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.
348 Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
349 linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it.
351 In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1],
352 show directions on how to proceed from the current state.
354 Advice on what to do when you've accidentally added one
355 git repo inside of another.
357 Advice shown if an hook is ignored because the hook is not
360 Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for
361 editor input from the user.
365 Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree
368 Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is
369 marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a
370 non-executable file with executable bit on.
371 linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] probe the filesystem
372 to see if it handles the executable bit correctly
373 and this variable is automatically set as necessary.
375 A repository, however, may be on a filesystem that handles
376 the filemode correctly, and this variable is set to 'true'
377 when created, but later may be made accessible from another
378 environment that loses the filemode (e.g. exporting ext4 via
379 CIFS mount, visiting a Cygwin created repository with
380 Git for Windows or Eclipse).
381 In such a case it may be necessary to set this variable to 'false'.
382 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
384 The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file).
387 (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and files whose
388 name starts with a dot as hidden. If 'dotGitOnly', only the `.git/`
389 directory is hidden, but no other files starting with a dot. The
390 default mode is 'dotGitOnly'.
393 If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable
394 Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive,
395 like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds
396 "makefile" when Git expects "Makefile", Git will assume
397 it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as
400 The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
401 will probe and set core.ignoreCase true if appropriate when the repository
404 core.precomposeUnicode::
405 This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git.
406 When core.precomposeUnicode=true, Git reverts the unicode decomposition
407 of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository
408 between Mac OS and Linux or Windows.
409 (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7).
410 When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git,
411 which is backward compatible with older versions of Git.
414 If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would
415 be considered equivalent to `.git` on an HFS+ filesystem.
416 Defaults to `true` on Mac OS, and `false` elsewhere.
419 If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would
420 cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with
422 Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere.
425 If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which
426 will identify all files that may have changed since the
427 requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git by
428 avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed.
429 See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5].
432 If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
433 working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
434 is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system
435 crawlers and some backup systems).
436 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
439 If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used.
440 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. False by default.
442 core.untrackedCache::
443 Determines what to do about the untracked cache feature of the
444 index. It will be kept, if this variable is unset or set to
445 `keep`. It will automatically be added if set to `true`. And
446 it will automatically be removed, if set to `false`. Before
447 setting it to `true`, you should check that mtime is working
448 properly on your system.
449 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default.
452 Determines which stat fields to match between the index
453 and work tree. The user can set this to 'default' or
454 'minimal'. Default (or explicitly 'default'), is to check
455 all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime.
458 Commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), will
459 quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
460 pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with
461 backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters (e.g.
462 `\t` for TAB, `\n` for LF, `\\` for backslash) or bytes with
463 values larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal `\302\265` for "micro" in
464 UTF-8). If this variable is set to false, bytes higher than
465 0x80 are not considered "unusual" any more. Double-quotes,
466 backslash and control characters are always escaped regardless
467 of the setting of this variable. A simple space character is
468 not considered "unusual". Many commands can output pathnames
469 completely verbatim using the `-z` option. The default value
473 Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
474 files that have the `text` property set when core.autocrlf is false.
475 Alternatives are 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's
476 native line ending. The default value is `native`. See
477 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line
481 If true, makes Git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when
482 end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a command
483 modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly.
484 For example, committing a file followed by checking out the
485 same file should yield the original file in the work tree. If
486 this is not the case for the current setting of
487 `core.autocrlf`, Git will reject the file. The variable can
488 be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an
489 irreversible conversion but continue the operation.
491 CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
492 When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to
493 CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and
494 CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by Git. For text
495 files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
496 such that we have only LF line endings in the repository.
497 But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the
498 conversion can corrupt data.
500 If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by
501 setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right
502 after committing you still have the original file in your work
503 tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell
504 Git that this file is binary and Git will handle the file
507 Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with
508 mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary
509 files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed
510 in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing
511 to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files
512 converting CRLFs corrupts data.
514 Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a
515 file identical to the original file for a different setting of
516 `core.eol` and `core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For
517 example, a text file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.eol=lf`
518 and could later be checked out with `core.eol=crlf`, in which case the
519 resulting file would contain `CRLF`, although the original file
520 contained `LF`. However, in both work trees the line endings would be
521 consistent, that is either all `LF` or all `CRLF`, but never mixed. A
522 file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf`
526 Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting
527 the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf".
528 Set to true if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your
529 working directory and the repository has LF line endings.
530 This variable can be set to 'input',
531 in which case no output conversion is performed.
533 core.checkRoundtripEncoding::
534 A comma and/or whitespace separated list of encodings that Git
535 performs UTF-8 round trip checks on if they are used in an
536 `working-tree-encoding` attribute (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
537 The default value is `SHIFT-JIS`.
540 If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that
541 contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and
542 linkgit:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular
543 file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support
546 The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
547 will probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the repository
551 A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead
552 of establishing direct connection to the remote server when
553 using the Git protocol for fetching. If the variable value is
554 in the "COMMAND for DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only
555 on hostnames ending with the specified domain string. This variable
556 may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order;
557 the first match wins.
559 Can be overridden by the `GIT_PROXY_COMMAND` environment variable
560 (which always applies universally, without the special "for"
563 The special string `none` can be used as the proxy command to
564 specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern.
565 This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from
566 proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains.
569 If this variable is set, `git fetch` and `git push` will
570 use the specified command instead of `ssh` when they need to
571 connect to a remote system. The command is in the same form as
572 the `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` environment variable and is overridden
573 when the environment variable is set.
576 If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have
577 changed by setting the "assume-unchanged" bit for those tracked files
578 which it has updated identically in both the index and working tree.
580 When files are modified outside of Git, the user will need to stage
581 the modified files explicitly (e.g. see 'Examples' section in
582 linkgit:git-update-index[1]).
583 Git will not normally detect changes to those files.
585 This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow, such as
586 CIFS/Microsoft Windows.
590 core.preferSymlinkRefs::
591 Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD
592 and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links.
593 This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that
594 expect HEAD to be a symbolic link.
597 If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no
598 working directory associated with it. If this is the case a
599 number of commands that require a working directory will be
600 disabled, such as linkgit:git-add[1] or linkgit:git-merge[1].
602 This setting is automatically guessed by linkgit:git-clone[1] or
603 linkgit:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a
604 repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare =
605 false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare
609 Set the path to the root of the working tree.
610 If `GIT_COMMON_DIR` environment variable is set, core.worktree
611 is ignored and not used for determining the root of working tree.
612 This can be overridden by the `GIT_WORK_TREE` environment
613 variable and the `--work-tree` command-line option.
614 The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to
615 the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
616 or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered.
617 If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is specified but none of
618 --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified,
619 the current working directory is regarded as the top level
620 of your working tree.
622 Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration
623 file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory and its value differs
624 from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has
625 core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a
626 misconfiguration. Running Git commands in the "/path/to" directory will
627 still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause
628 confusion unless you know what you are doing (e.g. you are creating a
629 read-only snapshot of the same index to a location different from the
630 repository's usual working tree).
632 core.logAllRefUpdates::
633 Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
634 "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`", by appending the new and old
635 SHA-1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but
636 only when the file exists. If this configuration
637 variable is set to `true`, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>`"
638 file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under
639 `refs/heads/`), remote refs (i.e. under `refs/remotes/`),
640 note refs (i.e. under `refs/notes/`), and the symbolic ref `HEAD`.
641 If it is set to `always`, then a missing reflog is automatically
642 created for any ref under `refs/`.
644 This information can be used to determine what commit
645 was the tip of a branch "2 days ago".
647 This value is true by default in a repository that has
648 a working directory associated with it, and false by
649 default in a bare repository.
651 core.repositoryFormatVersion::
652 Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout
655 core.sharedRepository::
656 When 'group' (or 'true'), the repository is made shareable between
657 several users in a group (making sure all the files and objects are
658 group-writable). When 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'), the
659 repository will be readable by all users, additionally to being
660 group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), Git will use permissions
661 reported by umask(2). When '0xxx', where '0xxx' is an octal number,
662 files in the repository will have this mode value. '0xxx' will override
663 user's umask value (whereas the other options will only override
664 requested parts of the user's umask value). Examples: '0660' will make
665 the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to
666 others (equivalent to 'group' unless umask is e.g. '0022'). '0640' is a
667 repository that is group-readable but not group-writable.
668 See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default.
670 core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
671 If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
672 and might match multiple refs in the repository. True by default.
675 An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level.
676 -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
677 and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest.
678 If set, this provides a default to other compression variables,
679 such as `core.looseCompression` and `pack.compression`.
681 core.looseCompression::
682 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that
683 are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
684 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
685 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
686 not set, defaults to 1 (best speed).
688 core.packedGitWindowSize::
689 Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a
690 single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow
691 your system to process a smaller number of large pack files
692 more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect
693 performance due to increased calls to the operating system's
694 memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing
695 a large number of large pack files.
697 Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32
698 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should
699 be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do
700 not need to adjust this value.
702 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
704 core.packedGitLimit::
705 Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory
706 from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many
707 bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing
708 regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process.
710 Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 32 TiB (effectively
711 unlimited) on 64 bit platforms.
712 This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on
713 the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
715 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
717 core.deltaBaseCacheLimit::
718 Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects
719 that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the
720 entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able
721 to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
722 objects multiple times.
724 Default is 96 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
725 for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects.
726 You probably do not need to adjust this value.
728 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
730 core.bigFileThreshold::
731 Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without
732 attempting delta compression. Storing large files without
733 delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the
734 slight expense of increased disk usage. Additionally files
735 larger than this size are always treated as binary.
737 Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
738 for most projects as source code and other text files can still
739 be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
741 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
744 Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
745 describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
746 to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'.
747 Defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore`.
748 If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`
749 is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
752 Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively
753 ask for a password can be told to use an external program given
754 via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the `GIT_ASKPASS`
755 environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the
756 `SSH_ASKPASS` environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
757 prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
758 command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
760 core.attributesFile::
761 In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
762 '.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes
763 (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same
764 way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is
765 `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not
766 set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/attributes` is used instead.
769 By default Git will look for your hooks in the
770 '$GIT_DIR/hooks' directory. Set this to different path,
771 e.g. '/etc/git/hooks', and Git will try to find your hooks in
772 that directory, e.g. '/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive' instead of
773 in '$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive'.
775 The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is
776 taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run (see
777 the "DESCRIPTION" section of linkgit:githooks[5]).
779 This configuration variable is useful in cases where you'd like to
780 centrally configure your Git hooks instead of configuring them on a
781 per-repository basis, or as a more flexible and centralized
782 alternative to having an `init.templateDir` where you've changed
786 Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that let you edit
787 messages by launching an editor use the value of this
788 variable when it is set, and the environment variable
789 `GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1].
792 Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that let you edit
793 messages consider a line that begins with this character
794 commented, and removes them after the editor returns
797 If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not
798 the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages.
800 core.filesRefLockTimeout::
801 The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to
802 lock an individual reference. Value 0 means not to retry at
803 all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 100 (i.e.,
806 core.packedRefsTimeout::
807 The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to
808 lock the `packed-refs` file. Value 0 means not to retry at
809 all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e.,
813 Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase instruction file.
814 The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used.
815 It can be overridden by the `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` environment variable.
816 When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead.
819 Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., 'less'). The value
820 is meant to be interpreted by the shell. The order of preference
821 is the `$GIT_PAGER` environment variable, then `core.pager`
822 configuration, then `$PAGER`, and then the default chosen at
823 compile time (usually 'less').
825 When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `FRX`
826 (if `LESS` environment variable is set, Git does not change it at
827 all). If you want to selectively override Git's default setting
828 for `LESS`, you can set `core.pager` to e.g. `less -S`. This will
829 be passed to the shell by Git, which will translate the final
830 command to `LESS=FRX less -S`. The environment does not set the
831 `S` option but the command line does, instructing less to truncate
832 long lines. Similarly, setting `core.pager` to `less -+F` will
833 deactivate the `F` option specified by the environment from the
834 command-line, deactivating the "quit if one screen" behavior of
835 `less`. One can specifically activate some flags for particular
836 commands: for example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables
837 line truncation only for `git blame`.
839 Likewise, when the `LV` environment variable is unset, Git sets it
840 to `-c`. You can override this setting by exporting `LV` with
841 another value or setting `core.pager` to `lv +c`.
844 A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
845 notice. 'git diff' will use `color.diff.whitespace` to
846 highlight them, and 'git apply --whitespace=error' will
847 consider them as errors. You can prefix `-` to disable
848 any of them (e.g. `-trailing-space`):
850 * `blank-at-eol` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line
851 as an error (enabled by default).
852 * `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately
853 before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an
854 error (enabled by default).
855 * `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with space
856 characters instead of the equivalent tabs as an error (not enabled by
858 * `tab-in-indent` treats a tab character in the initial indent part of
859 the line as an error (not enabled by default).
860 * `blank-at-eof` treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error
861 (enabled by default).
862 * `trailing-space` is a short-hand to cover both `blank-at-eol` and
864 * `cr-at-eol` treats a carriage-return at the end of line as
865 part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space`
866 does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
867 is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
868 * `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this
869 is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when Git fixes `tab-in-indent`
870 errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63.
872 core.fsyncObjectFiles::
873 This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
875 This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders
876 data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use
877 journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata
878 and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
881 Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff'
883 This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially
884 on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus
885 relatively high IO latencies. When enabled, Git will do the
886 index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing
887 overlapping IO's. Defaults to true.
890 You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by
891 a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation
892 will not overwrite existing objects.
894 On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable.
895 Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the
896 check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten.
899 When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in
900 the given ref. The ref must be fully qualified. If the given
901 ref does not exist, it is not an error but means that no
902 notes should be printed.
904 This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by
905 the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1].
908 Enable git commit graph feature. Allows reading from the
911 core.sparseCheckout::
912 Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
913 linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
916 Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If
917 unspecified or set to "auto", an appropriate value is
918 computed based on the approximate number of packed objects
919 in your repository, which hopefully is enough for
920 abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time.
921 The minimum length is 4.
924 add.ignore-errors (deprecated)::
925 Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be
926 added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the `--ignore-errors`
927 option of linkgit:git-add[1]. `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated,
928 as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration
932 Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
933 after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
934 "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid
935 confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that
936 hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by
937 spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported.
938 A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them.
940 If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
941 it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining
942 "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation
943 "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command
944 "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be
945 executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
946 not necessarily be the current directory.
947 `GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix'
948 from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
951 If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format
952 with parameter `--keep-cr`. In this case git-mailsplit will
953 not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden
954 by giving `--no-keep-cr` from the command line.
955 See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1].
958 By default, `git am` will fail if the patch does not apply cleanly. When
959 set to true, this setting tells `git am` to fall back on 3-way merge if
960 the patch records the identity of blobs it is supposed to apply to and
961 we have those blobs available locally (equivalent to giving the `--3way`
962 option from the command line). Defaults to `false`.
963 See linkgit:git-am[1].
965 apply.ignoreWhitespace::
966 When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in
967 whitespace, in the same way as the `--ignore-space-change`
969 When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git apply' to
970 respect all whitespace differences.
971 See linkgit:git-apply[1].
974 Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way
975 as the `--whitespace` option. See linkgit:git-apply[1].
978 Do not treat root commits as boundaries in linkgit:git-blame[1].
979 This option defaults to false.
981 blame.blankBoundary::
982 Show blank commit object name for boundary commits in
983 linkgit:git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false.
986 Show the author email instead of author name in linkgit:git-blame[1].
987 This option defaults to false.
990 Specifies the format used to output dates in linkgit:git-blame[1].
991 If unset the iso format is used. For supported values,
992 see the discussion of the `--date` option at linkgit:git-log[1].
994 branch.autoSetupMerge::
995 Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches
996 so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the
997 starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set,
998 this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track`
999 and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no
1000 automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the
1001 starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` --
1002 automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a
1003 local branch or remote-tracking
1004 branch. This option defaults to true.
1006 branch.autoSetupRebase::
1007 When a new branch is created with 'git branch' or 'git checkout'
1008 that tracks another branch, this variable tells Git to set
1009 up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase").
1010 When `never`, rebase is never automatically set to true.
1011 When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
1012 other local branches.
1013 When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
1014 remote-tracking branches.
1015 When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking
1017 See "branch.autoSetupMerge" for details on how to set up a
1018 branch to track another branch.
1019 This option defaults to never.
1021 branch.<name>.remote::
1022 When on branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' and 'git push'
1023 which remote to fetch from/push to. The remote to push to
1024 may be overridden with `remote.pushDefault` (for all branches).
1025 The remote to push to, for the current branch, may be further
1026 overridden by `branch.<name>.pushRemote`. If no remote is
1027 configured, or if you are not on any branch, it defaults to
1028 `origin` for fetching and `remote.pushDefault` for pushing.
1029 Additionally, `.` (a period) is the current local repository
1030 (a dot-repository), see `branch.<name>.merge`'s final note below.
1032 branch.<name>.pushRemote::
1033 When on branch <name>, it overrides `branch.<name>.remote` for
1034 pushing. It also overrides `remote.pushDefault` for pushing
1035 from branch <name>. When you pull from one place (e.g. your
1036 upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own publishing
1037 repository), you would want to set `remote.pushDefault` to
1038 specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this
1039 option to override it for a specific branch.
1041 branch.<name>.merge::
1042 Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch
1043 for the given branch. It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull'/'git rebase' which
1044 branch to merge and can also affect 'git push' (see push.default).
1045 When in branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' the default
1046 refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is
1047 handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a
1048 ref which is fetched from the remote given by
1049 "branch.<name>.remote".
1050 The merge information is used by 'git pull' (which at first calls
1051 'git fetch') to lookup the default branch for merging. Without
1052 this option, 'git pull' defaults to merge the first refspec fetched.
1053 Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge.
1054 If you wish to setup 'git pull' so that it merges into <name> from
1055 another branch in the local repository, you can point
1056 branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the relative path
1057 setting `.` (a period) for branch.<name>.remote.
1059 branch.<name>.mergeOptions::
1060 Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and
1061 supported options are the same as those of linkgit:git-merge[1], but
1062 option values containing whitespace characters are currently not
1065 branch.<name>.rebase::
1066 When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched branch,
1067 instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when
1068 "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non
1069 branch-specific manner.
1071 When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase'
1072 so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
1073 linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
1075 When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
1076 so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
1077 by running 'git pull'.
1079 When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
1081 *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
1082 it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
1085 branch.<name>.description::
1086 Branch description, can be edited with
1087 `git branch --edit-description`. Branch description is
1088 automatically added in the format-patch cover letter or
1089 request-pull summary.
1091 browser.<tool>.cmd::
1092 Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The
1093 specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed
1094 as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].)
1096 browser.<tool>.path::
1097 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
1098 browse HTML help (see `-w` option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a
1099 working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]).
1101 clean.requireForce::
1102 A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f,
1103 -i or -n. Defaults to true.
1106 A boolean to enable/disable color in hints (e.g. when a push
1107 failed, see `advice.*` for a list). May be set to `always`,
1108 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors
1109 are used only when the error output goes to a terminal. If
1110 unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1113 Use customized color for hints.
1116 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
1117 linkgit:git-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
1118 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
1119 only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
1120 value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1122 color.branch.<slot>::
1123 Use customized color for branch coloration. `<slot>` is one of
1124 `current` (the current branch), `local` (a local branch),
1125 `remote` (a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/),
1126 `upstream` (upstream tracking branch), `plain` (other
1130 Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches.
1131 If this is set to `always`, linkgit:git-diff[1],
1132 linkgit:git-log[1], and linkgit:git-show[1] will use color
1133 for all patches. If it is set to `true` or `auto`, those
1134 commands will only use color when output is to the terminal.
1135 If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by
1138 This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or the
1139 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the
1140 command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option.
1143 If set to either a valid `<mode>` or a true value, moved lines
1144 in a diff are colored differently, for details of valid modes
1145 see '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1]. If simply set to
1146 true the default color mode will be used. When set to false,
1147 moved lines are not colored.
1150 Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies
1151 which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one
1152 of `context` (context text - `plain` is a historical synonym),
1153 `meta` (metainformation), `frag`
1154 (hunk header), 'func' (function in hunk header), `old` (removed lines),
1155 `new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), `whitespace`
1156 (highlighting whitespace errors), `oldMoved` (deleted lines),
1157 `newMoved` (added lines), `oldMovedDimmed`, `oldMovedAlternative`,
1158 `oldMovedAlternativeDimmed`, `newMovedDimmed`, `newMovedAlternative`
1159 and `newMovedAlternativeDimmed` (See the '<mode>'
1160 setting of '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1] for details).
1162 color.decorate.<slot>::
1163 Use customized color for 'git log --decorate' output. `<slot>` is one
1164 of `branch`, `remoteBranch`, `tag`, `stash` or `HEAD` for local
1165 branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively.
1168 When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or
1169 `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use color only
1170 when the output is written to the terminal. If unset, then the
1171 value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1174 Use customized color for grep colorization. `<slot>` specifies which
1175 part of the line to use the specified color, and is one of
1179 non-matching text in context lines (when using `-A`, `-B`, or `-C`)
1181 filename prefix (when not using `-h`)
1183 function name lines (when using `-p`)
1185 line number prefix (when using `-n`)
1187 matching text (same as setting `matchContext` and `matchSelected`)
1189 matching text in context lines
1191 matching text in selected lines
1193 non-matching text in selected lines
1195 separators between fields on a line (`:`, `-`, and `=`)
1196 and between hunks (`--`)
1200 When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts
1201 and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive" and
1202 "git-clean --interactive"). When false (or `never`), never.
1203 When set to `true` or `auto`, use colors only when the output is
1204 to the terminal. If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is
1205 used (`auto` by default).
1207 color.interactive.<slot>::
1208 Use customized color for 'git add --interactive' and 'git clean
1209 --interactive' output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help`
1210 or `error`, for four distinct types of normal output from
1211 interactive commands.
1214 A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in
1215 use (default is true).
1218 A boolean to enable/disable color in push errors. May be set to
1219 `always`, `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which
1220 case colors are used only when the error output goes to a terminal.
1221 If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1224 Use customized color for push errors.
1227 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
1228 linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
1229 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
1230 only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
1231 value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1234 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
1235 linkgit:git-status[1]. May be set to `always`,
1236 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
1237 only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the
1238 value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1240 color.status.<slot>::
1241 Use customized color for status colorization. `<slot>` is
1242 one of `header` (the header text of the status message),
1243 `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed),
1244 `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index),
1245 `untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git),
1246 `branch` (the current branch),
1247 `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
1249 `localBranch` or `remoteBranch` (the local and remote branch names,
1250 respectively, when branch and tracking information is displayed in the
1251 status short-format), or
1252 `unmerged` (files which have unmerged changes).
1254 color.blame.repeatedLines::
1255 Use the customized color for the part of git-blame output that
1256 is repeated meta information per line (such as commit id,
1257 author name, date and timezone). Defaults to cyan.
1259 color.blame.highlightRecent::
1260 This can be used to color the metadata of a blame line depending
1263 This setting should be set to a comma-separated list of color and date settings,
1264 starting and ending with a color, the dates should be set from oldest to newest.
1265 The metadata will be colored given the colors if the the line was introduced
1266 before the given timestamp, overwriting older timestamped colors.
1268 Instead of an absolute timestamp relative timestamps work as well, e.g.
1269 2.weeks.ago is valid to address anything older than 2 weeks.
1271 It defaults to 'blue,12 month ago,white,1 month ago,red', which colors
1272 everything older than one year blue, recent changes between one month and
1273 one year old are kept white, and lines introduced within the last month are
1277 This determines the coloring scheme to be applied to blame
1278 output. It can be 'repeatedLines', 'highlightRecent',
1279 or 'none' which is the default.
1282 A boolean to enable/disable color when pushes are rejected. May be
1283 set to `always`, `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which
1284 case colors are used only when the error output goes to a terminal.
1285 If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default).
1287 color.transport.rejected::
1288 Use customized color when a push was rejected.
1291 This variable determines the default value for variables such
1292 as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color
1293 per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn
1294 configuration to set a default for the `--color` option. Set it
1295 to `false` or `never` if you prefer Git commands not to use
1296 color unless enabled explicitly with some other configuration
1297 or the `--color` option. Set it to `always` if you want all
1298 output not intended for machine consumption to use color, to
1299 `true` or `auto` (this is the default since Git 1.8.4) if you
1300 want such output to use color when written to the terminal.
1303 Specify whether supported commands should output in columns.
1304 This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces
1307 These options control when the feature should be enabled
1308 (defaults to 'never'):
1312 always show in columns
1314 never show in columns
1316 show in columns if the output is to the terminal
1319 These options control layout (defaults to 'column'). Setting any
1320 of these implies 'always' if none of 'always', 'never', or 'auto' are
1325 fill columns before rows
1327 fill rows before columns
1332 Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option (defaults
1337 make unequal size columns to utilize more space
1339 make equal size columns
1343 Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns.
1344 See `column.ui` for details.
1347 Specify the layout when list items in `git clean -i`, which always
1348 shows files and directories in columns. See `column.ui` for details.
1351 Specify whether to output untracked files in `git status` in columns.
1352 See `column.ui` for details.
1355 Specify whether to output tag listing in `git tag` in columns.
1356 See `column.ui` for details.
1359 This setting overrides the default of the `--cleanup` option in
1360 `git commit`. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for details. Changing the
1361 default can be useful when you always want to keep lines that begin
1362 with comment character `#` in your log message, in which case you
1363 would do `git config commit.cleanup whitespace` (note that you will
1364 have to remove the help lines that begin with `#` in the commit log
1365 template yourself, if you do this).
1369 A boolean to specify whether all commits should be GPG signed.
1370 Use of this option when doing operations such as rebase can
1371 result in a large number of commits being signed. It may be
1372 convenient to use an agent to avoid typing your GPG passphrase
1376 A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the
1377 commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit
1378 message. Defaults to true.
1381 Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for
1382 new commit messages.
1385 A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with `git commit`.
1386 See linkgit:git-commit[1].
1389 Specify an external helper to be called when a username or
1390 password credential is needed; the helper may consult external
1391 storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. Note
1392 that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7]
1395 credential.useHttpPath::
1396 When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http
1397 or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See
1398 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information.
1400 credential.username::
1401 If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username
1402 by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and
1403 linkgit:gitcredentials[7].
1405 credential.<url>.*::
1406 Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to
1407 some credentials. For example "credential.https://example.com.username"
1408 would set the default username only for https connections to
1409 example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are
1412 credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP::
1413 Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting.
1415 completion.commands::
1416 This is only used by git-completion.bash to add or remove
1417 commands from the list of completed commands. Normally only
1418 porcelain commands and a few select others are completed. You
1419 can add more commands, separated by space, in this
1420 variable. Prefixing the command with '-' will remove it from
1423 include::diff-config.txt[]
1425 difftool.<tool>.path::
1426 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
1427 your tool is not in the PATH.
1429 difftool.<tool>.cmd::
1430 Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool.
1431 The specified command is evaluated in shell with the following
1432 variables available: 'LOCAL' is set to the name of the temporary
1433 file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and 'REMOTE'
1434 is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents
1435 of the diff post-image.
1438 Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
1440 fastimport.unpackLimit::
1441 If the number of objects imported by linkgit:git-fast-import[1]
1442 is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into
1443 loose object files. However if the number of imported objects
1444 equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as a
1445 pack. Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the import
1446 operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If
1447 not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
1449 fetch.recurseSubmodules::
1450 This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'.
1451 Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to
1452 unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not
1453 recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default
1454 value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule
1455 when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's
1459 If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched
1460 objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a
1461 broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.
1462 Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
1466 If the number of objects fetched over the Git native
1467 transfer is below this
1468 limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
1469 files. However if the number of received objects equals or
1470 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as
1471 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the
1472 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster,
1473 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
1474 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
1477 If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the `--prune`
1478 option was given on the command line. See also `remote.<name>.prune`
1479 and the PRUNING section of linkgit:git-fetch[1].
1482 If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the
1483 `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` refspec was provided when pruning,
1484 if not set already. This allows for setting both this option
1485 and `fetch.prune` to maintain a 1=1 mapping to upstream
1486 refs. See also `remote.<name>.pruneTags` and the PRUNING
1487 section of linkgit:git-fetch[1].
1490 Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are
1491 `full` and `compact`. Default value is `full`. See section
1492 OUTPUT in linkgit:git-fetch[1] for detail.
1494 fetch.negotiationAlgorithm::
1495 Control how information about the commits in the local repository is
1496 sent when negotiating the contents of the packfile to be sent by the
1497 server. Set to "skipping" to use an algorithm that skips commits in an
1498 effort to converge faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary
1499 packfile; The default is "default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm
1500 that never skips commits (unless the server has acknowledged it or one
1501 of its descendants).
1502 Unknown values will cause 'git fetch' to error out.
1504 See also the `--negotiation-tip` option for linkgit:git-fetch[1].
1507 Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for
1508 'format-patch'. The value can also be a double quoted string
1509 which will enable attachments as the default and set the
1510 value as the boundary. See the --attach option in
1511 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1514 Provides the default value for the `--from` option to format-patch.
1515 Accepts a boolean value, or a name and email address. If false,
1516 format-patch defaults to `--no-from`, using commit authors directly in
1517 the "From:" field of patch mails. If true, format-patch defaults to
1518 `--from`, using your committer identity in the "From:" field of patch
1519 mails and including a "From:" field in the body of the patch mail if
1520 different. If set to a non-boolean value, format-patch uses that
1521 value instead of your committer identity. Defaults to false.
1524 A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch
1525 subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there
1526 is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all
1527 messages by setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered
1528 option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1531 Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted
1532 by mail. See linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1536 Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted
1537 by mail. See the --to and --cc options in
1538 linkgit:git-format-patch[1].
1540 format.subjectPrefix::
1541 The default for format-patch is to output files with the '[PATCH]'
1542 subject prefix. Use this variable to change that prefix.
1545 The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing
1546 the Git version number. Use this variable to change that default.
1547 Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress
1548 signature generation.
1550 format.signatureFile::
1551 Works just like format.signature except the contents of the
1552 file specified by this variable will be used as the signature.
1555 The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix
1556 `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to
1557 include the dot if you want it).
1560 The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command,
1561 See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1],
1562 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1].
1565 The default threading style for 'git format-patch'. Can be
1566 a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading
1567 makes every mail a reply to the head of the series,
1568 where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the
1569 `--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order.
1570 `deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one.
1571 A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false
1572 value disables threading.
1575 A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of
1576 format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a
1577 patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have
1578 the rights to submit this work under the same open source license.
1579 Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion.
1581 format.coverLetter::
1582 A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when
1583 format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to
1584 generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch.
1586 format.outputDirectory::
1587 Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the
1588 current working directory.
1590 format.useAutoBase::
1591 A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of
1592 format-patch by default.
1594 filter.<driver>.clean::
1595 The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree
1596 file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for
1599 filter.<driver>.smudge::
1600 The command which is used to convert the content of a blob
1601 object to a worktree file upon checkout. See
1602 linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
1605 Allows overriding the message type (error, warn or ignore) of a
1606 specific message ID such as `missingEmail`.
1608 For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message ID,
1609 e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing email" means
1610 that setting `fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue.
1612 This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories
1613 which cannot be repaired without disruptive changes.
1616 The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per
1617 line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
1618 be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project
1619 should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that
1620 can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
1621 Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
1623 gc.aggressiveDepth::
1624 The depth parameter used in the delta compression
1625 algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
1628 gc.aggressiveWindow::
1629 The window size parameter used in the delta compression
1630 algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
1634 When there are approximately more than this many loose
1635 objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them.
1636 Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a
1637 light-weight garbage collection from time to time. The
1638 default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables it.
1641 When there are more than this many packs that are not
1642 marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc
1643 --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The
1644 default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
1647 Make `git gc --auto` return immediately and run in background
1648 if the system supports it. Default is true.
1650 gc.bigPackThreshold::
1651 If non-zero, all packs larger than this limit are kept when
1652 `git gc` is run. This is very similar to `--keep-base-pack`
1653 except that all packs that meet the threshold are kept, not
1654 just the base pack. Defaults to zero. Common unit suffixes of
1655 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
1657 Note that if the number of kept packs is more than gc.autoPackLimit,
1658 this configuration variable is ignored, all packs except the base pack
1659 will be repacked. After this the number of packs should go below
1660 gc.autoPackLimit and gc.bigPackThreshold should be respected again.
1663 If the file gc.log exists, then `git gc --auto` won't run
1664 unless that file is more than 'gc.logExpiry' old. Default is
1665 "1.day". See `gc.pruneExpire` for more ways to specify its
1669 Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it
1670 unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb
1671 transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether
1672 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `notbare`
1673 to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a
1674 boolean value. The default is `true`.
1677 When 'git gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'.
1678 Override the grace period with this config variable. The value
1679 "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune
1680 unreachable objects immediately, or "never" may be used to
1681 suppress pruning. This feature helps prevent corruption when
1682 'git gc' runs concurrently with another process writing to the
1683 repository; see the "NOTES" section of linkgit:git-gc[1].
1685 gc.worktreePruneExpire::
1686 When 'git gc' is run, it calls
1687 'git worktree prune --expire 3.months.ago'.
1688 This config variable can be used to set a different grace
1689 period. The value "now" may be used to disable the grace
1690 period and prune `$GIT_DIR/worktrees` immediately, or "never"
1691 may be used to suppress pruning.
1694 gc.<pattern>.reflogExpire::
1695 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
1696 this time; defaults to 90 days. The value "now" expires all
1697 entries immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration
1698 altogether. With "<pattern>" (e.g.
1699 "refs/stash") in the middle the setting applies only to
1700 the refs that match the <pattern>.
1702 gc.reflogExpireUnreachable::
1703 gc.<pattern>.reflogExpireUnreachable::
1704 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
1705 this time and are not reachable from the current tip;
1706 defaults to 30 days. The value "now" expires all entries
1707 immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration altogether.
1708 With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash")
1709 in the middle, the setting applies only to the refs that
1710 match the <pattern>.
1713 Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are
1714 kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
1715 You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc.
1716 The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
1718 gc.rerereUnresolved::
1719 Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are
1720 kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run.
1721 You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc.
1722 The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
1724 gitcvs.commitMsgAnnotation::
1725 Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string
1726 to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator".
1729 Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository.
1730 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1733 Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs
1734 various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1736 gitcvs.usecrlfattr::
1737 If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion
1738 attributes for files to determine the `-k` modes to use. If
1739 the attributes force Git to treat a file as text,
1740 the `-k` mode will be left blank so CVS clients will
1741 treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file
1742 will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging
1743 the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow
1744 the file type to be determined, then `gitcvs.allBinary` is
1745 used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
1748 This is used if `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` does not resolve
1749 the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all
1750 unresolved files are sent to the client in
1751 mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them
1752 as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it
1753 otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess",
1754 then the contents of the file are examined to decide if
1755 it is binary, similar to `core.autocrlf`.
1758 Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
1759 derived from the Git repository. The exact meaning depends on the
1760 used database driver, for SQLite (which is the default driver) this
1761 is a filename. Supports variable substitution (see
1762 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). May not contain semicolons (`;`).
1763 Default: '%Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite'
1766 Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver
1767 for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested
1768 with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with 'DBD::Pg', and
1769 reported *not* to work with 'DBD::mysql'. Experimental feature.
1770 May not contain double colons (`:`). Default: 'SQLite'.
1771 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
1773 gitcvs.dbUser, gitcvs.dbPass::
1774 Database user and password. Only useful if setting `gitcvs.dbDriver`,
1775 since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords.
1776 'gitcvs.dbUser' supports variable substitution (see
1777 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).
1779 gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix::
1780 Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any
1781 database tables used, allowing a single database to be used
1782 for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see
1783 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic
1784 characters will be replaced with underscores.
1786 All gitcvs variables except for `gitcvs.usecrlfattr` and
1787 `gitcvs.allBinary` can also be specified as
1788 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
1789 is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
1793 gitweb.description::
1796 See linkgit:gitweb[1] for description.
1804 gitweb.remote_heads::
1807 See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for description.
1810 If set to true, enable `-n` option by default.
1813 Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended',
1814 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the `--basic-regexp`, `--extended-regexp`,
1815 `--fixed-strings`, or `--perl-regexp` option accordingly, while the
1816 value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior.
1818 grep.extendedRegexp::
1819 If set to true, enable `--extended-regexp` option by default. This
1820 option is ignored when the `grep.patternType` option is set to a value
1821 other than 'default'.
1824 Number of grep worker threads to use.
1825 See `grep.threads` in linkgit:git-grep[1] for more information.
1827 grep.fallbackToNoIndex::
1828 If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep
1829 is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
1832 Use this custom program instead of "`gpg`" found on `$PATH` when
1833 making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the
1834 same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached
1835 signature, "`gpg --verify $file - <$signature`" is run, and the
1836 program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with
1837 code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the
1838 standard input of "`gpg -bsau $key`" is fed with the contents to be
1839 signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its
1842 gui.commitMsgWidth::
1843 Defines how wide the commit message window is in the
1844 linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
1847 Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff
1848 made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
1850 gui.displayUntracked::
1851 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] shows untracked files
1852 in the file list. The default is "true".
1855 Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
1856 file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
1857 It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute
1858 for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
1859 If this option is not set, the tools default to the
1862 gui.matchTrackingBranch::
1863 Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should
1864 default to tracking remote branches with matching names or
1865 not. Default: "false".
1867 gui.newBranchTemplate::
1868 Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the
1871 gui.pruneDuringFetch::
1872 "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when
1873 performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
1876 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] should trust the file modification
1877 timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.
1879 gui.spellingDictionary::
1880 Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in
1881 the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned
1885 If true, 'git gui blame' uses `-C` instead of `-C -C` for original
1886 location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge
1887 repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.
1889 gui.copyBlameThreshold::
1890 Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location
1891 detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the
1892 linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection.
1894 gui.blamehistoryctx::
1895 Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in
1896 linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History
1897 Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this
1898 variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.
1900 guitool.<name>.cmd::
1901 Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item
1902 of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is
1903 mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of
1904 the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of
1905 the tool as `GIT_GUITOOL`, the name of the currently selected file as
1906 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if
1907 the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty).
1909 guitool.<name>.needsFile::
1910 Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees
1911 that 'FILENAME' is not empty.
1913 guitool.<name>.noConsole::
1914 Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its
1917 guitool.<name>.noRescan::
1918 Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool
1921 guitool.<name>.confirm::
1922 Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
1924 guitool.<name>.argPrompt::
1925 Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool
1926 through the `ARGS` environment variable. Since requesting an
1927 argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect
1928 if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1',
1929 the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact
1930 value of the variable is used.
1932 guitool.<name>.revPrompt::
1933 Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
1934 `REVISION` environment variable. In other aspects this option
1935 is similar to 'argPrompt', and can be used together with it.
1937 guitool.<name>.revUnmerged::
1938 Show only unmerged branches in the 'revPrompt' subdialog.
1939 This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not
1940 for things like checkout or reset.
1942 guitool.<name>.title::
1943 Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default
1946 guitool.<name>.prompt::
1947 Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of
1948 the dialog, before subsections for 'argPrompt' and 'revPrompt'.
1949 The default value includes the actual command.
1952 Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the
1953 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
1956 Override the default help format used by linkgit:git-help[1].
1957 Values 'man', 'info', 'web' and 'html' are supported. 'man' is
1958 the default. 'web' and 'html' are the same.
1961 Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after
1962 waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more
1963 than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing
1964 will be executed. If the value of this option is negative,
1965 the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the
1966 value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed.
1967 This is the default.
1970 Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File system paths
1971 and URLs are supported. HTML pages will be prefixed with this path when
1972 help is displayed in the 'web' format. This defaults to the documentation
1973 path of your Git installation.
1976 Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy',
1977 'https_proxy', and 'all_proxy' environment variables (see `curl(1)`). In
1978 addition to the syntax understood by curl, it is possible to specify a
1979 proxy string with a user name but no password, in which case git will
1980 attempt to acquire one in the same way it does for other credentials. See
1981 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information. The syntax thus is
1982 '[protocol://][user[:password]@]proxyhost[:port]'. This can be overridden
1983 on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy
1985 http.proxyAuthMethod::
1986 Set the method with which to authenticate against the HTTP proxy. This
1987 only takes effect if the configured proxy string contains a user name part
1988 (i.e. is of the form 'user@host' or 'user@host:port'). This can be
1989 overridden on a per-remote basis; see `remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod`.
1990 Both can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD` environment
1991 variable. Possible values are:
1994 * `anyauth` - Automatically pick a suitable authentication method. It is
1995 assumed that the proxy answers an unauthenticated request with a 407
1996 status code and one or more Proxy-authenticate headers with supported
1997 authentication methods. This is the default.
1998 * `basic` - HTTP Basic authentication
1999 * `digest` - HTTP Digest authentication; this prevents the password from being
2000 transmitted to the proxy in clear text
2001 * `negotiate` - GSS-Negotiate authentication (compare the --negotiate option
2003 * `ntlm` - NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of `curl(1)`)
2007 Attempt authentication without seeking a username or password. This
2008 can be used to attempt GSS-Negotiate authentication without specifying
2009 a username in the URL, as libcurl normally requires a username for
2013 Control GSSAPI credential delegation. The delegation is disabled
2014 by default in libcurl since version 7.21.7. Set parameter to tell
2015 the server what it is allowed to delegate when it comes to user
2016 credentials. Used with GSS/kerberos. Possible values are:
2019 * `none` - Don't allow any delegation.
2020 * `policy` - Delegates if and only if the OK-AS-DELEGATE flag is set in the
2021 Kerberos service ticket, which is a matter of realm policy.
2022 * `always` - Unconditionally allow the server to delegate.
2027 Pass an additional HTTP header when communicating with a server. If
2028 more than one such entry exists, all of them are added as extra
2029 headers. To allow overriding the settings inherited from the system
2030 config, an empty value will reset the extra headers to the empty list.
2033 The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines,
2034 which should be used
2035 in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format
2036 of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
2037 the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see `curl(1)`).
2038 NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as
2039 input unless http.saveCookies is set.
2042 If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by
2043 http.cookieFile. Has no effect if http.cookieFile is unset.
2046 The SSL version to use when negotiating an SSL connection, if you
2047 want to force the default. The available and default version
2048 depend on whether libcurl was built against NSS or OpenSSL and the
2049 particular configuration of the crypto library in use. Internally
2050 this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_VERSION' option; see the libcurl
2051 documentation for more details on the format of this option and
2052 for the ssl version supported. Actually the possible values of
2064 Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_VERSION` environment variable.
2065 To force git to use libcurl's default ssl version and ignore any
2066 explicit http.sslversion option, set `GIT_SSL_VERSION` to the
2069 http.sslCipherList::
2070 A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection.
2071 The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl was built against
2072 NSS or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto
2073 library in use. Internally this sets the 'CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST'
2074 option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format
2077 Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` environment variable.
2078 To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list and ignore any
2079 explicit http.sslCipherList option, set `GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST` to the
2083 Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
2084 over HTTPS. Defaults to true. Can be overridden by the
2085 `GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY` environment variable.
2088 File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
2089 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_CERT` environment
2093 File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing
2094 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the `GIT_SSL_KEY` environment
2097 http.sslCertPasswordProtected::
2098 Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise
2099 OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the
2100 certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the
2101 `GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED` environment variable.
2104 File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when
2105 fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
2106 `GIT_SSL_CAINFO` environment variable.
2109 Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer
2110 with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden
2111 by the `GIT_SSL_CAPATH` environment variable.
2114 Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of
2115 a PEM or DER encoded public key file or a string starting with
2116 'sha256//' followed by the base64 encoded sha256 hash of the
2117 public key. See also libcurl 'CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY'. git will
2118 exit with an error if this option is set but not supported by
2122 Attempt to use AUTH SSL/TLS and encrypted data transfers
2123 when connecting via regular FTP protocol. This might be needed
2124 if the FTP server requires it for security reasons or you wish
2125 to connect securely whenever remote FTP server supports it.
2126 Default is false since it might trigger certificate verification
2127 errors on misconfigured servers.
2130 How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden
2131 by the `GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS` environment variable. Default is 5.
2134 The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across
2135 requests. They will not be ended with curl_easy_cleanup() until
2136 http_cleanup() is invoked. If USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this
2137 value will be capped at 1. Defaults to 1.
2140 Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP
2141 transports when POSTing data to the remote system.
2142 For requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and
2143 Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a
2144 massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is
2145 sufficient for most requests.
2147 http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::
2148 If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'
2149 for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.
2150 Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT` and
2151 `GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME` environment variables.
2154 A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
2155 This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
2156 support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the `GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV`
2157 environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
2160 The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default
2161 value represents the version of the client Git such as git/1.7.1.
2162 This option allows you to override this value to a more common value
2163 such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if
2164 connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set
2165 of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1).
2166 Can be overridden by the `GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT` environment variable.
2168 http.followRedirects::
2169 Whether git should follow HTTP redirects. If set to `true`, git
2170 will transparently follow any redirect issued by a server it
2171 encounters. If set to `false`, git will treat all redirects as
2172 errors. If set to `initial`, git will follow redirects only for
2173 the initial request to a remote, but not for subsequent
2174 follow-up HTTP requests. Since git uses the redirected URL as
2175 the base for the follow-up requests, this is generally
2176 sufficient. The default is `initial`.
2179 Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs.
2180 For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config key is
2181 compared to that of the URL, in the following order:
2184 . Scheme (e.g., `https` in `https://example.com/`). This field
2185 must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
2187 . Host/domain name (e.g., `example.com` in `https://example.com/`).
2188 This field must match between the config key and the URL. It is
2189 possible to specify a `*` as part of the host name to match all subdomains
2190 at this level. `https://*.example.com/` for example would match
2191 `https://foo.example.com/`, but not `https://foo.bar.example.com/`.
2193 . Port number (e.g., `8080` in `http://example.com:8080/`).
2194 This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
2195 Omitted port numbers are automatically converted to the correct
2196 default for the scheme before matching.
2198 . Path (e.g., `repo.git` in `https://example.com/repo.git`). The
2199 path field of the config key must match the path field of the URL
2200 either exactly or as a prefix of slash-delimited path elements. This means
2201 a config key with path `foo/` matches URL path `foo/bar`. A prefix can only
2202 match on a slash (`/`) boundary. Longer matches take precedence (so a config
2203 key with path `foo/bar` is a better match to URL path `foo/bar` than a config
2204 key with just path `foo/`).
2206 . User name (e.g., `user` in `https://user@example.com/repo.git`). If
2207 the config key has a user name it must match the user name in the
2208 URL exactly. If the config key does not have a user name, that
2209 config key will match a URL with any user name (including none),
2210 but at a lower precedence than a config key with a user name.
2213 The list above is ordered by decreasing precedence; a URL that matches
2214 a config key's path is preferred to one that matches its user name. For example,
2215 if the URL is `https://user@example.com/foo/bar` a config key match of
2216 `https://example.com/foo` will be preferred over a config key match of
2217 `https://user@example.com`.
2219 All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part,
2220 if embedded in the URL, is always ignored for matching purposes) so that
2221 equivalent URLs that are simply spelled differently will match properly.
2222 Environment variable settings always override any matches. The URLs that are
2223 matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs
2224 visited as a result of a redirection do not participate in matching.
2227 By default, Git determines the command line arguments to use
2228 based on the basename of the configured SSH command (configured
2229 using the environment variable `GIT_SSH` or `GIT_SSH_COMMAND` or
2230 the config setting `core.sshCommand`). If the basename is
2231 unrecognized, Git will attempt to detect support of OpenSSH
2232 options by first invoking the configured SSH command with the
2233 `-G` (print configuration) option and will subsequently use
2234 OpenSSH options (if that is successful) or no options besides
2235 the host and remote command (if it fails).
2237 The config variable `ssh.variant` can be set to override this detection.
2238 Valid values are `ssh` (to use OpenSSH options), `plink`, `putty`,
2239 `tortoiseplink`, `simple` (no options except the host and remote command).
2240 The default auto-detection can be explicitly requested using the value
2241 `auto`. Any other value is treated as `ssh`. This setting can also be
2242 overridden via the environment variable `GIT_SSH_VARIANT`.
2244 The current command-line parameters used for each variant are as
2249 * `ssh` - [-p port] [-4] [-6] [-o option] [username@]host command
2251 * `simple` - [username@]host command
2253 * `plink` or `putty` - [-P port] [-4] [-6] [username@]host command
2255 * `tortoiseplink` - [-P port] [-4] [-6] -batch [username@]host command
2259 Except for the `simple` variant, command-line parameters are likely to
2260 change as git gains new features.
2262 i18n.commitEncoding::
2263 Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself
2264 does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when
2265 importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history
2266 browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other
2267 porcelains). See e.g. linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]. Defaults to 'utf-8'.
2269 i18n.logOutputEncoding::
2270 Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when
2271 running 'git log' and friends.
2274 The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
2275 in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
2278 Specify the version with which new index files should be
2279 initialized. This does not affect existing repositories.
2282 Specify the directory from which templates will be copied.
2283 (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
2286 Specify the program that will be used to browse your working
2287 repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2290 The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working
2291 repository. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2294 If true the web server started by linkgit:git-instaweb[1] will
2295 be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
2297 instaweb.modulePath::
2298 The default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use
2299 instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd
2303 The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
2304 linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
2306 interactive.singleKey::
2307 In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter
2308 input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter).
2309 Currently this is used by the `--patch` mode of
2310 linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], linkgit:git-commit[1],
2311 linkgit:git-reset[1], and linkgit:git-stash[1]. Note that this
2312 setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input
2313 is not available; requires the Perl module Term::ReadKey.
2315 interactive.diffFilter::
2316 When an interactive command (such as `git add --patch`) shows
2317 a colorized diff, git will pipe the diff through the shell
2318 command defined by this configuration variable. The command may
2319 mark up the diff further for human consumption, provided that it
2320 retains a one-to-one correspondence with the lines in the
2321 original diff. Defaults to disabled (no filtering).
2324 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2325 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--abbrev-commit`. You may
2326 override this option with `--no-abbrev-commit`.
2329 Set the default date-time mode for the 'log' command.
2330 Setting a value for log.date is similar to using 'git log''s
2331 `--date` option. See linkgit:git-log[1] for details.
2334 Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log
2335 command. If 'short' is specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/',
2336 'refs/tags/' and 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is
2337 specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed.
2338 If 'auto' is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal,
2339 the ref names are shown as if 'short' were given, otherwise no ref
2340 names are shown. This is the same as the `--decorate` option
2344 If `true`, `git log` will act as if the `--follow` option was used when
2345 a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as `--follow`,
2346 i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well
2347 on non-linear history.
2350 A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to draw
2351 history lines in `git log --graph`.
2354 If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event.
2355 This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.
2356 Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which
2357 normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
2360 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2361 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--show-signature`.
2364 If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
2365 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`.
2368 If true, makes linkgit:git-mailinfo[1] (and therefore
2369 linkgit:git-am[1]) act by default as if the --scissors option
2370 was provided on the command-line. When active, this features
2371 removes everything from the message body before a scissors
2372 line (i.e. consisting mainly of ">8", "8<" and "-").
2375 The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default
2376 mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded
2377 first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable.
2378 The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository
2379 subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself.
2380 See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1].
2383 Like `mailmap.file`, but consider the value as a reference to a
2384 blob in the repository. If both `mailmap.file` and
2385 `mailmap.blob` are given, both are parsed, with entries from
2386 `mailmap.file` taking precedence. In a bare repository, this
2387 defaults to `HEAD:.mailmap`. In a non-bare repository, it
2391 Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the
2392 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
2395 Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The
2396 specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page
2397 passed as argument. (See linkgit:git-help[1].)
2400 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
2401 display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
2403 include::merge-config.txt[]
2405 mergetool.<tool>.path::
2406 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
2407 your tool is not in the PATH.
2409 mergetool.<tool>.cmd::
2410 Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The
2411 specified command is evaluated in shell with the following
2412 variables available: 'BASE' is the name of a temporary file
2413 containing the common base of the files to be merged, if available;
2414 'LOCAL' is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of
2415 the file on the current branch; 'REMOTE' is the name of a temporary
2416 file containing the contents of the file from the branch being
2417 merged; 'MERGED' contains the name of the file to which the merge
2418 tool should write the results of a successful merge.
2420 mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode::
2421 For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of
2422 the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was
2423 successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file
2424 timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful
2425 if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to
2426 indicate the success of the merge.
2428 mergetool.meld.hasOutput::
2429 Older versions of `meld` do not support the `--output` option.
2430 Git will attempt to detect whether `meld` supports `--output`
2431 by inspecting the output of `meld --help`. Configuring
2432 `mergetool.meld.hasOutput` will make Git skip these checks and
2433 use the configured value instead. Setting `mergetool.meld.hasOutput`
2434 to `true` tells Git to unconditionally use the `--output` option,
2435 and `false` avoids using `--output`.
2437 mergetool.keepBackup::
2438 After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers
2439 can be saved as a file with a `.orig` extension. If this variable
2440 is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to
2441 `true` (i.e. keep the backup files).
2443 mergetool.keepTemporaries::
2444 When invoking a custom merge tool, Git uses a set of temporary
2445 files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this
2446 variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be
2447 preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has
2448 exited. Defaults to `false`.
2450 mergetool.writeToTemp::
2451 Git writes temporary 'BASE', 'LOCAL', and 'REMOTE' versions of
2452 conflicting files in the worktree by default. Git will attempt
2453 to use a temporary directory for these files when set `true`.
2454 Defaults to `false`.
2457 Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
2459 notes.mergeStrategy::
2460 Which merge strategy to choose by default when resolving notes
2461 conflicts. Must be one of `manual`, `ours`, `theirs`, `union`, or
2462 `cat_sort_uniq`. Defaults to `manual`. See "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES"
2463 section of linkgit:git-notes[1] for more information on each strategy.
2465 notes.<name>.mergeStrategy::
2466 Which merge strategy to choose when doing a notes merge into
2467 refs/notes/<name>. This overrides the more general
2468 "notes.mergeStrategy". See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section in
2469 linkgit:git-notes[1] for more information on the available strategies.
2472 The (fully qualified) refname from which to show notes when
2473 showing commit messages. The value of this variable can be set
2474 to a glob, in which case notes from all matching refs will be
2475 shown. You may also specify this configuration variable
2476 several times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not
2477 exist, but a glob that does not match any refs is silently
2480 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF`
2481 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
2484 The effective value of "core.notesRef" (possibly overridden by
2485 GIT_NOTES_REF) is also implicitly added to the list of refs to be
2488 notes.rewrite.<command>::
2489 When rewriting commits with <command> (currently `amend` or
2490 `rebase`) and this variable is set to `true`, Git
2491 automatically copies your notes from the original to the
2492 rewritten commit. Defaults to `true`, but see
2493 "notes.rewriteRef" below.
2496 When copying notes during a rewrite (see the
2497 "notes.rewrite.<command>" option), determines what to do if
2498 the target commit already has a note. Must be one of
2499 `overwrite`, `concatenate`, `cat_sort_uniq`, or `ignore`.
2500 Defaults to `concatenate`.
2502 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE`
2503 environment variable.
2506 When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully
2507 qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. The ref may be a
2508 glob, in which case notes in all matching refs will be copied.
2509 You may also specify this configuration several times.
2511 Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
2512 enable note rewriting. Set it to `refs/notes/commits` to enable
2513 rewriting for the default commit notes.
2515 This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`
2516 environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
2520 The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
2521 window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
2524 The maximum delta depth used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
2525 maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
2526 Maximum value is 4095.
2529 The maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread
2530 in linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] for pack window memory when
2531 no limit is given on the command line. The value can be
2532 suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". When left unconfigured (or
2533 set explicitly to 0), there will be no limit.
2536 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects
2537 in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
2538 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being
2539 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is
2540 not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default
2541 compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent
2544 Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress
2545 all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option
2546 to linkgit:git-repack[1].
2548 pack.deltaCacheSize::
2549 The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in
2550 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] before writing them out to a pack.
2551 This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not
2552 having to recompute the final delta result once the best match
2553 for all objects is found. Repacking large repositories on machines
2554 which are tight with memory might be badly impacted by this though,
2555 especially if this cache pushes the system into swapping.
2556 A value of 0 means no limit. The smallest size of 1 byte may be
2557 used to virtually disable this cache. Defaults to 256 MiB.
2559 pack.deltaCacheLimit::
2560 The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in
2561 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. This cache is used to speed up the
2562 writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta
2563 result once the best match for all objects is found.
2564 Defaults to 1000. Maximum value is 65535.
2567 Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best
2568 delta matches. This requires that linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]
2569 be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a
2570 warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor
2571 machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window
2572 is however multiplied by the number of threads.
2573 Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's
2574 and set the number of threads accordingly.
2577 Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for
2578 legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for
2579 the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB
2580 as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted
2581 packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced
2582 and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is
2585 If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 `*.idx` file,
2586 cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http")
2587 that will copy both `*.pack` file and corresponding `*.idx` file from the
2588 other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your
2589 older version of Git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,
2590 you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate
2593 pack.packSizeLimit::
2594 The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects
2595 packing to a file when repacking, i.e. the git:// protocol
2596 is unaffected. It can be overridden by the `--max-pack-size`
2597 option of linkgit:git-repack[1]. Reaching this limit results
2598 in the creation of multiple packfiles; which in turn prevents
2599 bitmaps from being created.
2600 The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB.
2601 The default is unlimited.
2602 Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are
2606 When true, git will use pack bitmaps (if available) when packing
2607 to stdout (e.g., during the server side of a fetch). Defaults to
2608 true. You should not generally need to turn this off unless
2609 you are debugging pack bitmaps.
2611 pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated)::
2612 This is a deprecated synonym for `repack.writeBitmaps`.
2614 pack.writeBitmapHashCache::
2615 When true, git will include a "hash cache" section in the bitmap
2616 index (if one is written). This cache can be used to feed git's
2617 delta heuristics, potentially leading to better deltas between
2618 bitmapped and non-bitmapped objects (e.g., when serving a fetch
2619 between an older, bitmapped pack and objects that have been
2620 pushed since the last gc). The downside is that it consumes 4
2621 bytes per object of disk space, and that JGit's bitmap
2622 implementation does not understand it, causing it to complain if
2623 Git and JGit are used on the same repository. Defaults to false.
2626 If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the
2627 output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty.
2628 Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the
2629 pager specified by the value of `pager.<cmd>`. If `--paginate`
2630 or `--no-pager` is specified on the command line, it takes
2631 precedence over this option. To disable pagination for all
2632 commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`.
2635 Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
2636 linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just
2637 as the built-in pretty formats could. For example,
2638 running `git config pretty.changelog "format:* %H %s"`
2639 would cause the invocation `git log --pretty=changelog`
2640 to be equivalent to running `git log "--pretty=format:* %H %s"`.
2641 Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format
2642 will be silently ignored.
2645 If set, provide a user defined default policy for all protocols which
2646 don't explicitly have a policy (`protocol.<name>.allow`). By default,
2647 if unset, known-safe protocols (http, https, git, ssh, file) have a
2648 default policy of `always`, known-dangerous protocols (ext) have a
2649 default policy of `never`, and all other protocols have a default
2650 policy of `user`. Supported policies:
2654 * `always` - protocol is always able to be used.
2656 * `never` - protocol is never able to be used.
2658 * `user` - protocol is only able to be used when `GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER` is
2659 either unset or has a value of 1. This policy should be used when you want a
2660 protocol to be directly usable by the user but don't want it used by commands which
2661 execute clone/fetch/push commands without user input, e.g. recursive
2662 submodule initialization.
2666 protocol.<name>.allow::
2667 Set a policy to be used by protocol `<name>` with clone/fetch/push
2668 commands. See `protocol.allow` above for the available policies.
2670 The protocol names currently used by git are:
2673 - `file`: any local file-based path (including `file://` URLs,
2676 - `git`: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP
2677 connection (or proxy, if configured)
2679 - `ssh`: git over ssh (including `host:path` syntax,
2682 - `http`: git over http, both "smart http" and "dumb http".
2683 Note that this does _not_ include `https`; if you want to configure
2684 both, you must do so individually.
2686 - any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use
2687 `hg` to allow the `git-remote-hg` helper)
2691 Experimental. If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a
2692 server using the specified protocol version. If unset, no
2693 attempt will be made by the client to communicate using a
2694 particular protocol version, this results in protocol version 0
2700 * `0` - the original wire protocol.
2702 * `1` - the original wire protocol with the addition of a version string
2703 in the initial response from the server.
2708 By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when merging
2709 a commit that is a descendant of the current commit. Instead, the
2710 tip of the current branch is fast-forwarded. When set to `false`,
2711 this variable tells Git to create an extra merge commit in such
2712 a case (equivalent to giving the `--no-ff` option from the command
2713 line). When set to `only`, only such fast-forward merges are
2714 allowed (equivalent to giving the `--ff-only` option from the
2715 command line). This setting overrides `merge.ff` when pulling.
2718 When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead
2719 of merging the default branch from the default remote when "git
2720 pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a
2723 When `merges`, pass the `--rebase-merges` option to 'git rebase'
2724 so that the local merge commits are included in the rebase (see
2725 linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details).
2727 When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
2728 so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
2729 by running 'git pull'.
2731 When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
2733 *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
2734 it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
2738 The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
2742 The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
2745 Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is
2746 explicitly given. Different values are well-suited for
2747 specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central workflow
2748 (i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination),
2749 `upstream` is probably what you want. Possible values are:
2753 * `nothing` - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is
2754 explicitly given. This is primarily meant for people who want to
2755 avoid mistakes by always being explicit.
2757 * `current` - push the current branch to update a branch with the same
2758 name on the receiving end. Works in both central and non-central
2761 * `upstream` - push the current branch back to the branch whose
2762 changes are usually integrated into the current branch (which is
2763 called `@{upstream}`). This mode only makes sense if you are
2764 pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from
2765 (i.e. central workflow).
2767 * `tracking` - This is a deprecated synonym for `upstream`.
2769 * `simple` - in centralized workflow, work like `upstream` with an
2770 added safety to refuse to push if the upstream branch's name is
2771 different from the local one.
2773 When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally
2774 pull from, work as `current`. This is the safest option and is suited
2777 This mode has become the default in Git 2.0.
2779 * `matching` - push all branches having the same name on both ends.
2780 This makes the repository you are pushing to remember the set of
2781 branches that will be pushed out (e.g. if you always push 'maint'
2782 and 'master' there and no other branches, the repository you push
2783 to will have these two branches, and your local 'maint' and
2784 'master' will be pushed there).
2786 To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure _all_ the
2787 branches you would push out are ready to be pushed out before
2788 running 'git push', as the whole point of this mode is to allow you
2789 to push all of the branches in one go. If you usually finish work
2790 on only one branch and push out the result, while other branches are
2791 unfinished, this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not
2792 suitable for pushing into a shared central repository, as other
2793 people may add new branches there, or update the tip of existing
2794 branches outside your control.
2796 This used to be the default, but not since Git 2.0 (`simple` is the
2802 If set to true enable `--follow-tags` option by default. You
2803 may override this configuration at time of push by specifying
2807 May be set to a boolean value, or the string 'if-asked'. A true
2808 value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if `--signed` is
2809 passed to linkgit:git-push[1]. The string 'if-asked' causes
2810 pushes to be signed if the server supports it, as if
2811 `--signed=if-asked` is passed to 'git push'. A false value may
2812 override a value from a lower-priority config file. An explicit
2813 command-line flag always overrides this config option.
2816 When no `--push-option=<option>` argument is given from the
2817 command line, `git push` behaves as if each <value> of
2818 this variable is given as `--push-option=<value>`.
2820 This is a multi-valued variable, and an empty value can be used in a
2821 higher priority configuration file (e.g. `.git/config` in a
2822 repository) to clear the values inherited from a lower priority
2823 configuration files (e.g. `$HOME/.gitconfig`).
2840 This will result in only b (a and c are cleared).
2844 push.recurseSubmodules::
2845 Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed
2846 are available on a remote-tracking branch. If the value is 'check'
2847 then Git will verify that all submodule commits that changed in the
2848 revisions to be pushed are available on at least one remote of the
2849 submodule. If any commits are missing, the push will be aborted and
2850 exit with non-zero status. If the value is 'on-demand' then all
2851 submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be
2852 pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions
2853 it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If the value
2854 is 'no' then default behavior of ignoring submodules when pushing
2855 is retained. You may override this configuration at time of push by
2856 specifying '--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no'.
2858 include::rebase-config.txt[]
2860 receive.advertiseAtomic::
2861 By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push
2862 capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this
2863 capability, set this variable to false.
2865 receive.advertisePushOptions::
2866 When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options
2867 capability to its clients. False by default.
2870 By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
2871 receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop
2872 it by setting this variable to false.
2874 receive.certNonceSeed::
2875 By setting this variable to a string, `git receive-pack`
2876 will accept a `git push --signed` and verifies it by using
2877 a "nonce" protected by HMAC using this string as a secret
2880 receive.certNonceSlop::
2881 When a `git push --signed` sent a push certificate with a
2882 "nonce" that was issued by a receive-pack serving the same
2883 repository within this many seconds, export the "nonce"
2884 found in the certificate to `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE` to the
2885 hooks (instead of what the receive-pack asked the sending
2886 side to include). This may allow writing checks in
2887 `pre-receive` and `post-receive` a bit easier. Instead of
2888 checking `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP` environment variable
2889 that records by how many seconds the nonce is stale to
2890 decide if they want to accept the certificate, they only
2891 can check `GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS` is `OK`.
2893 receive.fsckObjects::
2894 If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received
2895 objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a
2896 broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.
2897 Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
2900 receive.fsck.<msg-id>::
2901 When `receive.fsckObjects` is set to true, errors can be switched
2902 to warnings and vice versa by configuring the `receive.fsck.<msg-id>`
2903 setting where the `<msg-id>` is the fsck message ID and the value
2904 is one of `error`, `warn` or `ignore`. For convenience, fsck prefixes
2905 the error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid
2906 author/committer line - missing email" means that setting
2907 `receive.fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue.
2909 This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories
2910 which would not pass pushing when `receive.fsckObjects = true`, allowing
2911 the host to accept repositories with certain known issues but still catch
2914 receive.fsck.skipList::
2915 The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per
2916 line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should
2917 be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project
2918 should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that
2919 can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses.
2920 Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
2923 After receiving the pack from the client, `receive-pack` may
2924 produce no output (if `--quiet` was specified) while processing
2925 the pack, causing some networks to drop the TCP connection.
2926 With this option set, if `receive-pack` does not transmit
2927 any data in this phase for `receive.keepAlive` seconds, it will
2928 send a short keepalive packet. The default is 5 seconds; set
2929 to 0 to disable keepalives entirely.
2931 receive.unpackLimit::
2932 If the number of objects received in a push is below this
2933 limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
2934 files. However if the number of received objects equals or
2935 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as
2936 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the
2937 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster,
2938 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
2939 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.
2941 receive.maxInputSize::
2942 If the size of the incoming pack stream is larger than this
2943 limit, then git-receive-pack will error out, instead of
2944 accepting the pack file. If not set or set to 0, then the size
2947 receive.denyDeletes::
2948 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes
2949 the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push.
2951 receive.denyDeleteCurrent::
2952 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that
2953 deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
2955 receive.denyCurrentBranch::
2956 If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update
2957 to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
2958 Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD
2959 out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn",
2960 print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to
2961 proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no
2962 message. Defaults to "refuse".
2964 Another option is "updateInstead" which will update the working
2965 tree if pushing into the current branch. This option is
2966 intended for synchronizing working directories when one side is not easily
2967 accessible via interactive ssh (e.g. a live web site, hence the requirement
2968 that the working directory be clean). This mode also comes in handy when
2969 developing inside a VM to test and fix code on different Operating Systems.
2971 By default, "updateInstead" will refuse the push if the working tree or
2972 the index have any difference from the HEAD, but the `push-to-checkout`
2973 hook can be used to customize this. See linkgit:githooks[5].
2975 receive.denyNonFastForwards::
2976 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is
2977 not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push,
2978 even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is
2979 set when initializing a shared repository.
2982 This variable is the same as `transfer.hideRefs`, but applies
2983 only to `receive-pack` (and so affects pushes, but not fetches).
2984 An attempt to update or delete a hidden ref by `git push` is
2987 receive.updateServerInfo::
2988 If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info
2989 after receiving data from git-push and updating refs.
2991 receive.shallowUpdate::
2992 If set to true, .git/shallow can be updated when new refs
2993 require new shallow roots. Otherwise those refs are rejected.
2995 remote.pushDefault::
2996 The remote to push to by default. Overrides
2997 `branch.<name>.remote` for all branches, and is overridden by
2998 `branch.<name>.pushRemote` for specific branches.
3001 The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or
3002 linkgit:git-push[1].
3004 remote.<name>.pushurl::
3005 The push URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-push[1].
3007 remote.<name>.proxy::
3008 For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL to
3009 the proxy to use for that remote. Set to the empty string to
3010 disable proxying for that remote.
3012 remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod::
3013 For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the method to use for
3014 authenticating against the proxy in use (probably set in
3015 `remote.<name>.proxy`). See `http.proxyAuthMethod`.
3017 remote.<name>.fetch::
3018 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-fetch[1]. See
3019 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3021 remote.<name>.push::
3022 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-push[1]. See
3023 linkgit:git-push[1].
3025 remote.<name>.mirror::
3026 If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave
3027 as if the `--mirror` option was given on the command line.
3029 remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate::
3030 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
3031 using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
3032 linkgit:git-remote[1].
3034 remote.<name>.skipFetchAll::
3035 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
3036 using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of
3037 linkgit:git-remote[1].
3039 remote.<name>.receivepack::
3040 The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See
3041 option --receive-pack of linkgit:git-push[1].
3043 remote.<name>.uploadpack::
3044 The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See
3045 option --upload-pack of linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1].
3047 remote.<name>.tagOpt::
3048 Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag following when
3049 fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to --tags will fetch every
3050 tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote
3051 branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can
3052 override this setting. See options --tags and --no-tags of
3053 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3056 Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with
3057 the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper.
3059 remote.<name>.prune::
3060 When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also
3061 remove any remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the
3062 remote (as if the `--prune` option was given on the command line).
3063 Overrides `fetch.prune` settings, if any.
3065 remote.<name>.pruneTags::
3066 When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also
3067 remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote if pruning
3068 is activated in general via `remote.<name>.prune`, `fetch.prune` or
3069 `--prune`. Overrides `fetch.pruneTags` settings, if any.
3071 See also `remote.<name>.prune` and the PRUNING section of
3072 linkgit:git-fetch[1].
3075 The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update
3076 <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1].
3078 repack.useDeltaBaseOffset::
3079 By default, linkgit:git-repack[1] creates packs that use
3080 delta-base offset. If you need to share your repository with
3081 Git older than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb
3082 protocol such as http, then you need to set this option to
3083 "false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the
3084 native protocol are unaffected by this option.
3086 repack.packKeptObjects::
3087 If set to true, makes `git repack` act as if
3088 `--pack-kept-objects` was passed. See linkgit:git-repack[1] for
3089 details. Defaults to `false` normally, but `true` if a bitmap
3090 index is being written (either via `--write-bitmap-index` or
3091 `repack.writeBitmaps`).
3093 repack.writeBitmaps::
3094 When true, git will write a bitmap index when packing all
3095 objects to disk (e.g., when `git repack -a` is run). This
3096 index can speed up the "counting objects" phase of subsequent
3097 packs created for clones and fetches, at the cost of some disk
3098 space and extra time spent on the initial repack. This has
3099 no effect if multiple packfiles are created.
3103 When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the
3104 resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using
3105 previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false.
3108 Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical
3109 conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they be
3110 encountered again. By default, linkgit:git-rerere[1] is
3111 enabled if there is an `rr-cache` directory under the
3112 `$GIT_DIR`, e.g. if "rerere" was previously used in the
3115 sendemail.identity::
3116 A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the
3117 'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over
3118 values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is
3119 the value of `sendemail.identity`.
3121 sendemail.smtpEncryption::
3122 See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this
3123 setting is not subject to the 'identity' mechanism.
3125 sendemail.smtpssl (deprecated)::
3126 Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpEncryption = ssl'.
3128 sendemail.smtpsslcertpath::
3129 Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file).
3130 Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification.
3132 sendemail.<identity>.*::
3133 Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters
3134 found below, taking precedence over those when this
3135 identity is selected, through either the command-line or
3136 `sendemail.identity`.
3138 sendemail.aliasesFile::
3139 sendemail.aliasFileType::
3140 sendemail.annotate::
3144 sendemail.chainReplyTo::
3146 sendemail.envelopeSender::
3148 sendemail.multiEdit::
3149 sendemail.signedoffbycc::
3150 sendemail.smtpPass::
3151 sendemail.suppresscc::
3152 sendemail.suppressFrom::
3155 sendemail.smtpDomain::
3156 sendemail.smtpServer::
3157 sendemail.smtpServerPort::
3158 sendemail.smtpServerOption::
3159 sendemail.smtpUser::
3161 sendemail.transferEncoding::
3162 sendemail.validate::
3164 See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description.
3166 sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)::
3167 Deprecated alias for `sendemail.signedoffbycc`.
3169 sendemail.smtpBatchSize::
3170 Number of messages to be sent per connection, after that a relogin
3171 will happen. If the value is 0 or undefined, send all messages in
3173 See also the `--batch-size` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
3175 sendemail.smtpReloginDelay::
3176 Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server.
3177 See also the `--relogin-delay` option of linkgit:git-send-email[1].
3179 showbranch.default::
3180 The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
3181 See linkgit:git-show-branch[1].
3183 splitIndex.maxPercentChange::
3184 When the split index feature is used, this specifies the
3185 percent of entries the split index can contain compared to the
3186 total number of entries in both the split index and the shared
3187 index before a new shared index is written.
3188 The value should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0 then
3189 a new shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new
3190 shared index is never written.
3191 By default the value is 20, so a new shared index is written
3192 if the number of entries in the split index would be greater
3193 than 20 percent of the total number of entries.
3194 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
3196 splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire::
3197 When the split index feature is used, shared index files that
3198 were not modified since the time this variable specifies will
3199 be removed when a new shared index file is created. The value
3200 "now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses
3201 expiration altogether.
3202 The default value is "2.weeks.ago".
3203 Note that a shared index file is considered modified (for the
3204 purpose of expiration) each time a new split-index file is
3205 either created based on it or read from it.
3206 See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
3208 status.relativePaths::
3209 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the
3210 current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths
3211 relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git
3215 Set to true to enable --short by default in linkgit:git-status[1].
3216 The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable.
3219 Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1].
3220 The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable.
3222 status.displayCommentPrefix::
3223 If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will insert a comment
3224 prefix before each output line (starting with
3225 `core.commentChar`, i.e. `#` by default). This was the
3226 behavior of linkgit:git-status[1] in Git 1.8.4 and previous.
3229 status.renameLimit::
3230 The number of files to consider when performing rename detection
3231 in linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1]. Defaults to
3232 the value of diff.renameLimit.
3235 Whether and how Git detects renames in linkgit:git-status[1] and
3236 linkgit:git-commit[1] . If set to "false", rename detection is
3237 disabled. If set to "true", basic rename detection is enabled.
3238 If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will detect copies, as well.
3239 Defaults to the value of diff.renames.
3242 If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will display the number of
3243 entries currently stashed away.
3246 status.showUntrackedFiles::
3247 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show
3248 files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which
3249 contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name
3250 only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all
3251 the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some
3252 systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays
3253 the untracked files. Possible values are:
3256 * `no` - Show no untracked files.
3257 * `normal` - Show untracked files and directories.
3258 * `all` - Show also individual files in untracked directories.
3261 If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'.
3262 This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option
3263 of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1].
3265 status.submoduleSummary::
3267 If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an
3268 unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a
3269 summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see
3270 --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note
3271 that the summary output command will be suppressed for all
3272 submodules when `diff.ignoreSubmodules` is set to 'all' or only
3273 for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. The only
3274 exception to that rule is that status and commit will show staged
3275 submodule changes. To
3276 also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use
3277 the --ignore-submodules=dirty command-line option or the 'git
3278 submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does
3279 not honor these settings.
3282 If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an
3283 option will show the stash entry in patch form. Defaults to false.
3284 See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1].
3287 If this is set to true, the `git stash show` command without an
3288 option will show diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to true.
3289 See description of 'show' command in linkgit:git-stash[1].
3291 submodule.<name>.url::
3292 The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules
3293 file to the git config via 'git submodule init'. The user can change
3294 the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via 'git submodule
3295 update'. If neither submodule.<name>.active or submodule.active are
3296 set, the presence of this variable is used as a fallback to indicate
3297 whether the submodule is of interest to git commands.
3298 See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
3300 submodule.<name>.update::
3301 The method by which a submodule is updated by 'git submodule update',
3302 which is the only affected command, others such as
3303 'git checkout --recurse-submodules' are unaffected. It exists for
3304 historical reasons, when 'git submodule' was the only command to
3305 interact with submodules; settings like `submodule.active`
3306 and `pull.rebase` are more specific. It is populated by
3307 `git submodule init` from the linkgit:gitmodules[5] file.
3308 See description of 'update' command in linkgit:git-submodule[1].
3310 submodule.<name>.branch::
3311 The remote branch name for a submodule, used by `git submodule
3312 update --remote`. Set this option to override the value found in
3313 the `.gitmodules` file. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and
3314 linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
3316 submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
3317 This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this
3318 submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
3319 command-line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
3320 This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
3323 submodule.<name>.ignore::
3324 Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
3325 a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered
3326 modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and
3327 commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes
3328 to the submodules work tree and
3329 takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit
3330 recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally
3331 let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up.
3332 Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
3333 submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed.
3334 This setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule,
3335 both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
3336 "--ignore-submodules" option. The 'git submodule' commands are not
3337 affected by this setting.
3339 submodule.<name>.active::
3340 Boolean value indicating if the submodule is of interest to git
3341 commands. This config option takes precedence over the
3342 submodule.active config option.
3345 A repeated field which contains a pathspec used to match against a
3346 submodule's path to determine if the submodule is of interest to git
3350 Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This
3351 applies to all commands that have a `--recurse-submodules` option,
3355 submodule.fetchJobs::
3356 Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time.
3357 A positive integer allows up to that number of submodules fetched
3358 in parallel. A value of 0 will give some reasonable default.
3359 If unset, it defaults to 1.
3361 submodule.alternateLocation::
3362 Specifies how the submodules obtain alternates when submodules are
3363 cloned. Possible values are `no`, `superproject`.
3364 By default `no` is assumed, which doesn't add references. When the
3365 value is set to `superproject` the submodule to be cloned computes
3366 its alternates location relative to the superprojects alternate.
3368 submodule.alternateErrorStrategy::
3369 Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule
3370 as computed via `submodule.alternateLocation`. Possible values are
3371 `ignore`, `info`, `die`. Default is `die`.
3373 tag.forceSignAnnotated::
3374 A boolean to specify whether annotated tags created should be GPG signed.
3375 If `--annotate` is specified on the command line, it takes
3376 precedence over this option.
3379 This variable controls the sort ordering of tags when displayed by
3380 linkgit:git-tag[1]. Without the "--sort=<value>" option provided, the
3381 value of this variable will be used as the default.
3384 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
3385 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the
3386 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the
3387 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and
3388 linkgit:git-archive[1].
3390 transfer.fsckObjects::
3391 When `fetch.fsckObjects` or `receive.fsckObjects` are
3392 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
3396 String(s) `receive-pack` and `upload-pack` use to decide which
3397 refs to omit from their initial advertisements. Use more than
3398 one definition to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that is
3399 under the hierarchies listed in the value of this variable is
3400 excluded, and is hidden when responding to `git push` or `git
3401 fetch`. See `receive.hideRefs` and `uploadpack.hideRefs` for
3402 program-specific versions of this config.
3404 You may also include a `!` in front of the ref name to negate the entry,
3405 explicitly exposing it, even if an earlier entry marked it as hidden.
3406 If you have multiple hideRefs values, later entries override earlier ones
3407 (and entries in more-specific config files override less-specific ones).
3409 If a namespace is in use, the namespace prefix is stripped from each
3410 reference before it is matched against `transfer.hiderefs` patterns.
3411 For example, if `refs/heads/master` is specified in `transfer.hideRefs` and
3412 the current namespace is `foo`, then `refs/namespaces/foo/refs/heads/master`
3413 is omitted from the advertisements but `refs/heads/master` and
3414 `refs/namespaces/bar/refs/heads/master` are still advertised as so-called
3415 "have" lines. In order to match refs before stripping, add a `^` in front of
3416 the ref name. If you combine `!` and `^`, `!` must be specified first.
3418 Even if you hide refs, a client may still be able to steal the target
3419 objects via the techniques described in the "SECURITY" section of the
3420 linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's best to keep private data in a
3421 separate repository.
3423 transfer.unpackLimit::
3424 When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are
3425 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
3426 The default value is 100.
3428 uploadarchive.allowUnreachable::
3429 If true, allow clients to use `git archive --remote` to request
3430 any tree, whether reachable from the ref tips or not. See the
3431 discussion in the "SECURITY" section of
3432 linkgit:git-upload-archive[1] for more details. Defaults to
3435 uploadpack.hideRefs::
3436 This variable is the same as `transfer.hideRefs`, but applies
3437 only to `upload-pack` (and so affects only fetches, not pushes).
3438 An attempt to fetch a hidden ref by `git fetch` will fail. See
3439 also `uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant`.
3441 uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant::
3442 When `uploadpack.hideRefs` is in effect, allow `upload-pack`
3443 to accept a fetch request that asks for an object at the tip
3444 of a hidden ref (by default, such a request is rejected).
3445 See also `uploadpack.hideRefs`. Even if this is false, a client
3446 may be able to steal objects via the techniques described in the
3447 "SECURITY" section of the linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's
3448 best to keep private data in a separate repository.
3450 uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant::
3451 Allow `upload-pack` to accept a fetch request that asks for an
3452 object that is reachable from any ref tip. However, note that
3453 calculating object reachability is computationally expensive.
3454 Defaults to `false`. Even if this is false, a client may be able
3455 to steal objects via the techniques described in the "SECURITY"
3456 section of the linkgit:gitnamespaces[7] man page; it's best to
3457 keep private data in a separate repository.
3459 uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant::
3460 Allow `upload-pack` to accept a fetch request that asks for any
3462 Defaults to `false`.
3464 uploadpack.keepAlive::
3465 When `upload-pack` has started `pack-objects`, there may be a
3466 quiet period while `pack-objects` prepares the pack. Normally
3467 it would output progress information, but if `--quiet` was used
3468 for the fetch, `pack-objects` will output nothing at all until
3469 the pack data begins. Some clients and networks may consider
3470 the server to be hung and give up. Setting this option instructs
3471 `upload-pack` to send an empty keepalive packet every
3472 `uploadpack.keepAlive` seconds. Setting this option to 0
3473 disables keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5 seconds.
3475 uploadpack.packObjectsHook::
3476 If this option is set, when `upload-pack` would run
3477 `git pack-objects` to create a packfile for a client, it will
3478 run this shell command instead. The `pack-objects` command and
3479 arguments it _would_ have run (including the `git pack-objects`
3480 at the beginning) are appended to the shell command. The stdin
3481 and stdout of the hook are treated as if `pack-objects` itself
3482 was run. I.e., `upload-pack` will feed input intended for
3483 `pack-objects` to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on
3486 uploadpack.allowFilter::
3487 If this option is set, `upload-pack` will support partial
3488 clone and partial fetch object filtering.
3490 Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the
3491 repository-level config (this is a safety measure against fetching from
3492 untrusted repositories).
3494 url.<base>.insteadOf::
3495 Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
3496 start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a
3497 large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
3498 access methods, and some users need to use different access
3499 methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the
3500 equivalent URLs and have Git automatically rewrite the URL to
3501 the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
3502 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
3503 insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.
3505 Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the rewritten
3506 URL. If the rewrite changes the URL to use a custom protocol or remote
3507 helper, you may need to adjust the `protocol.*.allow` config to permit
3508 the request. In particular, protocols you expect to use for submodules
3509 must be set to `always` rather than the default of `user`. See the
3510 description of `protocol.allow` above.
3512 url.<base>.pushInsteadOf::
3513 Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to;
3514 instead, it will be rewritten to start with <base>, and the
3515 resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves
3516 a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
3517 access methods, some of which do not allow push, this feature
3518 allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have Git
3519 automatically use an appropriate URL to push, even for a
3520 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
3521 pushInsteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is
3522 used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will ignore this
3523 setting for that remote.
3526 Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.
3527 Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL`, `GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL`, and
3528 `EMAIL` environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
3531 Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits.
3532 Can be overridden by the `GIT_AUTHOR_NAME` and `GIT_COMMITTER_NAME`
3533 environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].
3535 user.useConfigOnly::
3536 Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for `user.email`
3537 and `user.name`, and instead retrieve the values only from the
3538 configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses
3539 and would like to use a different one for each repository, then
3540 with this configuration option set to `true` in the global config
3541 along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before
3542 making new commits in a newly cloned repository.
3543 Defaults to `false`.
3546 If linkgit:git-tag[1] or linkgit:git-commit[1] is not selecting the
3547 key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or
3548 commit, you can override the default selection with this variable.
3549 This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter,
3550 so you may specify a key using any method that gpg supports.
3552 versionsort.prereleaseSuffix (deprecated)::
3553 Deprecated alias for `versionsort.suffix`. Ignored if
3554 `versionsort.suffix` is set.
3556 versionsort.suffix::
3557 Even when version sort is used in linkgit:git-tag[1], tagnames
3558 with the same base version but different suffixes are still sorted
3559 lexicographically, resulting e.g. in prerelease tags appearing
3560 after the main release (e.g. "1.0-rc1" after "1.0"). This
3561 variable can be specified to determine the sorting order of tags
3562 with different suffixes.
3564 By specifying a single suffix in this variable, any tagname containing
3565 that suffix will appear before the corresponding main release. E.g. if
3566 the variable is set to "-rc", then all "1.0-rcX" tags will appear before
3567 "1.0". If specified multiple times, once per suffix, then the order of
3568 suffixes in the configuration will determine the sorting order of tagnames
3569 with those suffixes. E.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the
3570 configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be listed before any
3571 "1.0-rcX" tags. The placement of the main release tag relative to tags
3572 with various suffixes can be determined by specifying the empty suffix
3573 among those other suffixes. E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck" and
3574 "-bfs" appear in the configuration in this order, then all "v4.8-rcX" tags
3575 are listed first, followed by "v4.8", then "v4.8-ckX" and finally
3578 If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will
3579 be sorted according to the suffix which starts at the earliest position in
3580 the tagname. If more than one different matching suffixes start at
3581 that earliest position, then that tagname will be sorted according to the
3582 longest of those suffixes.
3583 The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined if they are
3584 in multiple config files.
3587 Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands.
3588 Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1]
3591 worktree.guessRemote::
3592 With `add`, if no branch argument, and neither of `-b` nor
3593 `-B` nor `--detach` are given, the command defaults to
3594 creating a new branch from HEAD. If `worktree.guessRemote` is
3595 set to true, `worktree add` tries to find a remote-tracking
3596 branch whose name uniquely matches the new branch name. If
3597 such a branch exists, it is checked out and set as "upstream"
3598 for the new branch. If no such match can be found, it falls
3599 back to creating a new branch from the current HEAD.