmap
2662 implementation does not understand it, causing it to complain if
2663 Git and JGit are used on the same repository. Defaults to false.
2666 If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the
2667 output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty.
2668 Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the
2669 pager specified by the value of `pager.<cmd>`. If `--paginate`
2670 or `--no-pager` is specified on the command line, it takes
2671 precedence over this option. To disable pagination for all
2672 commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`.
2675 Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
2676 linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just
2677 as the built-in pretty formats could. For example,
2678 running `git config pretty.changelog "format:* %H %s"`
2679 would cause the invocation `git log --pretty=changelog`
2680 to be equivalent to running `git log "--pretty=format:* %H %s"`.
2681 Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format
2682 will be silently ignored.
2685 If set, provide a user defined default policy for all protocols which
2686 don't explicitly have a policy (`protocol.<name>.allow`). By default,
2687 if unset, known-safe protocols (http, https, git, ssh, file) have a
2688 default policy of `always`, known-dangerous protocols (ext) have a
2689 default policy of `never`, and all other protocols have a default
2690 policy of `user`. Supported policies:
2694 * `always` - protocol is always able to be used.
2696 * `never` - protocol is never able to be used.
2698 * `user` - protocol is only able to be used when `GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER` is
2699 either unset or has a value of 1. This policy should be used when you want a
2700 protocol to be directly usable by the user but don't want it used by commands which
2701 execute clone/fetch/push commands without user input, e.g. recursive
2702 submodule initialization.
2706 protocol.<name>.allow::
2707 Set a policy to be used by protocol `<name>` with clone/fetch/push
2708 commands. See `protocol.allow` above for the available policies.
2710 The protocol names currently used by git are:
2713 - `file`: any local file-based path (including `file://` URLs,
2716 - `git`: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP
2717 connection (or proxy, if configured)
2719 - `ssh`: git over ssh (including `host:path` syntax,
2722 - `http`: git over http, both "smart http" and "dumb http".
2723 Note that this does _not_ include `https`; if you want to configure
2724 both, you must do so individually.
2726 - any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use
2727 `hg` to allow the `git-remote-hg` helper)
2731 Experimental. If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a
2732 server using the specified protocol version. If unset, no
2733 attempt will be made by the client to communicate using a
2734 particular protocol version, this results in protocol version 0
2740 * `0` - the original wire protocol.
2742 * `1` - the original wire protocol with the addition of a version string
2743 in the initial response from the server.
2748 By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when merging
2749 a commit that is a descendant of the current commit. Instead, the
2750 tip of the current branch is fast-forwarded. When set to `false`,
2751 this variable tells Git to create an extra merge commit in such
2752 a case (equivalent to giving the `--no-ff` option from the command
2753 line). When set to `only`, only such fast-forward merges are
2754 allowed (equivalent to giving the `--ff-only` option from the
2755 command line). This setting overrides `merge.ff` when pulling.
2758 When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead
2759 of merging the default branch from the default remote when "git
2760 pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a
2763 When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase'
2764 so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
2765 linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
2767 When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
2768 so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
2769 by running 'git pull'.
2771 When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
2773 *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
2774 it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
2778 The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
2782 The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
2785 Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is
2786 explicitly given. Different values are well-suited for
2787 specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central workflow
2788 (i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination),
2789 `upstream` is probably what you want. Possible values are:
2793 * `nothing` - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is
2794 explicitly given. This is primarily meant for people who want to
2795 avoid mistakes by always being explicit.
2797 * `current` - push the current branch to update a branch with the same
2798 name on the receiving end. Works in both central and non-central
2801 * `upstream` - push the current branch back to the branch whose
2802 changes are usually integrated into the current branch (which is
2803 called `@{upstream}`). This mode only makes sense if you are
2804 pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from
2805 (i.e. central workflow).
2807 * `tracking` - This is a deprecated synonym for `upstream`.
2809 * `simple` - in centralized workflow, work like `upstream` with an
2810 added safety to refuse to push if the upstream branch's name is
2811 different from the local one.
2813 When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally
2814 pull from, work as `current`. This is the safest option and is suited
2817 This mode has become the default in Git 2.0.
2819 * `matching` - push all branches having the same name on both ends.
2820 This makes the repository you are pushing to remember the set of
2821 branches that will be pushed out (e.g. if you always push 'maint'
2822 and 'master' there and no other branches, the repository you push
2823 to will have these two branches, and your local 'maint' and
2824 'master' will be pushed there).
2826 To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure _all_ the
2827 branches you would push out are ready to be pushed out before
2828 running 'git push', as the whole point of this mode is to allow you
2829 to push all of the branches in one go. If you usually finish work
2830 on only one branch and push out the result, while other branches are
2831 unfinished, this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not
2832 suitable for pushing into a shared central repository, as other
2833 people may add new branches there, or update the tip of existing
2834 branches outside your control.
2836 This used to be the default, but not since Git 2.0 (`simple` is the
2842 If set to true enable `--follow-tags` option by default. You
2843 may override this configuration at time of push by specifying
2847 May be set to a boolean value, or the string 'if-asked'. A true
2848 value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if `--signed` is
2849 passed to linkgit:git-push[1]. The string 'if-asked' causes
2850 pushes to be signed if the server supports it, as if
2851 `--signed=if-asked` is passed to 'git push'. A false value may
2852 override a value from a lower-priority config file. An explicit
2853 command-line flag always overrides this config option.
2856 When no `--push-option=<option>` argument is given from the
2857 command line, `git push` behaves as if each <value> of
2858 this variable is given as `--push-option=<value>`.
2860 This is a multi-valued variable, and an empty value can be used in a
2861 higher priority configuration file (e.g. `.git/config` in a
2862 repository) to clear the values inherited from a lower priority
2863 configuration files (e.g. `$HOME/.gitconfig`).
2880 This will result in only b (a and c are cleared).
2884 push.recurseSubmodules::
2885 Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed
2886 are available on a remote-tracking branch. If the value is 'check'
2887 then Git will verify that all submodule commits that changed in the
2888 revisions to be pushed are available on at least one remote of the
2889 submodule. If any commits are missing, the push will be aborted and
2890 exit with non-zero status. If the value is 'on-demand' then all
2891 submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be
2892 pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions
2893 it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If the value
2894 is 'no' then default behavior of ignoring submodules when pushing
2895 is retained. You may override this configuration at time of push by
2896 specifying '--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no'.
2898 include::rebase-config.txt[]
2900 receive.advertiseAtomic::
2901 By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push
2902 capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this
2903 capability, set this variable to false.
2905 receive.advertisePushOptions::
2906 When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options
2907 capability to its clients. False by default.
2910 By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
2911 receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop
2912 it by setting this variable to false.
2914 receive.certNonceSeed::
2915 By setting this variable to a string, `git receive-pack`
2916 will accept a `git push --signed` and verifies it by using
2917 a "nonce" protected by HMAC using this string as a secret
2920 receive.certNonceSlop::
2921 When a `git push --signed` sent a push certificate with a
2922 "nonce" that was issued by a receive-pack serving the same
2923 repository within this many seconds, export the "nonce"
2924 found in the certificate to `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE` to the
2925 hooks (instead of what the receive-pack asked the sending
2926 side to include). This may allow writing checks in
2927 `pre-receive` and `post-receive` a bit easier. Instead of
2928 checking `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP` environment variable
2929 that records by how many seconds the nonce is stale to
2930 decide if they want to accept the certificate, they only
2931 can check `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS` is `OK`.
2933 receive.fsckObjects::
2934 If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received
2935 objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a
2936 broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.
2937 Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
2940 receive.fsck.<msg-id>::
2941 When `receive.fsckObjects` is set to true, errors can be switched
2942 to warnings and vice versa by configuring the `receive.fsck.<msg-id>`
2943 setting where the `<msg-id>` is the fsck message ID and the value
2944 is one of `error`, `warn` or `ignore`. For convenience, fsck prefixes
2945 the error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid
2946 author/committer line - missing email" means that setting
2947 `receive.fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue.
2949 This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories
2950 which would not pass pushing when `receive.fsckObjects = true`, allowing
2951 the host to accept repositories with certain known issues but still catch
2954 receive.fsck.skipList::
2955 The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per
2956 line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
2957 be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project
2958 should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that
2959 can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
2960 Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
2963 After receiving the pack from the client, `receive-pack` may
2964 produce no output (if `--quiet` was specified) while processing
2965 the pack, causing some networks to drop the TCP connection.
2966 With this option set, if `receive-pack` does not transmit
2967 any data in this phase for `receive.keepAlive` seconds, it will
2968 send a short keepalive packet. The default is 5 seconds; set
2969 to 0 to disable keepalives entirely.
2971 receive.unpackLimit::
2972 If the number of objects received in a push is below this
2973 limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
2974 files. However if the number of received objects equals or
2975 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as
2976 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the
2977 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster,
2978 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
2979 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
2981 receive.maxInputSize::
2982 If the size of the incoming pack stream is larger than this
2983 limit, then git-receive-pack will error out, instead of
2984 accepting the pack file. If not set or set to 0, then the size
2987 receive.denyDeletes::
2988 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes
2989 the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push.
2991 receive.denyDeleteCurrent::
2992 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that
2993 deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
2995 receive.denyCurrentBranch::
2996 If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update
2997 to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
2998 Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD
2999 out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn",
3000 print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to
3001 proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no
3002 message. Defaults to "refuse".
3004 Another option is "updateInstead" which will update the working
3005 tree if pushing into the current branch. This option is
3006 intended for synchronizing working directories when one side is not easily
3007 accessible via interactive ssh (e.g. a live web site, hence the requirement
3008 that the working directory be clean). This mode also comes in handy when
3009 developing inside a VM to test and fix code on different Operating Systems.
3011 By default, "updateInstead" will refuse the push if the working tree or
3012 the index have any difference from the HEAD, but the `push-to-checkout`
3013 hook can be used to customize this. See linkgit:githooks[5].
3015 receive.denyNonFastForwards::
3016 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is
3017 not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push,
3018 even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is
3019 set when initializing a shared repository.
3022 This variable is the same as `transfer.hideRefs`, but applies
3023 only to `receive-pack` (and so affects pushes, but not fetches).
3024 An attempt to update or delete a hidden ref by `git push` is
3027 receive.updateServerInfo::
3028 If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info
3029 after receiving data from git-push and updating refs.
3031 receive.shallowUpdate::
3032 If set to true, .git/shallow can be updated when new refs
3033 require new shallow roots. Otherwise those refs are rejected.
3035 remote.pushDefault::
3036 The remote to push to by default. Overrides
3037 `branch.<name>.remote` for all branches, and is overridden by
3038 `branch.<name>.pushRemote` for specific branches.
3041 The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or
3042 linkgit:git-push[1].
3044 remote.<name>.pushurl::
3045 The push URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-push[1].
3047 remote.<name>.proxy::
3048 For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL to
3049 the proxy to use for that remote. Set to the empty string to
3050 disable proxying for that remote.
3052 remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod::
3053 For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the method to use for
3054 authenticating against the proxy in use (probably set in
3055 `remote.<name>.proxy`). See `http.proxyAuthMethod`.
3057 remote.<name>.fetch::
3058 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-fetch[1]. See
3059 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3061 remote.<name>.push::
3062 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-push[1]. See
3063 linkgit:git-push[1].
3065 remote.<name>.mirror::
3066 If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave
3067 as if the `--mirror` option was given on the command line.
3069 remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate::
3070 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
3071 using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
3072 linkgit:git-remote[1].
3074 remote.<name>.skipFetchAll::
3075 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
3076 using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
3077 linkgit:git-remote[1].
3079 remote.<name>.receivepack::
3080 The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See
3081 option --receive-pack of linkgit:git-push[1].
3083 remote.<name>.uploadpack::
3084 The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See
3085 option --upload-pack of linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1].
3087 remote.<name>.tagOpt::
3088 Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag following when
3089 fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to --tags will fetch every
3090 tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote
3091 branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can
3092 override this setting. See options --tags and --no-tags of
3093 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3096 Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with
3097 the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper.
3099 remote.<name>.prune::
3100 When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also
3101 remove any remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the
3102 remote (as if the `--prune` option was given on the command line).
3103 Overrides `fetch.prune` settings, if any.
3105 remote.<name>.pruneTags::
3106 When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also
3107 remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote if pruning
3108 is activated in general via `remote.<name>.prune`, `fetch.prune` or
3109 `--prune`. Overrides `fetch.pruneTags` settings, if any.
3111 See also `remote.<name>.prune` and the PRUNING section of
3112 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3115 The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update
3116 <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1].
3118 repack.useDeltaBaseOffset::
3119 By default, linkgit:git-repack[1] creates packs that use
3120 delta-base offset. If you need to share your repository with
3121 Git older than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb
3122 protocol such as http, then you need to set this option to
3123 "false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the
3124 native protocol are unaffected by this option.
3126 repack.packKeptObjects::
3127 If set to true, makes `git repack` act as if
3128 `--pack-kept-objects` was passed. See linkgit:git-repack[1] for
3129 details. Defaults to `false` normally, but `true` if a bitmap
3130 index is being written (either via `--write-bitmap-index` or
3131 `repack.writeBitmaps`).
3133 repack.writeBitmaps::
3134 When true, git will write a bitmap index when packing all
3135 objects to disk (e.g., when `git repack -a` is run). This
3136 index can speed up the "counting objects" phase of subsequent
3137 packs created for clones and fetches, at the cost of some disk
3138 space and extra time spent on the initial repack. This has
3139 no effect if multiple packfiles are created.
3143 When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the
3144 resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using
3145 previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false.
3148 Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical
3149 conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they be
3150 encountered again. By default, linkgit:git-rerere[1] is
3151 enabled if there is an `rr-cache` directory under the
3152 `$GIT_DIR`, e.g. if "rerere" was previously used in the
3155 sendemail.identity::
3156 A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
3157 'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over
3158 values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is
3159 the value of `sendemail.identity`.
3161 sendemail.smtpEncryption::
3162 See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this
3163 setting is not subject to the 'identity' mechanism.
3165 sendemail.smtpssl (deprecated)::
3166 Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpEncryption = ssl'.
3168 sendemail.smtpsslcertpath::
3169 Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file).
3170 Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification.
3172 sendemail.<identity>.*::
3173 Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters
3174 found below, taking precedence over those when this
3175 identity is selected, through either the command-line or
3176 `sendemail.identity`.
3178 sendemail.aliasesFile::
3179 sendemail.aliasFileType::
3180 sendemail.annotate::
3184 sendemail.chainReplyTo::
3186 sendemail.envelopeSender::
3188 sendemail.multiEdit::
3189 sendemail.signedoffbycc::
3190 sendemail.smtpPass::
3191 sendemail.suppresscc::
3192 sendemail.suppressFrom::
3195 sendemail.smtpDomain::
3196 sendemail.smtpServer::
3197 sendemail.smtpServerPort::
3198 sendemail.smtpServerOption::
3199 sendemail.smtpUser::
3201 sendemail.transferEncoding::
3202 sendemail.validate::
3204 See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.
3206 sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)::
3207 Deprecated alias for `sendemail.signedoffbycc`.
3209 sendemail.smtpBatchSize::
3210 Number of messages to be sent per connection, after that a relogin
3211 will happen. If the value is 0 or undefined, send all messages in
3213 See also the `--batch-size` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
3215 sendemail.smtpReloginDelay::
3216 Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server.
3217 See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
3219 showbranch.default::
3220 The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
3221 See linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
3223 splitIndex.maxPercentChange::
3224 When the split index feature is used, this specifies the
3225 percent of entries the split index can contain compared to the
3226 total number of entries in both the split index and the shared
3227 index before a new shared index is written.
3228 The value should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0 then
3229 a new shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new
3230 shared index is never written.
3231 By default the value is 20, so a new shared index is written
3232 if the number of entries in the split index would be greater
3233 than 20 percent of the total number of entries.
3234 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
3236 splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire::
3237 When the split index feature is used, shared index files that
3238 were not modified since the time this variable specifies will
3239 be removed when a new shared index file is created. The value
3240 "now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses
3241 expiration altogether.
3242 The default value is "2.weeks.ago".
3243 Note that a shared index file is considered modified (for the
3244 purpose of expiration) each time a new split-index file is
3245 either created based on it or read from it.
3246 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
3248 status.relativePaths::
3249 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the
3250 current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths
3251 relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git
3255 Set to true to enable --short by default in linkgit:git-status[1].
3256 The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable.
3259 Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1].
3260 The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable.
3262 status.displayCommentPrefix::
3263 If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will insert a comment
3264 prefix before each output line (starting with
3265 `core.commentChar`, i.e. `#` by default). This was the
3266 behavior of linkgit:git-status[1] in Git 1.8.4 and previous.
3269 status.renameLimit::
3270 The number of files to consider when performing rename detection
3271 in linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1]. Defaults to
3272 the value of diff.renameLimit.
3275 Whether and how Git detects renames in linkgit:git-status[1] and
3276 linkgit:git-commit[1] . If set to "false", rename detection is
3277 disabled. If set to "true", basic rename detection is enabled.
3278 If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will detect copies, as well.
3279 Defaults to the value of diff.renames.
3282 If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will display the number of
3283 entries currently stashed away.
3286 status.showUntrackedFiles::
3287 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show
3288 files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which
3289 contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name
3290 only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all
3291 the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some
3292 systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays
3293 the untracked files. Possible values are:
3296 * `no` - Show no untracked files.
3297 * `normal` - Show untracked files and directories.
3298 * `all` - Show also individual files in untracked directories.
3301 If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'.
3302 This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option
3303 of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1].
3305 status.submoduleSummary::
3307 If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an
3308 unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a
3309 summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see
3310 --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note
3311 that the summary output command will be suppressed for all
3312 submodules when `diff.ignoreSubmodules` is set to 'all' or only
3313 for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. The only
3314 exception to that rule is that status and commit will show staged
3315 submodule changes. To
3316 also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use
3317 the --ignore-submodules=dirty command-line option or the 'git
3318 submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does
3319 not honor these settings.
3322 If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an
3323 option will show the stash entry in patch form. Defaults to false.
3324 See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1].
3327 If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an
3328 option will show diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to true.
3329 See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1].
3331 submodule.<name>.url::
3332 The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules
3333 file to the git config via 'git submodule init'. The user can change
3334 the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via 'git submodule
3335 update'. If neither submodule.<name>.active or submodule.active are
3336 set, the presence of this variable is used as a fallback to indicate
3337 whether the submodule is of interest to git commands.
3338 See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
3340 submodule.<name>.update::
3341 The method by which a submodule is updated by 'git submodule update',
3342 which is the only affected command, others such as
3343 'git checkout --recurse-submodules' are unaffected. It exists for
3344 historical reasons, when 'git submodule' was the only command to
3345 interact with submodules; settings like `submodule.active`
3346 and `pull.rebase` are more specific. It is populated by
3347 `git submodule init` from the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file.
3348 See description of 'update' command in linkgit:git-submodule[1].
3350 submodule.<name>.branch::
3351 The remote branch name for a submodule, used by `git submodule
3352 update --remote`. Set this option to override the value found in
3353 the `.gitmodules` file. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and
3354 linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
3356 submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
3357 This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this
3358 submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
3359 command-line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
3360 This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
3363 submodule.<name>.ignore::
3364 Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
3365 a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
3366 modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and
3367 commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes
3368 to the submodules work tree and
3369 takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
3370 recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
3371 let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
3372 Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
3373 submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed.
3374 This setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule,
3375 both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
3376 "--ignore-submodules" option. The 'git submodule' commands are not
3377 affected by this setting.
3379 submodule.<name>.active::
3380 Boolean value indicating if the submodule is of interest to git
3381 commands. This config option takes precedence over the
3382 submodule.active config option. See linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for
3386 A repeated field which contains a pathspec used to match against a
3387 submodule's path to determine if the submodule is of interest to git
3388 commands. See linkgit:gitsubmodules[7] for details.
3391 Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This
3392 applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option,
3396 submodule.fetchJobs::
3397 Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time.
3398 A positive integer allows up to that number of submodules fetched
3399 in parallel. A value of 0 will give some reasonable default.
3400 If unset, it defaults to 1.
3402 submodule.alternateLocation::
3403 Specifies how the submodules obtain alternates when submodules are
3404 cloned. Possible values are `no`, `superproject`.
3405 By default `no` is assumed, which doesn't add references. When the
3406 value is set to `superproject` the submodule to be cloned computes
3407 its alternates location relative to the superprojects alternate.
3409 submodule.alternateErrorStrategy::
3410 Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule
3411 as computed via `submodule.alternateLocation`. Possible values are
3412 `ignore`, `info`, `die`. Default is `die`.
3414 tag.forceSignAnnotated::
3415 A boolean to specify whether annotated tags created should be GPG signed.
3416 If `--annotate` is specified on the command line, it takes
3417 precedence over this option.
3420 This variable controls the sort ordering of tags when displayed by
3421 linkgit:git-tag[1]. Without the "--sort=<value>" option provided, the
3422 value of this variable will be used as the default.
3425 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
3426 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
3427 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
3428 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and
3429 linkgit:git-archive[1].
3431 transfer.fsckObjects::
3432 When `fetch.fsckObjects` or `receive.fsckObjects` are
3433 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
3437 String(s) `receive-pack` and `upload-pack` use to decide which
3438 refs to omit from their initial advertisements. Use more than
3439 one definition to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that is
3440 under the hierarchies listed in the value of this variable is
3441 excluded, and is hidden when responding to `git push` or `git
3442 fetch`. See `receive.hideRefs` and `uploadpack.hideRefs` for
3443 program-specific versions of this config.
3445 You may also include a `!` in front of the ref name to negate the entry,
3446 explicitly exposing it, even if an earlier entry marked it as hidden.
3447 If you have multiple hideRefs values, later entries override earlier ones
3448 (and entries in more-specific config files override less-specific ones).
3450 If a namespace is in use, the namespace prefix is stripped from each
3451 reference before it is matched against `transfer.hiderefs` patterns.
3452 For example, if `refs/heads/master` is specified in `transfer.hideRefs` and
3453 the current namespace is `foo`, then `refs/namespaces/foo/refs/heads/master`
3454 is omitted from the advertisements but `refs/heads/master` and
3455 `refs/namespaces/bar/refs/heads/master` are still advertised as so-called
3456 "have" lines. In order to match refs before stripping, add a `^` in front of
3457 the ref name. If you combine `!` and `^`, `!` must be specified first.
3459 Even if you hide refs, a client may still be able to steal the target
3460 objects via the techniques described in the "SECURITY" section of the
3461 linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's best to keep private data in a
3462 separate repository.
3464 transfer.unpackLimit::
3465 When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are
3466 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
3467 The default value is 100.
3469 uploadarchive.allowUnreachable::
3470 If true, allow clients to use `git archive --remote` to request
3471 any tree, whether reachable from the ref tips or not. See the
3472 discussion in the "SECURITY" section of
3473 linkgit:git-upload-archive[1] for more details. Defaults to
3476 uploadpack.hideRefs::
3477 This variable is the same as `transfer.hideRefs`, but applies
3478 only to `upload-pack` (and so affects only fetches, not pushes).
3479 An attempt to fetch a hidden ref by `git fetch` will fail. See
3480 also `uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant`.
3482 uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant::
3483 When `uploadpack.hideRefs` is in effect, allow `upload-pack`
3484 to accept a fetch request that asks for an object at the tip
3485 of a hidden ref (by default, such a request is rejected).
3486 See also `uploadpack.hideRefs`. Even if this is false, a client
3487 may be able to steal objects via the techniques described in the
3488 "SECURITY" section of the linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's
3489 best to keep private data in a separate repository.
3491 uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant::
3492 Allow `upload-pack` to accept a fetch request that asks for an
3493 object that is reachable from any ref tip. However, note that
3494 calculating object reachability is computationally expensive.
3495 Defaults to `false`. Even if this is false, a client may be able
3496 to steal objects via the techniques described in the "SECURITY"
3497 section of the linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's best to
3498 keep private data in a separate repository.
3500 uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant::
3501 Allow `upload-pack` to accept a fetch request that asks for any
3503 Defaults to `false`.
3505 uploadpack.keepAlive::
3506 When `upload-pack` has started `pack-objects`, there may be a
3507 quiet period while `pack-objects` prepares the pack. Normally
3508 it would output progress information, but if `--quiet` was used
3509 for the fetch, `pack-objects` will output nothing at all until
3510 the pack data begins. Some clients and networks may consider
3511 the server to be hung and give up. Setting this option instructs
3512 `upload-pack` to send an empty keepalive packet every
3513 `uploadpack.keepAlive` seconds. Setting this option to 0
3514 disables keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5 seconds.
3516 uploadpack.packObjectsHook::
3517 If this option is set, when `upload-pack` would run
3518 `git pack-objects` to create a packfile for a client, it will
3519 run this shell command instead. The `pack-objects` command and
3520 arguments it _would_ have run (including the `git pack-objects`
3521 at the beginning) are appended to the shell command. The stdin
3522 and stdout of the hook are treated as if `pack-objects` itself
3523 was run. I.e., `upload-pack` will feed input intended for
3524 `pack-objects` to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on
3527 uploadpack.allowFilter::
3528 If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support partial
3529 clone and partial fetch object filtering.
3531 Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the
3532 repository-level config (this is a safety measure against fetching from
3533 untrusted repositories).
3535 uploadpack.allowRefInWant::
3536 If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support the `ref-in-want`
3537 feature of the protocol version 2 `fetch` command. This feature
3538 is intended for the benefit of load-balanced servers which may
3539 not have the same view of what OIDs their refs point to due to
3542 url.<base>.insteadOf::
3543 Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
3544 start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a
3545 large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
3546 access methods, and some users need to use different access
3547 methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the
3548 equivalent URLs and have Git automatically rewrite the URL to
3549 the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
3550 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
3551 insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.
3553 Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the rewritten
3554 URL. If the rewrite changes the URL to use a custom protocol or remote
3555 helper, you may need to adjust the `protocol.*.allow` config to permit
3556 the request. In particular, protocols you expect to use for submodules
3557 must be set to `always` rather than the default of `user`. See the
3558 description of `protocol.allow` above.
3560 url.<base>.pushInsteadOf::
3561 Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to;
3562 instead, it will be rewritten to start with <base>, and the
3563 resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves
3564 a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
3565 access methods, some of which do not allow push, this feature
3566 allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have Git
3567 automatically use an appropriate URL to push, even for a
3568 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
3569 pushInsteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is
3570 used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will ignore this
3571 setting for that remote.
3574 Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.
3575 Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and
3576 `EMAIL` environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
3579 Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits.
3580 Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` and `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`
3581 environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
3583 user.useConfigOnly::
3584 Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`
3585 and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the
3586 configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses
3587 and would like to use a different one for each repository, then
3588 with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config
3589 along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before
3590 making new commits in a newly cloned repository.
3591 Defaults to `false`.
3594 If linkgit:git-tag[1] or linkgit:git-commit[1] is not selecting the
3595 key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or
3596 commit, you can override the default selection with this variable.
3597 This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter,
3598 so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports.
3600 versionsort.prereleaseSuffix (deprecated)::
3601 Deprecated alias for `versionsort.suffix`. Ignored if
3602 `versionsort.suffix` is set.
3604 versionsort.suffix::
3605 Even when version sort is used in linkgit:git-tag[1], tagnames
3606 with the same base version but different suffixes are still sorted
3607 lexicographically, resulting e.g. in prerelease tags appearing
3608 after the main release (e.g. "1.0-rc1" after "1.0"). This
3609 variable can be specified to determine the sorting order of tags
3610 with different suffixes.
3612 By specifying a single suffix in this variable, any tagname containing
3613 that suffix will appear before the corresponding main release. E.g. if
3614 the variable is set to "-rc", then all "1.0-rcX" tags will appear before
3615 "1.0". If specified multiple times, once per suffix, then the order of
3616 suffixes in the configuration will determine the sorting order of tagnames
3617 with those suffixes. E.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the
3618 configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be listed before any
3619 "1.0-rcX" tags. The placement of the main release tag relative to tags
3620 with various suffixes can be determined by specifying the empty suffix
3621 among those other suffixes. E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck" and
3622 "-bfs" appear in the configuration in this order, then all "v4.8-rcX" tags
3623 are listed first, followed by "v4.8", then "v4.8-ckX" and finally
3626 If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will
3627 be sorted according to the suffix which starts at the earliest position in
3628 the tagname. If more than one different matching suffixes start at
3629 that earliest position, then that tagname will be sorted according to the
3630 longest of those suffixes.
3631 The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined if they are
3632 in multiple config files.
3635 Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands.
3636 Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1]
3639 worktree.guessRemote::
3640 With `add`, if no branch argument, and neither of `-b` nor
3641 `-B` nor `--detach` are given, the command defaults to
3642 creating a new branch from HEAD. If `worktree.guessRemote` is
3643 set to true, `worktree add` tries to find a remote-tracking
3644 branch whose name uniquely matches the new branch name. If
3645 such a branch exists, it is checked out and set as "upstream"
3646 for the new branch. If no such match can be found, it falls
3647 back to creating a new branch from the current HEAD.