| CONFIGURATION FILE |
| ------------------ |
| |
| The Git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect |
| the Git commands' behavior. The `.git/config` file in each repository |
| is used to store the configuration for that repository, and |
| `$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as |
| fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` |
| can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. |
| |
| The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing |
| and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein |
| the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last |
| dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last |
| dot. The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric |
| characters and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character. Some |
| variables may appear multiple times. |
| |
| Syntax |
| ~~~~~~ |
| |
| The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly |
| ignored. The '#' and ';' characters begin comments to the end of line, |
| blank lines are ignored. |
| |
| The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with |
| the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next |
| section begins. Section names are not case sensitive. Only alphanumeric |
| characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. Each variable |
| must belong to some section, which means that there must be a section |
| header before the first setting of a variable. |
| |
| Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a subsection |
| put its name in double quotes, separated by space from the section name, |
| in the section header, like in the example below: |
| |
| -------- |
| [section "subsection"] |
| |
| -------- |
| |
| Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except |
| newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`, |
| respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple |
| lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. |
| You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you |
| don't need to. |
| |
| There is also a deprecated `[section.subsection]` syntax. With this |
| syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also |
| compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same |
| restrictions as section names. |
| |
| All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section |
| header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form |
| 'name = value'. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line |
| is taken as 'name' and the variable is recognized as boolean "true". |
| The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters |
| and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character. There can be more |
| than one value for a given variable; we say then that the variable is |
| multivalued. |
| |
| Leading and trailing whitespace in a variable value is discarded. |
| Internal whitespace within a variable value is retained verbatim. |
| |
| The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either |
| a string, an integer, or a boolean. Boolean values may be given as yes/no, |
| 1/0, true/false or on/off. Case is not significant in boolean values, when |
| converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type specifier; |
| 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false". |
| |
| String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes. |
| You need to enclose variable values in double quotes if you want to |
| preserve leading or trailing whitespace, or if the variable value contains |
| comment characters (i.e. it contains '#' or ';'). |
| Double quote `"` and backslash `\` characters in variable values must |
| be escaped: use `\"` for `"` and `\\` for `\`. |
| |
| The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized: |
| `\n` for newline character (NL), `\t` for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB) |
| and `\b` for backspace (BS). No other char escape sequence, nor octal |
| char sequences are valid. |
| |
| Variable values ending in a `\` are continued on the next line in the |
| customary UNIX fashion. |
| |
| Some variables may require a special value format. |
| |
| Includes |
| ~~~~~~~~ |
| |
| You can include one config file from another by setting the special |
| `include.path` variable to the name of the file to be included. The |
| included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been |
| found at the location of the include directive. If the value of the |
| `include.path` variable is a relative path, the path is considered to be |
| relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was |
| found. The value of `include.path` is subject to tilde expansion: `~/` |
| is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified |
| user's home directory. See below for examples. |
| |
| Example |
| ~~~~~~~ |
| |
| # Core variables |
| [core] |
| ; Don't trust file modes |
| filemode = false |
| |
| # Our diff algorithm |
| [diff] |
| external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper |
| renames = true |
| |
| [branch "devel"] |
| remote = origin |
| merge = refs/heads/devel |
| |
| # Proxy settings |
| [core] |
| gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org" |
| gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest |
| |
| [include] |
| path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path |
| path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file |
| path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your $HOME directory |
| |
| Variables |
| ~~~~~~~~~ |
| |
| Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete. |
| For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description |
| in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core |
| porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation. |
| |
| advice.*:: |
| These variables control various optional help messages designed to |
| aid new users. All 'advice.*' variables default to 'true', and you |
| can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to 'false': |
| + |
| -- |
| pushUpdateRejected:: |
| Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable |
| 'pushNonFFCurrent', 'pushNonFFDefault', |
| 'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists', |
| 'pushFetchFirst', and 'pushNeedsForce' |
| simultaneously. |
| pushNonFFCurrent:: |
| Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] fails due to a |
| non-fast-forward update to the current branch. |
| pushNonFFDefault:: |
| Advice to set 'push.default' to 'upstream' or 'current' |
| when you ran linkgit:git-push[1] and pushed 'matching |
| refs' by default (i.e. you did not provide an explicit |
| refspec, and no 'push.default' configuration was set) |
| and it resulted in a non-fast-forward error. |
| pushNonFFMatching:: |
| Advice shown when you ran linkgit:git-push[1] and pushed |
| 'matching refs' explicitly (i.e. you used ':', or |
| specified a refspec that isn't your current branch) and |
| it resulted in a non-fast-forward error. |
| pushAlreadyExists:: |
| Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that |
| does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.) |
| pushFetchFirst:: |
| Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that |
| tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an |
| object we do not have. |
| pushNeedsForce:: |
| Shown when linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that |
| tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an |
| object that is not a committish, or make the remote |
| ref point at an object that is not a committish. |
| statusHints:: |
| Show directions on how to proceed from the current |
| state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in |
| the template shown when writing commit messages in |
| linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown |
| by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch. |
| commitBeforeMerge:: |
| Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to |
| merge to avoid overwriting local changes. |
| resolveConflict:: |
| Advice shown by various commands when conflicts |
| prevent the operation from being performed. |
| implicitIdentity:: |
| Advice on how to set your identity configuration when |
| your information is guessed from the system username and |
| domain name. |
| detachedHead:: |
| Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to |
| move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create |
| a local branch after the fact. |
| amWorkDir:: |
| Advice that shows the location of the patch file when |
| linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it. |
| -- |
| |
| core.fileMode:: |
| If false, the executable bit differences between the index and |
| the working tree are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. |
| See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. |
| + |
| The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] |
| will probe and set core.fileMode false if appropriate when the |
| repository is created. |
| |
| core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks:: |
| This option is only used by Cygwin implementation of Git. If false, |
| the Cygwin stat() and lstat() functions are used. This may be useful |
| if your repository consists of a few separate directories joined in |
| one hierarchy using Cygwin mount. If true, Git uses native Win32 API |
| whenever it is possible and falls back to Cygwin functions only to |
| handle symbol links. The native mode is more than twice faster than |
| normal Cygwin l/stat() functions. True by default, unless core.filemode |
| is true, in which case ignoreCygwinFSTricks is ignored as Cygwin's |
| POSIX emulation is required to support core.filemode. |
| |
| core.ignorecase:: |
| If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable |
| Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive, |
| like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds |
| "makefile" when Git expects "Makefile", Git will assume |
| it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as |
| "Makefile". |
| + |
| The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] |
| will probe and set core.ignorecase true if appropriate when the repository |
| is created. |
| |
| core.precomposeunicode:: |
| This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git. |
| When core.precomposeunicode=true, Git reverts the unicode decomposition |
| of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository |
| between Mac OS and Linux or Windows. |
| (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7). |
| When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, |
| which is backward compatible with older versions of Git. |
| |
| core.trustctime:: |
| If false, the ctime differences between the index and the |
| working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time |
| is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system |
| crawlers and some backup systems). |
| See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. |
| |
| core.checkstat:: |
| Determines which stat fields to match between the index |
| and work tree. The user can set this to 'default' or |
| 'minimal'. Default (or explicitly 'default'), is to check |
| all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime. |
| |
| core.quotepath:: |
| The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', |
| 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote |
| "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the |
| pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the |
| same way strings in C source code are quoted. If this |
| variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are |
| not quoted but output as verbatim. Note that double |
| quote, backslash and control characters are always |
| quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this |
| variable. |
| |
| core.eol:: |
| Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for |
| files that have the `text` property set. Alternatives are |
| 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's native |
| line ending. The default value is `native`. See |
| linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line |
| conversion. |
| |
| core.safecrlf:: |
| If true, makes Git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when |
| end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a command |
| modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly. |
| For example, committing a file followed by checking out the |
| same file should yield the original file in the work tree. If |
| this is not the case for the current setting of |
| `core.autocrlf`, Git will reject the file. The variable can |
| be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an |
| irreversible conversion but continue the operation. |
| + |
| CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. |
| When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to |
| CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and |
| CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by Git. For text |
| files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings |
| such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. |
| But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the |
| conversion can corrupt data. |
| + |
| If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by |
| setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right |
| after committing you still have the original file in your work |
| tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell |
| Git that this file is binary and Git will handle the file |
| appropriately. |
| + |
| Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with |
| mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary |
| files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed |
| in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing |
| to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files |
| converting CRLFs corrupts data. |
| + |
| Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a |
| file identical to the original file for a different setting of |
| `core.eol` and `core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For |
| example, a text file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.eol=lf` |
| and could later be checked out with `core.eol=crlf`, in which case the |
| resulting file would contain `CRLF`, although the original file |
| contained `LF`. However, in both work trees the line endings would be |
| consistent, that is either all `LF` or all `CRLF`, but never mixed. A |
| file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf` |
| mechanism. |
| |
| core.autocrlf:: |
| Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting |
| the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files except that text |
| files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain |
| `CRLF` in the repository will not be touched. Use this |
| setting if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your |
| working directory even though the repository does not have |
| normalized line endings. This variable can be set to 'input', |
| in which case no output conversion is performed. |
| |
| core.symlinks:: |
| If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that |
| contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and |
| linkgit:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular |
| file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support |
| symbolic links. |
| + |
| The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] |
| will probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the repository |
| is created. |
| |
| core.gitProxy:: |
| A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead |
| of establishing direct connection to the remote server when |
| using the Git protocol for fetching. If the variable value is |
| in the "COMMAND for DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only |
| on hostnames ending with the specified domain string. This variable |
| may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order; |
| the first match wins. |
| + |
| Can be overridden by the 'GIT_PROXY_COMMAND' environment variable |
| (which always applies universally, without the special "for" |
| handling). |
| + |
| The special string `none` can be used as the proxy command to |
| specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern. |
| This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from |
| proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains. |
| |
| core.ignoreStat:: |
| If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index |
| will mark the updated paths with the "assume unchanged" bit in the |
| index. These marked files are then assumed to stay unchanged in the |
| working tree, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not |
| detect the file changes by lstat() calls. This is useful on systems |
| where those are very slow, such as Microsoft Windows. |
| See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. |
| False by default. |
| |
| core.preferSymlinkRefs:: |
| Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD |
| and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links. |
| This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that |
| expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. |
| |
| core.bare:: |
| If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no |
| working directory associated with it. If this is the case a |
| number of commands that require a working directory will be |
| disabled, such as linkgit:git-add[1] or linkgit:git-merge[1]. |
| + |
| This setting is automatically guessed by linkgit:git-clone[1] or |
| linkgit:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a |
| repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare = |
| false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare |
| = true). |
| |
| core.worktree:: |
| Set the path to the root of the working tree. |
| This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment |
| variable and the '--work-tree' command line option. |
| The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to |
| the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir |
| or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered. |
| If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is specified but none of |
| --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified, |
| the current working directory is regarded as the top level |
| of your working tree. |
| + |
| Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration |
| file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory and its value differs |
| from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has |
| core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a |
| misconfiguration. Running Git commands in the "/path/to" directory will |
| still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause |
| confusion unless you know what you are doing (e.g. you are creating a |
| read-only snapshot of the same index to a location different from the |
| repository's usual working tree). |
| |
| core.logAllRefUpdates:: |
| Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file |
| "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old |
| SHA1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but |
| only when the file exists. If this configuration |
| variable is set to true, missing "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" |
| file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under |
| refs/heads/), remote refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/), |
| note refs (i.e. under refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD. |
| + |
| This information can be used to determine what commit |
| was the tip of a branch "2 days ago". |
| + |
| This value is true by default in a repository that has |
| a working directory associated with it, and false by |
| default in a bare repository. |
| |
| core.repositoryFormatVersion:: |
| Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout |
| version. |
| |
| core.sharedRepository:: |
| When 'group' (or 'true'), the repository is made shareable between |
| several users in a group (making sure all the files and objects are |
| group-writable). When 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'), the |
| repository will be readable by all users, additionally to being |
| group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), Git will use permissions |
| reported by umask(2). When '0xxx', where '0xxx' is an octal number, |
| files in the repository will have this mode value. '0xxx' will override |
| user's umask value (whereas the other options will only override |
| requested parts of the user's umask value). Examples: '0660' will make |
| the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to |
| others (equivalent to 'group' unless umask is e.g. '0022'). '0640' is a |
| repository that is group-readable but not group-writable. |
| See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default. |
| |
| core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: |
| If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous |
| and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default. |
| |
| core.compression:: |
| An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. |
| -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, |
| and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. |
| If set, this provides a default to other compression variables, |
| such as 'core.loosecompression' and 'pack.compression'. |
| |
| core.loosecompression:: |
| An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that |
| are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no |
| compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being |
| slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is |
| not set, defaults to 1 (best speed). |
| |
| core.packedGitWindowSize:: |
| Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a |
| single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow |
| your system to process a smaller number of large pack files |
| more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect |
| performance due to increased calls to the operating system's |
| memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing |
| a large number of large pack files. |
| + |
| Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32 |
| MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should |
| be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do |
| not need to adjust this value. |
| + |
| Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. |
| |
| core.packedGitLimit:: |
| Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory |
| from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many |
| bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing |
| regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process. |
| + |
| Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms. |
| This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on |
| the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. |
| + |
| Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. |
| |
| core.deltaBaseCacheLimit:: |
| Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects |
| that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the |
| entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able |
| to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base |
| objects multiple times. |
| + |
| Default is 16 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable |
| for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. |
| You probably do not need to adjust this value. |
| + |
| Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. |
| |
| core.bigFileThreshold:: |
| Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without |
| attempting delta compression. Storing large files without |
| delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the |
| slight expense of increased disk usage. |
| + |
| Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable |
| for most projects as source code and other text files can still |
| be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be. |
| + |
| Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. |
| |
| core.excludesfile:: |
| In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and |
| '.git/info/exclude', Git looks into this file for patterns |
| of files which are not meant to be tracked. "`~/`" is expanded |
| to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the specified user's |
| home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. |
| If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore |
| is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5]. |
| |
| core.askpass:: |
| Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively |
| ask for a password can be told to use an external program given |
| via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_ASKPASS' |
| environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the |
| 'SSH_ASKPASS' environment variable or, failing that, a simple password |
| prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as |
| command line argument and write the password on its STDOUT. |
| |
| core.attributesfile:: |
| In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and |
| '.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes |
| (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same |
| way as for `core.excludesfile`. Its default value is |
| $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not |
| set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead. |
| |
| core.editor:: |
| Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit |
| messages by launching an editor uses the value of this |
| variable when it is set, and the environment variable |
| `GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1]. |
| |
| core.commentchar:: |
| Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit |
| messages consider a line that begins with this character |
| commented, and removes them after the editor returns |
| (default '#'). |
| |
| sequence.editor:: |
| Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase insn file. |
| The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used. |
| It can be overridden by the `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` environment variable. |
| When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead. |
| |
| core.pager:: |
| The command that Git will use to paginate output. Can |
| be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment |
| variable. Note that Git sets the `LESS` environment |
| variable to `FRSX` if it is unset when it runs the |
| pager. One can change these settings by setting the |
| `LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately, |
| these settings can be overridden on a project or |
| global basis by setting the `core.pager` option. |
| Setting `core.pager` has no effect on the `LESS` |
| environment variable behaviour above, so if you want |
| to override Git's default settings this way, you need |
| to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option |
| in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager` |
| to `less -+S`. This will be passed to the shell by |
| Git, which will translate the final command to |
| `LESS=FRSX less -+S`. |
| |
| core.whitespace:: |
| A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to |
| notice. 'git diff' will use `color.diff.whitespace` to |
| highlight them, and 'git apply --whitespace=error' will |
| consider them as errors. You can prefix `-` to disable |
| any of them (e.g. `-trailing-space`): |
| + |
| * `blank-at-eol` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line |
| as an error (enabled by default). |
| * `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately |
| before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an |
| error (enabled by default). |
| * `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with space |
| characters instead of the equivalent tabs as an error (not enabled by |
| default). |
| * `tab-in-indent` treats a tab character in the initial indent part of |
| the line as an error (not enabled by default). |
| * `blank-at-eof` treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error |
| (enabled by default). |
| * `trailing-space` is a short-hand to cover both `blank-at-eol` and |
| `blank-at-eof`. |
| * `cr-at-eol` treats a carriage-return at the end of line as |
| part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space` |
| does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return |
| is not a whitespace (not enabled by default). |
| * `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this |
| is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when Git fixes `tab-in-indent` |
| errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63. |
| |
| core.fsyncobjectfiles:: |
| This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files. |
| + |
| This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders |
| data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use |
| journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata |
| and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback"). |
| |
| core.preloadindex:: |
| Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff' |
| + |
| This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially |
| on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus |
| relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', Git will do the |
| index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing |
| overlapping IO's. |
| |
| core.createObject:: |
| You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by |
| a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation |
| will not overwrite existing objects. |
| + |
| On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable. |
| Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the |
| check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten. |
| |
| core.notesRef:: |
| When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in |
| the given ref. The ref must be fully qualified. If the given |
| ref does not exist, it is not an error but means that no |
| notes should be printed. |
| + |
| This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by |
| the 'GIT_NOTES_REF' environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1]. |
| |
| core.sparseCheckout:: |
| Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in |
| linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information. |
| |
| core.abbrev:: |
| Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If unspecified, |
| many commands abbreviate to 7 hexdigits, which may not be enough |
| for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long |
| time. |
| |
| add.ignore-errors:: |
| add.ignoreErrors:: |
| Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be |
| added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the '--ignore-errors' |
| option of linkgit:git-add[1]. Older versions of Git accept only |
| `add.ignore-errors`, which does not follow the usual naming |
| convention for configuration variables. Newer versions of Git |
| honor `add.ignoreErrors` as well. |
| |
| alias.*:: |
| Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. |
| after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation |
| "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid |
| confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that |
| hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by |
| spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. |
| quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them. |
| + |
| If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, |
| it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining |
| "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation |
| "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command |
| "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be |
| executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may |
| not necessarily be the current directory. |
| 'GIT_PREFIX' is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix' |
| from the original current directory. See linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]. |
| |
| am.keepcr:: |
| If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format |
| with parameter '--keep-cr'. In this case git-mailsplit will |
| not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overridden |
| by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line. |
| See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1]. |
| |
| apply.ignorewhitespace:: |
| When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in |
| whitespace, in the same way as the '--ignore-space-change' |
| option. |
| When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells 'git apply' to |
| respect all whitespace differences. |
| See linkgit:git-apply[1]. |
| |
| apply.whitespace:: |
| Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way |
| as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. |
| |
| branch.autosetupmerge:: |
| Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches |
| so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the |
| starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, |
| this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` |
| and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no |
| automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the |
| starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` -- |
| automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a |
| local branch or remote-tracking |
| branch. This option defaults to true. |
| |
| branch.autosetuprebase:: |
| When a new branch is created with 'git branch' or 'git checkout' |
| that tracks another branch, this variable tells Git to set |
| up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase"). |
| When `never`, rebase is never automatically set to true. |
| When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of |
| other local branches. |
| When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of |
| remote-tracking branches. |
| When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking |
| branches. |
| See "branch.autosetupmerge" for details on how to set up a |
| branch to track another branch. |
| This option defaults to never. |
| |
| branch.<name>.remote:: |
| When in branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' and 'git push' which |
| remote to fetch from/push to. It defaults to `origin` if no remote is |
| configured. `origin` is also used if you are not on any branch. |
| |
| branch.<name>.merge:: |
| Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch |
| for the given branch. It tells 'git fetch'/'git pull'/'git rebase' which |
| branch to merge and can also affect 'git push' (see push.default). |
| When in branch <name>, it tells 'git fetch' the default |
| refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is |
| handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a |
| ref which is fetched from the remote given by |
| "branch.<name>.remote". |
| The merge information is used by 'git pull' (which at first calls |
| 'git fetch') to lookup the default branch for merging. Without |
| this option, 'git pull' defaults to merge the first refspec fetched. |
| Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge. |
| If you wish to setup 'git pull' so that it merges into <name> from |
| another branch in the local repository, you can point |
| branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the special setting |
| `.` (a period) for branch.<name>.remote. |
| |
| branch.<name>.mergeoptions:: |
| Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and |
| supported options are the same as those of linkgit:git-merge[1], but |
| option values containing whitespace characters are currently not |
| supported. |
| |
| branch.<name>.rebase:: |
| When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched branch, |
| instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when |
| "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non |
| branch-specific manner. |
| + |
| *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use |
| it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] |
| for details). |
| |
| branch.<name>.description:: |
| Branch description, can be edited with |
| `git branch --edit-description`. Branch description is |
| automatically added in the format-patch cover letter or |
| request-pull summary. |
| |
| browser.<tool>.cmd:: |
| Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The |
| specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed |
| as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].) |
| |
| browser.<tool>.path:: |
| Override the path for the given tool that may be used to |
| browse HTML help (see '-w' option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a |
| working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]). |
| |
| clean.requireForce:: |
| A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f |
| or -n. Defaults to true. |
| |
| color.branch:: |
| A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of |
| linkgit:git-branch[1]. May be set to `always`, |
| `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used |
| only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false. |
| |
| color.branch.<slot>:: |
| Use customized color for branch coloration. `<slot>` is one of |
| `current` (the current branch), `local` (a local branch), |
| `remote` (a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/), `plain` (other |
| refs). |
| + |
| The value for these configuration variables is a list of colors (at most |
| two) and attributes (at most one), separated by spaces. The colors |
| accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, |
| `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`; the attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, |
| `blink` and `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the |
| second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any, |
| doesn't matter. |
| |
| color.diff:: |
| Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches. |
| If this is set to `always`, linkgit:git-diff[1], |
| linkgit:git-log[1], and linkgit:git-show[1] will use color |
| for all patches. If it is set to `true` or `auto`, those |
| commands will only use color when output is to the terminal. |
| Defaults to false. |
| + |
| This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] nor the |
| 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the |
| command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option. |
| |
| color.diff.<slot>:: |
| Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies |
| which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one |
| of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag` |
| (hunk header), 'func' (function in hunk header), `old` (removed lines), |
| `new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` |
| (highlighting whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be |
| specified as in color.branch.<slot>. |
| |
| color.decorate.<slot>:: |
| Use customized color for 'git log --decorate' output. `<slot>` is one |
| of `branch`, `remoteBranch`, `tag`, `stash` or `HEAD` for local |
| branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively. |
| |
| color.grep:: |
| When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or |
| `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use color only |
| when the output is written to the terminal. Defaults to `false`. |
| |
| color.grep.<slot>:: |
| Use customized color for grep colorization. `<slot>` specifies which |
| part of the line to use the specified color, and is one of |
| + |
| -- |
| `context`;; |
| non-matching text in context lines (when using `-A`, `-B`, or `-C`) |
| `filename`;; |
| filename prefix (when not using `-h`) |
| `function`;; |
| function name lines (when using `-p`) |
| `linenumber`;; |
| line number prefix (when using `-n`) |
| `match`;; |
| matching text |
| `selected`;; |
| non-matching text in selected lines |
| `separator`;; |
| separators between fields on a line (`:`, `-`, and `=`) |
| and between hunks (`--`) |
| -- |
| + |
| The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. |
| |
| color.interactive:: |
| When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts |
| and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive"). |
| When false (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use |
| colors only when the output is to the terminal. Defaults to false. |
| |
| color.interactive.<slot>:: |
| Use customized color for 'git add --interactive' |
| output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for |
| four distinct types of normal output from interactive |
| commands. The values of these variables may be specified as |
| in color.branch.<slot>. |
| |
| color.pager:: |
| A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in |
| use (default is true). |
| |
| color.showbranch:: |
| A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of |
| linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`, |
| `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used |
| only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false. |
| |
| color.status:: |
| A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of |
| linkgit:git-status[1]. May be set to `always`, |
| `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used |
| only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false. |
| |
| color.status.<slot>:: |
| Use customized color for status colorization. `<slot>` is |
| one of `header` (the header text of the status message), |
| `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed), |
| `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index), |
| `untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git), |
| `branch` (the current branch), or |
| `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting |
| to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in |
| color.branch.<slot>. |
| |
| color.ui:: |
| This variable determines the default value for variables such |
| as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color |
| per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn |
| configuration to set a default for the `--color` option. Set it |
| to `always` if you want all output not intended for machine |
| consumption to use color, to `true` or `auto` if you want such |
| output to use color when written to the terminal, or to `false` or |
| `never` if you prefer Git commands not to use color unless enabled |
| explicitly with some other configuration or the `--color` option. |
| |
| column.ui:: |
| Specify whether supported commands should output in columns. |
| This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces |
| or commas: |
| + |
| -- |
| `always`;; |
| always show in columns |
| `never`;; |
| never show in columns |
| `auto`;; |
| show in columns if the output is to the terminal |
| `column`;; |
| fill columns before rows (default) |
| `row`;; |
| fill rows before columns |
| `plain`;; |
| show in one column |
| `dense`;; |
| make unequal size columns to utilize more space |
| `nodense`;; |
| make equal size columns |
| -- |
| + |
| This option defaults to 'never'. |
| |
| column.branch:: |
| Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns. |
| See `column.ui` for details. |
| |
| column.status:: |
| Specify whether to output untracked files in `git status` in columns. |
| See `column.ui` for details. |
| |
| column.tag:: |
| Specify whether to output tag listing in `git tag` in columns. |
| See `column.ui` for details. |
| |
| commit.cleanup:: |
| This setting overrides the default of the `--cleanup` option in |
| `git commit`. See linkgit:git-commit[1] for details. Changing the |
| default can be useful when you always want to keep lines that begin |
| with comment character `#` in your log message, in which case you |
| would do `git config commit.cleanup whitespace` (note that you will |
| have to remove the help lines that begin with `#` in the commit log |
| template yourself, if you do this). |
| |
| commit.status:: |
| A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the |
| commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit |
| message. Defaults to true. |
| |
| commit.template:: |
| Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. |
| "`~/`" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "`~user/`" to the |
| specified user's home directory. |
| |
| credential.helper:: |
| Specify an external helper to be called when a username or |
| password credential is needed; the helper may consult external |
| storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. See |
| linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details. |
| |
| credential.useHttpPath:: |
| When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http |
| or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See |
| linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information. |
| |
| credential.username:: |
| If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username |
| by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and |
| linkgit:gitcredentials[7]. |
| |
| credential.<url>.*:: |
| Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to |
| some credentials. For example "credential.https://example.com.username" |
| would set the default username only for https connections to |
| example.com. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are |
| matched. |
| |
| include::diff-config.txt[] |
| |
| difftool.<tool>.path:: |
| Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case |
| your tool is not in the PATH. |
| |
| difftool.<tool>.cmd:: |
| Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool. |
| The specified command is evaluated in shell with the following |
| variables available: 'LOCAL' is set to the name of the temporary |
| file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and 'REMOTE' |
| is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents |
| of the diff post-image. |
| |
| difftool.prompt:: |
| Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool. |
| |
| fetch.recurseSubmodules:: |
| This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'. |
| Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to |
| unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not |
| recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default |
| value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule |
| when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's |
| reference. |
| |
| fetch.fsckObjects:: |
| If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched |
| objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a |
| broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. |
| Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects` |
| is used instead. |
| |
| fetch.unpackLimit:: |
| If the number of objects fetched over the Git native |
| transfer is below this |
| limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object |
| files. However if the number of received objects equals or |
| exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as |
| a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the |
| pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, |
| especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of |
| `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. |
| |
| format.attach:: |
| Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for |
| 'format-patch'. The value can also be a double quoted string |
| which will enable attachments as the default and set the |
| value as the boundary. See the --attach option in |
| linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. |
| |
| format.numbered:: |
| A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch |
| subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there |
| is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all |
| messages by setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered |
| option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. |
| |
| format.headers:: |
| Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted |
| by mail. See linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. |
| |
| format.to:: |
| format.cc:: |
| Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted |
| by mail. See the --to and --cc options in |
| linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. |
| |
| format.subjectprefix:: |
| The default for format-patch is to output files with the '[PATCH]' |
| subject prefix. Use this variable to change that prefix. |
| |
| format.signature:: |
| The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing |
| the Git version number. Use this variable to change that default. |
| Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress |
| signature generation. |
| |
| format.suffix:: |
| The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix |
| `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to |
| include the dot if you want it). |
| |
| format.pretty:: |
| The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, |
| See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], |
| linkgit:git-whatchanged[1]. |
| |
| format.thread:: |
| The default threading style for 'git format-patch'. Can be |
| a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading |
| makes every mail a reply to the head of the series, |
| where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the |
| `--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order. |
| `deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one. |
| A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false |
| value disables threading. |
| |
| format.signoff:: |
| A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of |
| format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a |
| patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have |
| the rights to submit this work under the same open source license. |
| Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion. |
| |
| filter.<driver>.clean:: |
| The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree |
| file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for |
| details. |
| |
| filter.<driver>.smudge:: |
| The command which is used to convert the content of a blob |
| object to a worktree file upon checkout. See |
| linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. |
| |
| gc.aggressiveWindow:: |
| The window size parameter used in the delta compression |
| algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults |
| to 250. |
| |
| gc.auto:: |
| When there are approximately more than this many loose |
| objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them. |
| Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a |
| light-weight garbage collection from time to time. The |
| default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables it. |
| |
| gc.autopacklimit:: |
| When there are more than this many packs that are not |
| marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc |
| --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The |
| default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it. |
| |
| gc.packrefs:: |
| Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it |
| unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb |
| transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether |
| 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `notbare` |
| to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a |
| boolean value. The default is `true`. |
| |
| gc.pruneexpire:: |
| When 'git gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'. |
| Override the grace period with this config variable. The value |
| "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune |
| unreachable objects immediately. |
| |
| gc.reflogexpire:: |
| gc.<pattern>.reflogexpire:: |
| 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than |
| this time; defaults to 90 days. With "<pattern>" (e.g. |
| "refs/stash") in the middle the setting applies only to |
| the refs that match the <pattern>. |
| |
| gc.reflogexpireunreachable:: |
| gc.<ref>.reflogexpireunreachable:: |
| 'git reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than |
| this time and are not reachable from the current tip; |
| defaults to 30 days. With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash") |
| in the middle, the setting applies only to the refs that |
| match the <pattern>. |
| |
| gc.rerereresolved:: |
| Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are |
| kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run. |
| The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. |
| |
| gc.rerereunresolved:: |
| Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are |
| kept for this many days when 'git rerere gc' is run. |
| The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. |
| |
| gitcvs.commitmsgannotation:: |
| Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string |
| to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator". |
| |
| gitcvs.enabled:: |
| Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository. |
| See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. |
| |
| gitcvs.logfile:: |
| Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs |
| various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. |
| |
| gitcvs.usecrlfattr:: |
| If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion |
| attributes for files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If |
| the attributes force Git to treat a file as text, |
| the '-k' mode will be left blank so CVS clients will |
| treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file |
| will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging |
| the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow |
| the file type to be determined, then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is |
| used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. |
| |
| gitcvs.allbinary:: |
| This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve |
| the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all |
| unresolved files are sent to the client in |
| mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them |
| as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it |
| otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess", |
| then the contents of the file are examined to decide if |
| it is binary, similar to 'core.autocrlf'. |
| |
| gitcvs.dbname:: |
| Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information |
| derived from the Git repository. The exact meaning depends on the |
| used database driver, for SQLite (which is the default driver) this |
| is a filename. Supports variable substitution (see |
| linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). May not contain semicolons (`;`). |
| Default: '%Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite' |
| |
| gitcvs.dbdriver:: |
| Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver |
| for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested |
| with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with 'DBD::Pg', and |
| reported *not* to work with 'DBD::mysql'. Experimental feature. |
| May not contain double colons (`:`). Default: 'SQLite'. |
| See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. |
| |
| gitcvs.dbuser, gitcvs.dbpass:: |
| Database user and password. Only useful if setting 'gitcvs.dbdriver', |
| since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords. |
| 'gitcvs.dbuser' supports variable substitution (see |
| linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). |
| |
| gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix:: |
| Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any |
| database tables used, allowing a single database to be used |
| for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see |
| linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic |
| characters will be replaced with underscores. |
| |
| All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and |
| 'gitcvs.allbinary' can also be specified as |
| 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method' |
| is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given |
| access method. |
| |
| gitweb.category:: |
| gitweb.description:: |
| gitweb.owner:: |
| gitweb.url:: |
| See linkgit:gitweb[1] for description. |
| |
| gitweb.avatar:: |
| gitweb.blame:: |
| gitweb.grep:: |
| gitweb.highlight:: |
| gitweb.patches:: |
| gitweb.pickaxe:: |
| gitweb.remote_heads:: |
| gitweb.showsizes:: |
| gitweb.snapshot:: |
| See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for description. |
| |
| grep.lineNumber:: |
| If set to true, enable '-n' option by default. |
| |
| grep.patternType:: |
| Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of 'basic', 'extended', |
| 'fixed', or 'perl' will enable the '--basic-regexp', '--extended-regexp', |
| '--fixed-strings', or '--perl-regexp' option accordingly, while the |
| value 'default' will return to the default matching behavior. |
| |
| grep.extendedRegexp:: |
| If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by default. This |
| option is ignored when the 'grep.patternType' option is set to a value |
| other than 'default'. |
| |
| gpg.program:: |
| Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when |
| making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support the |
| same command line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached |
| signature, "gpg --verify $file - <$signature" is run, and the |
| program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting with |
| code 0, and to generate an ascii-armored detached signature, the |
| standard input of "gpg -bsau $key" is fed with the contents to be |
| signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its |
| standard output. |
| |
| gui.commitmsgwidth:: |
| Defines how wide the commit message window is in the |
| linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default. |
| |
| gui.diffcontext:: |
| Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff |
| made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5". |
| |
| gui.encoding:: |
| Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of |
| file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1]. |
| It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute |
| for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). |
| If this option is not set, the tools default to the |
| locale encoding. |
| |
| gui.matchtrackingbranch:: |
| Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should |
| default to tracking remote branches with matching names or |
| not. Default: "false". |
| |
| gui.newbranchtemplate:: |
| Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the |
| linkgit:git-gui[1]. |
| |
| gui.pruneduringfetch:: |
| "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when |
| performing a fetch. The default value is "false". |
| |
| gui.trustmtime:: |
| Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] should trust the file modification |
| timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted. |
| |
| gui.spellingdictionary:: |
| Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in |
| the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned |
| off. |
| |
| gui.fastcopyblame:: |
| If true, 'git gui blame' uses `-C` instead of `-C -C` for original |
| location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge |
| repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection. |
| |
| gui.copyblamethreshold:: |
| Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location |
| detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the |
| linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection. |
| |
| gui.blamehistoryctx:: |
| Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in |
| linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History |
| Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this |
| variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.cmd:: |
| Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item |
| of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is |
| mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of |
| the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of |
| the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as |
| 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if |
| the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty). |
| |
| guitool.<name>.needsfile:: |
| Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees |
| that 'FILENAME' is not empty. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.noconsole:: |
| Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its |
| output. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.norescan:: |
| Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool |
| finishes execution. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.confirm:: |
| Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.argprompt:: |
| Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool |
| through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an |
| argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect |
| if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1', |
| the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact |
| value of the variable is used. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.revprompt:: |
| Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the |
| 'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option |
| is similar to 'argprompt', and can be used together with it. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.revunmerged:: |
| Show only unmerged branches in the 'revprompt' subdialog. |
| This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not |
| for things like checkout or reset. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.title:: |
| Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default |
| is the tool name. |
| |
| guitool.<name>.prompt:: |
| Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of |
| the dialog, before subsections for 'argprompt' and 'revprompt'. |
| The default value includes the actual command. |
| |
| help.browser:: |
| Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the |
| 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. |
| |
| help.format:: |
| Override the default help format used by linkgit:git-help[1]. |
| Values 'man', 'info', 'web' and 'html' are supported. 'man' is |
| the default. 'web' and 'html' are the same. |
| |
| help.autocorrect:: |
| Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after |
| waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more |
| than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing |
| will be executed. If the value of this option is negative, |
| the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the |
| value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed. |
| This is the default. |
| |
| help.htmlpath:: |
| Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File system paths |
| and URLs are supported. HTML pages will be prefixed with this path when |
| help is displayed in the 'web' format. This defaults to the documentation |
| path of your Git installation. |
| |
| http.proxy:: |
| Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy', |
| 'https_proxy', and 'all_proxy' environment variables (see |
| `curl(1)`). This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see |
| remote.<name>.proxy |
| |
| http.cookiefile:: |
| File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used |
| in the Git http session, if they match the server. The file format |
| of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or |
| the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see linkgit:curl[1]). |
| NOTE that the file specified with http.cookiefile is only used as |
| input. No cookies will be stored in the file. |
| |
| http.sslVerify:: |
| Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing |
| over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment |
| variable. |
| |
| http.sslCert:: |
| File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing |
| over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CERT' environment |
| variable. |
| |
| http.sslKey:: |
| File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing |
| over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_KEY' environment |
| variable. |
| |
| http.sslCertPasswordProtected:: |
| Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise |
| OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the |
| certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the |
| 'GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED' environment variable. |
| |
| http.sslCAInfo:: |
| File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when |
| fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the |
| 'GIT_SSL_CAINFO' environment variable. |
| |
| http.sslCAPath:: |
| Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer |
| with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden |
| by the 'GIT_SSL_CAPATH' environment variable. |
| |
| http.maxRequests:: |
| How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden |
| by the 'GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS' environment variable. Default is 5. |
| |
| http.minSessions:: |
| The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across |
| requests. They will not be ended with curl_easy_cleanup() until |
| http_cleanup() is invoked. If USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this |
| value will be capped at 1. Defaults to 1. |
| |
| http.postBuffer:: |
| Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP |
| transports when POSTing data to the remote system. |
| For requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and |
| Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a |
| massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is |
| sufficient for most requests. |
| |
| http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime:: |
| If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit' |
| for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted. |
| Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT' and |
| 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME' environment variables. |
| |
| http.noEPSV:: |
| A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl. |
| This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't |
| support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV' |
| environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV). |
| |
| http.useragent:: |
| The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default |
| value represents the version of the client Git such as git/1.7.1. |
| This option allows you to override this value to a more common value |
| such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if |
| connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set |
| of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1). |
| Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT' environment variable. |
| |
| i18n.commitEncoding:: |
| Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself |
| does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when |
| importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history |
| browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other |
| porcelains). See e.g. linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]. Defaults to 'utf-8'. |
| |
| i18n.logOutputEncoding:: |
| Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when |
| running 'git log' and friends. |
| |
| imap:: |
| The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described |
| in linkgit:git-imap-send[1]. |
| |
| init.templatedir:: |
| Specify the directory from which templates will be copied. |
| (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].) |
| |
| instaweb.browser:: |
| Specify the program that will be used to browse your working |
| repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1]. |
| |
| instaweb.httpd:: |
| The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working |
| repository. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1]. |
| |
| instaweb.local:: |
| If true the web server started by linkgit:git-instaweb[1] will |
| be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1). |
| |
| instaweb.modulepath:: |
| The default module path for linkgit:git-instaweb[1] to use |
| instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd |
| is Apache. |
| |
| instaweb.port:: |
| The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See |
| linkgit:git-instaweb[1]. |
| |
| interactive.singlekey:: |
| In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter |
| input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter). |
| Currently this is used by the `--patch` mode of |
| linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], linkgit:git-commit[1], |
| linkgit:git-reset[1], and linkgit:git-stash[1]. Note that this |
| setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input |
| is not available. |
| |
| log.abbrevCommit:: |
| If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and |
| linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--abbrev-commit`. You may |
| override this option with `--no-abbrev-commit`. |
| |
| log.date:: |
| Set the default date-time mode for the 'log' command. |
| Setting a value for log.date is similar to using 'git log''s |
| `--date` option. Possible values are `relative`, `local`, |
| `default`, `iso`, `rfc`, and `short`; see linkgit:git-log[1] |
| for details. |
| |
| log.decorate:: |
| Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log |
| command. If 'short' is specified, the ref name prefixes 'refs/heads/', |
| 'refs/tags/' and 'refs/remotes/' will not be printed. If 'full' is |
| specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. |
| This is the same as the log commands '--decorate' option. |
| |
| log.showroot:: |
| If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event. |
| This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree. |
| Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which |
| normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default. |
| |
| log.mailmap:: |
| If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and |
| linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `--use-mailmap`. |
| |
| mailmap.file:: |
| The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default |
| mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded |
| first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable. |
| The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository |
| subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself. |
| See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1]. |
| |
| mailmap.blob:: |
| Like `mailmap.file`, but consider the value as a reference to a |
| blob in the repository. If both `mailmap.file` and |
| `mailmap.blob` are given, both are parsed, with entries from |
| `mailmap.file` taking precedence. In a bare repository, this |
| defaults to `HEAD:.mailmap`. In a non-bare repository, it |
| defaults to empty. |
| |
| man.viewer:: |
| Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the |
| 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. |
| |
| man.<tool>.cmd:: |
| Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The |
| specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page |
| passed as argument. (See linkgit:git-help[1].) |
| |
| man.<tool>.path:: |
| Override the path for the given tool that may be used to |
| display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. |
| |
| include::merge-config.txt[] |
| |
| mergetool.<tool>.path:: |
| Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case |
| your tool is not in the PATH. |
| |
| mergetool.<tool>.cmd:: |
| Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The |
| specified command is evaluated in shell with the following |
| variables available: 'BASE' is the name of a temporary file |
| containing the common base of the files to be merged, if available; |
| 'LOCAL' is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of |
| the file on the current branch; 'REMOTE' is the name of a temporary |
| file containing the contents of the file from the branch being |
| merged; 'MERGED' contains the name of the file to which the merge |
| tool should write the results of a successful merge. |
| |
| mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode:: |
| For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of |
| the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was |
| successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file |
| timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful |
| if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to |
| indicate the success of the merge. |
| |
| mergetool.keepBackup:: |
| After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers |
| can be saved as a file with a `.orig` extension. If this variable |
| is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to |
| `true` (i.e. keep the backup files). |
| |
| mergetool.keepTemporaries:: |
| When invoking a custom merge tool, Git uses a set of temporary |
| files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this |
| variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be |
| preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has |
| exited. Defaults to `false`. |
| |
| mergetool.prompt:: |
| Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program. |
| |
| notes.displayRef:: |
| The (fully qualified) refname from which to show notes when |
| showing commit messages. The value of this variable can be set |
| to a glob, in which case notes from all matching refs will be |
| shown. You may also specify this configuration variable |
| several times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not |
| exist, but a glob that does not match any refs is silently |
| ignored. |
| + |
| This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF` |
| environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or |
| globs. |
| + |
| The effective value of "core.notesRef" (possibly overridden by |
| GIT_NOTES_REF) is also implicitly added to the list of refs to be |
| displayed. |
| |
| notes.rewrite.<command>:: |
| When rewriting commits with <command> (currently `amend` or |
| `rebase`) and this variable is set to `true`, Git |
| automatically copies your notes from the original to the |
| rewritten commit. Defaults to `true`, but see |
| "notes.rewriteRef" below. |
| |
| notes.rewriteMode:: |
| When copying notes during a rewrite (see the |
| "notes.rewrite.<command>" option), determines what to do if |
| the target commit already has a note. Must be one of |
| `overwrite`, `concatenate`, or `ignore`. Defaults to |
| `concatenate`. |
| + |
| This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE` |
| environment variable. |
| |
| notes.rewriteRef:: |
| When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully |
| qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. The ref may be a |
| glob, in which case notes in all matching refs will be copied. |
| You may also specify this configuration several times. |
| + |
| Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to |
| enable note rewriting. Set it to `refs/notes/commits` to enable |
| rewriting for the default commit notes. |
| + |
| This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF` |
| environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or |
| globs. |
| |
| pack.window:: |
| The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no |
| window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10. |
| |
| pack.depth:: |
| The maximum delta depth used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no |
| maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50. |
| |
| pack.windowMemory:: |
| The window memory size limit used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] |
| when no limit is given on the command line. The value can be |
| suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". Defaults to 0, meaning no |
| limit. |
| |
| pack.compression:: |
| An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects |
| in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no |
| compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being |
| slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is |
| not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default |
| compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent |
| to level 6)." |
| + |
| Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress |
| all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing the -F option |
| to linkgit:git-repack[1]. |
| |
| pack.deltaCacheSize:: |
| The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in |
| linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] before writing them out to a pack. |
| This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not |
| having to recompute the final delta result once the best match |
| for all objects is found. Repacking large repositories on machines |
| which are tight with memory might be badly impacted by this though, |
| especially if this cache pushes the system into swapping. |
| A value of 0 means no limit. The smallest size of 1 byte may be |
| used to virtually disable this cache. Defaults to 256 MiB. |
| |
| pack.deltaCacheLimit:: |
| The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in |
| linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. This cache is used to speed up the |
| writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta |
| result once the best match for all objects is found. Defaults to 1000. |
| |
| pack.threads:: |
| Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best |
| delta matches. This requires that linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] |
| be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a |
| warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor |
| machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window |
| is however multiplied by the number of threads. |
| Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the number of CPU's |
| and set the number of threads accordingly. |
| |
| pack.indexVersion:: |
| Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for |
| legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for |
| the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB |
| as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted |
| packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced |
| and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is |
| larger than 2 GB. |
| + |
| If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 `*.idx` file, |
| cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http" and "rsync") |
| that will copy both `*.pack` file and corresponding `*.idx` file from the |
| other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your |
| older version of Git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however, |
| you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate |
| the `*.idx` file. |
| |
| pack.packSizeLimit:: |
| The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects |
| packing to a file when repacking, i.e. the git:// protocol |
| is unaffected. It can be overridden by the `--max-pack-size` |
| option of linkgit:git-repack[1]. The minimum size allowed is |
| limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited. |
| Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are |
| supported. |
| |
| pager.<cmd>:: |
| If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the |
| output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty. |
| Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the |
| pager specified by the value of `pager.<cmd>`. If `--paginate` |
| or `--no-pager` is specified on the command line, it takes |
| precedence over this option. To disable pagination for all |
| commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`. |
| |
| pretty.<name>:: |
| Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in |
| linkgit:git-log[1]. Any aliases defined here can be used just |
| as the built-in pretty formats could. For example, |
| running `git config pretty.changelog "format:* %H %s"` |
| would cause the invocation `git log --pretty=changelog` |
| to be equivalent to running `git log "--pretty=format:* %H %s"`. |
| Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format |
| will be silently ignored. |
| |
| pull.rebase:: |
| When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead |
| of merging the default branch from the default remote when "git |
| pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a |
| per-branch basis. |
| + |
| *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use |
| it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] |
| for details). |
| |
| pull.octopus:: |
| The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches |
| at once. |
| |
| pull.twohead:: |
| The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch. |
| |
| push.default:: |
| Defines the action `git push` should take if no refspec is given |
| on the command line, no refspec is configured in the remote, and |
| no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command |
| line. Possible values are: |
| + |
| -- |
| * `nothing` - do not push anything. |
| * `matching` - push all branches having the same name in both ends. |
| This is for those who prepare all the branches into a publishable |
| shape and then push them out with a single command. It is not |
| appropriate for pushing into a repository shared by multiple users, |
| since locally stalled branches will attempt a non-fast forward push |
| if other users updated the branch. |
| + |
| This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default |
| to `simple`. |
| * `upstream` - push the current branch to its upstream branch |
| (`tracking` is a deprecated synonym for this). |
| With this, `git push` will update the same remote ref as the one which |
| is merged by `git pull`, making `push` and `pull` symmetrical. |
| See "branch.<name>.merge" for how to configure the upstream branch. |
| * `simple` - like `upstream`, but refuses to push if the upstream |
| branch's name is different from the local one. This is the safest |
| option and is well-suited for beginners. It will become the default |
| in Git 2.0. |
| * `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name. |
| -- |
| + |
| The `simple`, `current` and `upstream` modes are for those who want to |
| push out a single branch after finishing work, even when the other |
| branches are not yet ready to be pushed out. If you are working with |
| other people to push into the same shared repository, you would want |
| to use one of these. |
| |
| rebase.stat:: |
| Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last |
| rebase. False by default. |
| |
| rebase.autosquash:: |
| If set to true enable '--autosquash' option by default. |
| |
| receive.autogc:: |
| By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after |
| receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop |
| it by setting this variable to false. |
| |
| receive.fsckObjects:: |
| If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received |
| objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a |
| broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. |
| Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects` |
| is used instead. |
| |
| receive.unpackLimit:: |
| If the number of objects received in a push is below this |
| limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object |
| files. However if the number of received objects equals or |
| exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as |
| a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the |
| pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, |
| especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of |
| `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. |
| |
| receive.denyDeletes:: |
| If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes |
| the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push. |
| |
| receive.denyDeleteCurrent:: |
| If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that |
| deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. |
| |
| receive.denyCurrentBranch:: |
| If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update |
| to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. |
| Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD |
| out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn", |
| print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to |
| proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no |
| message. Defaults to "refuse". |
| |
| receive.denyNonFastForwards:: |
| If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is |
| not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push, |
| even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is |
| set when initializing a shared repository. |
| |
| receive.hiderefs:: |
| String(s) `receive-pack` uses to decide which refs to omit |
| from its initial advertisement. Use more than one |
| definitions to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that |
| are under the hierarchies listed on the value of this |
| variable is excluded, and is hidden when responding to `git |
| push`, and an attempt to update or delete a hidden ref by |
| `git push` is rejected. |
| |
| receive.updateserverinfo:: |
| If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info |
| after receiving data from git-push and updating refs. |
| |
| remote.<name>.url:: |
| The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or |
| linkgit:git-push[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.pushurl:: |
| The push URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-push[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.proxy:: |
| For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL to |
| the proxy to use for that remote. Set to the empty string to |
| disable proxying for that remote. |
| |
| remote.<name>.fetch:: |
| The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-fetch[1]. See |
| linkgit:git-fetch[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.push:: |
| The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-push[1]. See |
| linkgit:git-push[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.mirror:: |
| If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave |
| as if the `--mirror` option was given on the command line. |
| |
| remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate:: |
| If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating |
| using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of |
| linkgit:git-remote[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.skipFetchAll:: |
| If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating |
| using linkgit:git-fetch[1] or the `update` subcommand of |
| linkgit:git-remote[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.receivepack:: |
| The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See |
| option \--receive-pack of linkgit:git-push[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.uploadpack:: |
| The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See |
| option \--upload-pack of linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.tagopt:: |
| Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when |
| fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to \--tags will fetch every |
| tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote |
| branch heads. Passing these flags directly to linkgit:git-fetch[1] can |
| override this setting. See options \--tags and \--no-tags of |
| linkgit:git-fetch[1]. |
| |
| remote.<name>.vcs:: |
| Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with |
| the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper. |
| |
| remotes.<group>:: |
| The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update |
| <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1]. |
| |
| repack.usedeltabaseoffset:: |
| By default, linkgit:git-repack[1] creates packs that use |
| delta-base offset. If you need to share your repository with |
| Git older than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb |
| protocol such as http, then you need to set this option to |
| "false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the |
| native protocol are unaffected by this option. |
| |
| rerere.autoupdate:: |
| When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the |
| resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using |
| previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false. |
| |
| rerere.enabled:: |
| Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical |
| conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they be |
| encountered again. By default, linkgit:git-rerere[1] is |
| enabled if there is an `rr-cache` directory under the |
| `$GIT_DIR`, e.g. if "rerere" was previously used in the |
| repository. |
| |
| sendemail.identity:: |
| A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the |
| 'sendemail.<identity>' subsection to take precedence over |
| values in the 'sendemail' section. The default identity is |
| the value of 'sendemail.identity'. |
| |
| sendemail.smtpencryption:: |
| See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this |
| setting is not subject to the 'identity' mechanism. |
| |
| sendemail.smtpssl:: |
| Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.smtpencryption = ssl'. |
| |
| sendemail.<identity>.*:: |
| Identity-specific versions of the 'sendemail.*' parameters |
| found below, taking precedence over those when the this |
| identity is selected, through command-line or |
| 'sendemail.identity'. |
| |
| sendemail.aliasesfile:: |
| sendemail.aliasfiletype:: |
| sendemail.bcc:: |
| sendemail.cc:: |
| sendemail.cccmd:: |
| sendemail.chainreplyto:: |
| sendemail.confirm:: |
| sendemail.envelopesender:: |
| sendemail.from:: |
| sendemail.multiedit:: |
| sendemail.signedoffbycc:: |
| sendemail.smtppass:: |
| sendemail.suppresscc:: |
| sendemail.suppressfrom:: |
| sendemail.to:: |
| sendemail.smtpdomain:: |
| sendemail.smtpserver:: |
| sendemail.smtpserverport:: |
| sendemail.smtpserveroption:: |
| sendemail.smtpuser:: |
| sendemail.thread:: |
| sendemail.validate:: |
| See linkgit:git-send-email[1] for description. |
| |
| sendemail.signedoffcc:: |
| Deprecated alias for 'sendemail.signedoffbycc'. |
| |
| showbranch.default:: |
| The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. |
| See linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. |
| |
| status.relativePaths:: |
| By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the |
| current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths |
| relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git |
| prior to v1.5.4). |
| |
| status.showUntrackedFiles:: |
| By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show |
| files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which |
| contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name |
| only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all |
| all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some |
| systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays |
| the untracked files. Possible values are: |
| + |
| -- |
| * `no` - Show no untracked files. |
| * `normal` - Show untracked files and directories. |
| * `all` - Show also individual files in untracked directories. |
| -- |
| + |
| If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'. |
| This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option |
| of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1]. |
| |
| status.submodulesummary:: |
| Defaults to false. |
| If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an |
| unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a |
| summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see |
| --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). |
| |
| submodule.<name>.path:: |
| submodule.<name>.url:: |
| submodule.<name>.update:: |
| The path within this project, URL, and the updating strategy |
| for a submodule. These variables are initially populated |
| by 'git submodule init'; edit them to override the |
| URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file. See |
| linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. |
| |
| submodule.<name>.branch:: |
| The remote branch name for a submodule, used by `git submodule |
| update --remote`. Set this option to override the value found in |
| the `.gitmodules` file. See linkgit:git-submodule[1] and |
| linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details. |
| |
| submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules:: |
| This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this |
| submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules |
| command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull". |
| This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5] |
| file. |
| |
| submodule.<name>.ignore:: |
| Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show |
| a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered |
| modified, "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules work tree and |
| takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit |
| recorded in the superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally |
| let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up. |
| Using "none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows |
| submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed. |
| This setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule, |
| both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the |
| "--ignore-submodules" option. |
| |
| tar.umask:: |
| This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of |
| tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the |
| world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the |
| archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and |
| linkgit:git-archive[1]. |
| |
| transfer.fsckObjects:: |
| When `fetch.fsckObjects` or `receive.fsckObjects` are |
| not set, the value of this variable is used instead. |
| Defaults to false. |
| |
| transfer.hiderefs:: |
| This variable can be used to set both `receive.hiderefs` |
| and `uploadpack.hiderefs` at the same time to the same |
| values. See entries for these other variables. |
| |
| transfer.unpackLimit:: |
| When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are |
| not set, the value of this variable is used instead. |
| The default value is 100. |
| |
| uploadpack.hiderefs:: |
| String(s) `upload-pack` uses to decide which refs to omit |
| from its initial advertisement. Use more than one |
| definitions to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that |
| are under the hierarchies listed on the value of this |
| variable is excluded, and is hidden from `git ls-remote`, |
| `git fetch`, etc. An attempt to fetch a hidden ref by `git |
| fetch` will fail. |
| |
| url.<base>.insteadOf:: |
| Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to |
| start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a |
| large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple |
| access methods, and some users need to use different access |
| methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the |
| equivalent URLs and have Git automatically rewrite the URL to |
| the best alternative for the particular user, even for a |
| never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one |
| insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used. |
| |
| url.<base>.pushInsteadOf:: |
| Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to; |
| instead, it will be rewritten to start with <base>, and the |
| resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves |
| a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple |
| access methods, some of which do not allow push, this feature |
| allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have Git |
| automatically use an appropriate URL to push, even for a |
| never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one |
| pushInsteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is |
| used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will ignore this |
| setting for that remote. |
| |
| user.email:: |
| Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. |
| Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', and |
| 'EMAIL' environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. |
| |
| user.name:: |
| Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. |
| Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME' and 'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME' |
| environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1]. |
| |
| user.signingkey:: |
| If linkgit:git-tag[1] is not selecting the key you want it to |
| automatically when creating a signed tag, you can override the |
| default selection with this variable. This option is passed |
| unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key |
| using any method that gpg supports. |
| |
| web.browser:: |
| Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands. |
| Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1] |
| may use it. |