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NAME
git-config - Get and set repository or global options
SYNOPSIS
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
git config [<file-option>] [type] --add name value
git config [<file-option>] [type] --replace-all name value [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-urlmatch name URL
git config [<file-option>] --unset name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name
git config [<file-option>] --remove-section name
git config [<file-option>] [-z|--null] -l | --list
git config [<file-option>] --get-color name [default]
git config [<file-option>] --get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
git config [<file-option>] -e | --edit
DESCRIPTION
You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is actually the
section and the key separated by a dot, and the value will be escaped.
Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the --add option. If you want to update
or unset an option which can occur on multiple lines, a POSIX regexp value_regex needs to
be given. Only the existing values that match the regexp are updated or unset. If you want
to handle the lines that do not match the regex, just prepend a single exclamation mark in
front (see also the section called “EXAMPLES”).
The type specifier can be either --int or --bool, to make git config ensure that the
variable(s) are of the given type and convert the value to the canonical form (simple
decimal number for int, a "true" or "false" string for bool), or --path, which does some
path expansion (see --path below). If no type specifier is passed, no checks or
transformations are performed on the value.
When reading, the values are read from the system, global and repository local
configuration files by default, and options --system, --global, --local and --file
<filename> can be used to tell the command to read from only that location (see the
section called “FILES”).
When writing, the new value is written to the repository local configuration file by
default, and options --system, --global, --file <filename> can be used to tell the command
to write to that location (you can say --local but that is the default).
This command will fail with non-zero status upon error. Some exit codes are:
1. The config file is invalid (ret=3),
2. can not write to the config file (ret=4),
3. no section or name was provided (ret=2),
4. the section or key is invalid (ret=1),
5. you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5),
6. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), or
7. you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6).
On success, the command returns the exit code 0.
OPTIONS
--replace-all
Default behavior is to replace at most one line. This replaces all lines matching the
key (and optionally the value_regex).
--add
Adds a new line to the option without altering any existing values. This is the same
as providing ^$ as the value_regex in --replace-all.
--get
Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex matching the value).
Returns error code 1 if the key was not found and the last value if multiple key
values were found.
--get-all
Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key is not exactly one.
--get-regexp
Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression and writes out the key
names. Regular expression matching is currently case-sensitive and done against a
canonicalized version of the key in which section and variable names are lowercased,
but subsection names are not.
--get-urlmatch name URL
When given a two-part name section.key, the value for section.<url>.key whose <url>
part matches the best to the given URL is returned (if no such key exists, the value
for section.key is used as a fallback). When given just the section as name, do so for
all the keys in the section and list them.
--global
For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than the repository
.git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if this file exists and the
~/.gitconfig file doesn’t.
For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig and from
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config rather than from all available files.
See also the section called “FILES”.
--system
For writing options: write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than the
repository .git/config.
For reading options: read only from system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than
from all available files.
See also the section called “FILES”.
--local
For writing options: write to the repository .git/config file. This is the default
behavior.
For reading options: read only from the repository .git/config rather than from all
available files.
See also the section called “FILES”.
-f config-file, --file config-file
Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG.
--blob blob
Similar to --file but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g. you can use
master:.gitmodules to read values from the file .gitmodules in the master branch. See
"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitrevisions(7) for a more complete list of ways to
spell blob names.
--remove-section
Remove the given section from the configuration file.
--rename-section
Rename the given section to a new name.
--unset
Remove the line matching the key from config file.
--unset-all
Remove all lines matching the key from config file.
-l, --list
List all variables set in config file.
--bool
git config will ensure that the output is "true" or "false"
--int
git config will ensure that the output is a simple decimal number. An optional value
suffix of k, m, or g in the config file will cause the value to be multiplied by 1024,
1048576, or 1073741824 prior to output.
--bool-or-int
git config will ensure that the output matches the format of either --bool or --int,
as described above.
--path
git-config will expand leading ~ to the value of $HOME, and ~user to the home
directory for the specified user. This option has no effect when setting the value
(but you can use git config bla ~/ from the command line to let your shell do the
expansion).
-z, --null
For all options that output values and/or keys, always end values with the null
character (instead of a newline). Use newline instead as a delimiter between key and
value. This allows for secure parsing of the output without getting confused e.g. by
values that contain line breaks.
--get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
Find the color setting for name (e.g. color.diff) and output "true" or "false".
stdout-is-tty should be either "true" or "false", and is taken into account when
configuration says "auto". If stdout-is-tty is missing, then checks the standard
output of the command itself, and exits with status 0 if color is to be used, or exits
with status 1 otherwise. When the color setting for name is undefined, the command
uses color.ui as fallback.
--get-color name [default]
Find the color configured for name (e.g. color.diff.new) and output it as the ANSI
color escape sequence to the standard output. The optional default parameter is used
instead, if there is no color configured for name.
-e, --edit
Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either --system, --global, or
repository (default).
--[no-]includes
Respect include.* directives in config files when looking up values. Defaults to on.
FILES
If not set explicitly with --file, there are four files where git config will search for
configuration options:
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
System-wide configuration file.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set or empty,
$HOME/.config/git/config will be used. Any single-valued variable set in this file
will be overwritten by whatever is in ~/.gitconfig. It is a good idea not to create
this file if you sometimes use older versions of Git, as support for this file was
added fairly recently.
~/.gitconfig
User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" configuration file.
$GIT_DIR/config
Repository specific configuration file.
If no further options are given, all reading options will read all of these files that are
available. If the global or the system-wide configuration file are not available they will
be ignored. If the repository configuration file is not available or readable, git config
will exit with a non-zero error code. However, in neither case will an error message be
issued.
The files are read in the order given above, with last value found taking precedence over
values read earlier. When multiple values are taken then all values of a key from all
files will be used.
All writing options will per default write to the repository specific configuration file.
Note that this also affects options like --replace-all and --unset. git config will only
ever change one file at a time.
You can override these rules either by command line options or by environment variables.
The --global and the --system options will limit the file used to the global or
system-wide file respectively. The GIT_CONFIG environment variable has a similar effect,
but you can specify any filename you want.
ENVIRONMENT
GIT_CONFIG
Take the configuration from the given file instead of .git/config. Using the
"--global" option forces this to ~/.gitconfig. Using the "--system" option forces this
to $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.
GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig file.
See git(1) for details.
See also the section called “FILES”.
EXAMPLES
Given a .git/config like this:
#
# This is the config file, and
# a '#' or ';' character indicates
# a comment
#
; core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
; Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
; Proxy settings
[core]
gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org
gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
; HTTP
[http]
sslVerify
[http "https://weak.example.com"]
sslVerify = false
cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
you can set the filemode to true with
% git config core.filemode true
The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern what URL they
apply to. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org to "ssh".
% git config core.gitproxy '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$'
This makes sure that only the key/value pair for kernel.org is replaced.
To delete the entry for renames, do
% git config --unset diff.renames
If you want to delete an entry for a multivar (like core.gitproxy above), you have to
provide a regex matching the value of exactly one line.
To query the value for a given key, do
% git config --get core.filemode
or
% git config core.filemode
or, to query a multivar:
% git config --get core.gitproxy "for kernel.org$"
If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do:
% git config --get-all core.gitproxy
If you like to live dangerously, you can replace all core.gitproxy by a new one with
% git config --replace-all core.gitproxy ssh
However, if you really only want to replace the line for the default proxy, i.e. the one
without a "for ..." postfix, do something like this:
% git config core.gitproxy ssh '! for '
To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to
% git config section.key value '[!]'
To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use
% git config --add core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'
An example to use customized color from the configuration in your script:
#!/bin/sh
WS=$(git config --get-color color.diff.whitespace "blue reverse")
RESET=$(git config --get-color "" "reset")
echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}"
For URLs in https://weak.example.com, http.sslVerify is set to false, while it is set to
true for all others:
% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com
true
% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com
false
% git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
http.cookiefile /tmp/cookie.txt
http.sslverify false
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 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 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 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 git-push(1) rejects an update that does not qualify for fast-forwarding
(e.g., a tag.)
pushFetchFirst
Shown when 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 git-push(1) rejects an update that tries to overwrite a remote ref that
points at an object that is not a commit-ish, or make the remote ref point at an
object that is not a commit-ish.
statusHints
Show directions on how to proceed from the current state in the output of git-
status(1), in the template shown when writing commit messages in git-commit(1),
and in the help message shown by git-checkout(1) when switching branch.
statusUoption
Advise to consider using the -u option to git-status(1) when the command takes
more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked files.
commitBeforeMerge
Advice shown when 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 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 git-am(1) fails to apply it.
rmHints
In case of failure in the output of git-rm(1), show directions on how to proceed
from the current state.
core.fileMode
If false, the executable bit differences between the index and the working tree are
ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. See git-update-index(1).
The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set
core.fileMode false if appropriate when the repository is created.
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 git-clone(1) or 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.protectHFS
If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would be considered equivalent to
.git on an HFS+ filesystem. Defaults to true on Mac OS, and false elsewhere.
core.protectNTFS
If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would cause problems with the NTFS
filesystem, e.g. conflict with 8.3 "short" names. Defaults to true on Windows, and
false elsewhere.
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 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 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. git-update-index(1) and 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 git-clone(1) or 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 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 git-add(1) or git-merge(1).
This setting is automatically guessed by git-clone(1) or 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 SHA-1, 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 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 repository. 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 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 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 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 instruction 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
Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., less). The value is meant to be interpreted
by the shell. The order of preference is the $GIT_PAGER environment variable, then
core.pager configuration, then $PAGER, and then the default chosen at compile time
(usually less).
When the LESS environment variable is unset, Git sets it to FRSX (if LESS environment
variable is set, Git does not change it at all). If you want to selectively override
Git’s default setting for LESS, you can set core.pager to e.g. less -+S. This will be
passed to the shell by Git, which will translate the final command to LESS=FRSX less
-+S. The environment tells the command to set the S option to chop long lines but the
command line resets it to the default to fold long lines.
Likewise, when the LV environment variable is unset, Git sets it to -c. You can
override this setting by exporting LV with another value or setting core.pager to lv
+c.
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 git-notes(1).
core.sparseCheckout
Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in 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 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 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 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 git-am(1), 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 git-apply(1).
apply.whitespace
Tells git apply how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the --whitespace option.
See git-apply(1).
branch.autosetupmerge
Tells git branch and git checkout to set up new branches so that 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 on branch <name>, it tells git fetch and git push which remote to fetch from/push
to. The remote to push to may be overridden with remote.pushdefault (for all
branches). The remote to push to, for the current branch, may be further overridden by
branch.<name>.pushremote. If no remote is configured, or if you are not on any branch,
it defaults to origin for fetching and remote.pushdefault for pushing. Additionally, .
(a period) is the current local repository (a dot-repository), see
branch.<name>.merge's final note below.
branch.<name>.pushremote
When on branch <name>, it overrides branch.<name>.remote for pushing. It also
overrides remote.pushdefault for pushing from branch <name>. When you pull from one
place (e.g. your upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own publishing
repository), you would want to set remote.pushdefault to specify the remote to push to
for all branches, and use this option to override it for a specific 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 relative path 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 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.
When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
by running 'git pull'.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless you understand the
implications (see 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 git-web--browse(1).)
browser.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to browse HTML help (see -w
option in git-help(1)) or a working repository in gitweb (see git-instaweb(1)).
clean.requireForce
A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, -i or -n. Defaults to true.
color.branch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of 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/),
upstream (upstream tracking branch), 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, git-diff(1), git-log(1), and 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 git-format-patch(1) nor the git-diff-* 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" and "git-clean --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 and git clean --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 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 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
false or never if you prefer Git commands not to use color unless enabled explicitly
with some other configuration or the --color option. Set it to always if you want all
output not intended for machine consumption to use color, to true or auto (this is the
default since Git 1.8.4) if you want such output to use color when written to the
terminal.
column.ui
Specify whether supported commands should output in columns. This variable consists of
a list of tokens separated by spaces or commas:
These options control when the feature should be enabled (defaults to never):
always
always show in columns
never
never show in columns
auto
show in columns if the output is to the terminal
These options control layout (defaults to column). Setting any of these implies always
if none of always, never, or auto are specified.
column
fill columns before rows
row
fill rows before columns
plain
show in one column
Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option (defaults to nodense):
dense
make unequal size columns to utilize more space
nodense
make equal size columns
column.branch
Specify whether to output branch listing in git branch in columns. See column.ui for
details.
column.clean
Specify the layout when list items in git clean -i, which always shows files and
directories 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 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 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 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 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 gitcredentials(7) for details on how
URLs are matched.
diff.autorefreshindex
When using git diff to compare with work tree files, do not consider stat-only change
as changed. Instead, silently run git update-index --refresh to update the cached stat
information for paths whose contents in the work tree match the contents in the index.
This option defaults to true. Note that this affects only git diff Porcelain, and not
lower level diff commands such as git diff-files.
diff.dirstat
A comma separated list of --dirstat parameters specifying the default behavior of the
--dirstat option to git-diff(1)` and friends. The defaults can be overridden on the
command line (using --dirstat=<param1,param2,...>). The fallback defaults (when not
changed by diff.dirstat) are changes,noncumulative,3. The following parameters are
available:
changes
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been removed from the
source, or added to the destination. This ignores the amount of pure code
movements within a file. In other words, rearranging lines in a file is not
counted as much as other changes. This is the default behavior when no parameter
is given.
lines
Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff analysis, and
summing the removed/added line counts. (For binary files, count 64-byte chunks
instead, since binary files have no natural concept of lines). This is a more
expensive --dirstat behavior than the changes behavior, but it does count
rearranged lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output is
consistent with what you get from the other --*stat options.
files
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed. Each changed
file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This is the computationally cheapest
--dirstat behavior, since it does not have to look at the file contents at all.
cumulative
Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well. Note that
when using cumulative, the sum of the percentages reported may exceed 100%. The
default (non-cumulative) behavior can be specified with the noncumulative
parameter.
<limit>
An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default). Directories
contributing less than this percentage of the changes are not shown in the output.
Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring directories with less
than 10% of the total amount of changed files, and accumulating child directory counts
in the parent directories: files,10,cumulative.
diff.statGraphWidth
Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies to all commands
generating --stat output except format-patch.
diff.context
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default of 3. This value is
overridden by the -U option.
diff.external
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal
diff machinery, but using the given command. Can be overridden with the
‘GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF’ environment variable. The command is called with parameters as
described under "git Diffs" in git(1). Note: if you want to use an external diff
program only on a subset of your files, you might want to use gitattributes(5)
instead.
diff.ignoreSubmodules
Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this affects only git diff
Porcelain, and not lower level diff commands such as git diff-files. git checkout
also honors this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to all
disables the submodule summary normally shown by git commit and git status when
status.submodulesummary is set unless it is overridden by using the
--ignore-submodules command line option. The git submodule commands are not affected
by this setting.
diff.mnemonicprefix
If set, git diff uses a prefix pair that is different from the standard "a/" and "b/"
depending on what is being compared. When this configuration is in effect, reverse
diff output also swaps the order of the prefixes:
git diff
compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
git diff HEAD
compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
git diff --cached
compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
git diff HEAD:file1 file2
compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
git diff --no-index a b
compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
diff.noprefix
If set, git diff does not show any source or destination prefix.
diff.orderfile
File indicating how to order files within a diff, using one shell glob pattern per
line. Can be overridden by the -O option to git-diff(1).
diff.renameLimit
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent
to the git diff option -l.
diff.renames
Tells Git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it will enable basic rename
detection. If set to "copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well.
diff.suppressBlankEmpty
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space before each empty
output line. Defaults to false.
diff.submodule
Specify the format in which differences in submodules are shown. The "log" format
lists the commits in the range like git-submodule(1)summary does. The "short" format
format just shows the names of the commits at the beginning and end of the range.
Defaults to short.
diff.wordRegex
A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word" when performing
word-by-word difference calculations. Character sequences that match the regular
expression are "words", all other characters are ignorable whitespace.
diff.<driver>.command
The custom diff driver command. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.xfuncname
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to recognize the hunk header. A
built-in pattern may also be used. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.binary
Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as binary. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.textconv
The command that the diff driver should call to generate the text-converted version of
a file. The result of the conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.wordregex
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to split words in a line. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.cachetextconv
Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text conversion outputs. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.tool
Controls which diff tool is used by git-difftool(1). This variable overrides the value
configured in merge.tool. The list below shows the valid built-in values. Any other
value is treated as a custom diff tool and requires that a corresponding
difftool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined.
• araxis
• bc3
• codecompare
• deltawalker
• diffmerge
• diffuse
• ecmerge
• emerge
• gvimdiff
• gvimdiff2
• kdiff3
• kompare
• meld
• opendiff
• p4merge
• tkdiff
• vimdiff
• vimdiff2
• xxdiff
diff.algorithm
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
default, myers
The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default.
minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is produced.
patience
Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
histogram
This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support low-occurrence common
elements".
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.
fetch.prune
If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the --prune option was given on the
command line. See also remote.<name>.prune.
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 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
git-format-patch(1).
format.headers
Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See 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 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 git-log(1), git-
show(1), 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.
format.coverLetter
A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when format-patch is
invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to generate a cover-letter only when
there’s more than one patch.
filter.<driver>.clean
The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree file to a blob upon
checkin. See 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 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 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 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 git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.logfile
Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs various stuff. See 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 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 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 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 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 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 gitweb(1) for description.
gitweb.avatar, gitweb.blame, gitweb.grep, gitweb.highlight, gitweb.patches,
gitweb.pickaxe, gitweb.remote_heads, gitweb.showsizes, gitweb.snapshot
See 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 git-gui(1). "75" is the default.
gui.diffcontext
Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff made by the git-
gui(1). The default is "5".
gui.encoding
Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of file contents in git-gui(1)
and gitk(1). It can be overridden by setting the encoding attribute for relevant files
(see gitattributes(5)). If this option is not set, the tools default to the locale
encoding.
gui.matchtrackingbranch
Determines if new branches created with 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 git-gui(1).
gui.pruneduringfetch
"true" if git-gui(1) should prune remote-tracking branches when performing a fetch.
The default value is "false".
gui.trustmtime
Determines if 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 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 git-blame(1) manual for more information on copy
detection.
gui.blamehistoryctx
Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in 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 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 git-
help(1).
help.format
Override the default help format used by 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 curl(1)).
NOTE that the file specified with http.cookiefile is only used as input unless
http.saveCookies is set.
http.savecookies
If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by
http.cookiefile. Has no effect if http.cookiefile is unset.
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.sslTry
Attempt to use AUTH SSL/TLS and encrypted data transfers when connecting via regular
FTP protocol. This might be needed if the FTP server requires it for security reasons
or you wish to connect securely whenever remote FTP server supports it. Default is
false since it might trigger certificate verification errors on misconfigured servers.
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.
http.<url>.*
Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some urls. For a config
key to match a URL, each element of the config key is compared to that of the URL, in
the following order:
1. Scheme (e.g., https in https://example.com/). This field must match exactly
between the config key and the URL.
2. Host/domain name (e.g., example.com in https://example.com/). This field must
match exactly between the config key and the URL.
3. Port number (e.g., 8080 in http://example.com:8080/). This field must match
exactly between the config key and the URL. Omitted port numbers are automatically
converted to the correct default for the scheme before matching.
4. Path (e.g., repo.git in https://example.com/repo.git). The path field of the
config key must match the path field of the URL either exactly or as a prefix of
slash-delimited path elements. This means a config key with path foo/ matches URL
path foo/bar. A prefix can only match on a slash (/) boundary. Longer matches take
precedence (so a config key with path foo/bar is a better match to URL path
foo/bar than a config key with just path foo/).
5. User name (e.g., user in https://user@example.com/repo.git). If the config key has
a user name it must match the user name in the URL exactly. If the config key does
not have a user name, that config key will match a URL with any user name
(including none), but at a lower precedence than a config key with a user name.
The list above is ordered by decreasing precedence; a URL that matches a config key’s
path is preferred to one that matches its user name. For example, if the URL is
https://user@example.com/foo/bar a config key match of https://example.com/foo will be
preferred over a config key match of https://user@example.com.
All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part, if embedded
in the URL, is always ignored for matching purposes) so that equivalent urls that are
simply spelled differently will match properly. Environment variable settings always
override any matches. The urls that are matched against are those given directly to
Git commands. This means any URLs visited as a result of a redirection do not
participate in matching.
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. 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 git-imap-send(1).
init.templatedir
Specify the directory from which templates will be copied. (See the "TEMPLATE
DIRECTORY" section of git-init(1).)
instaweb.browser
Specify the program that will be used to browse your working repository in gitweb. See
git-instaweb(1).
instaweb.httpd
The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working repository. See git-
instaweb(1).
instaweb.local
If true the web server started by git-instaweb(1) will be bound to the local IP
(127.0.0.1).
instaweb.modulepath
The default module path for 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 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 git-
add(1), git-checkout(1), git-commit(1), git-reset(1), and git-stash(1). Note that this
setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input is not available.
log.abbrevCommit
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and 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 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 git-log(1) or git-whatchanged(1), which
normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
log.mailmap
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and 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 git-shortlog(1) and 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 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 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 git-help(1).
merge.conflictstyle
Specify the style in which conflicted hunks are written out to working tree files upon
merge. The default is "merge", which shows a <<<<<<< conflict marker, changes made by
one side, a ======= marker, changes made by the other side, and then a >>>>>>> marker.
An alternate style, "diff3", adds a ||||||| marker and the original text before the
======= marker.
merge.defaultToUpstream
If merge is called without any commit argument, merge the upstream branches configured
for the current branch by using their last observed values stored in their
remote-tracking branches. The values of the branch.<current branch>.merge that name
the branches at the remote named by branch.<current branch>.remote are consulted, and
then they are mapped via remote.<remote>.fetch to their corresponding remote-tracking
branches, and the tips of these tracking branches are merged.
merge.ff
By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when merging a commit that is a
descendant of the current commit. Instead, the tip of the current branch is
fast-forwarded. When set to false, this variable tells Git to create an extra merge
commit in such a case (equivalent to giving the --no-ff option from the command line).
When set to only, only such fast-forward merges are allowed (equivalent to giving the
--ff-only option from the command line).
merge.log
In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at most the specified
number of one-line descriptions from the actual commits that are being merged.
Defaults to false, and true is a synonym for 20.
merge.renameLimit
The number of files to consider when performing rename detection during a merge; if
not specified, defaults to the value of diff.renameLimit.
merge.renormalize
Tell Git that canonical representation of files in the repository has changed over
time (e.g. earlier commits record text files with CRLF line endings, but recent ones
use LF line endings). In such a repository, Git can convert the data recorded in
commits to a canonical form before performing a merge to reduce unnecessary conflicts.
For more information, see section "Merging branches with differing checkin/checkout
attributes" in gitattributes(5).
merge.stat
Whether to print the diffstat between ORIG_HEAD and the merge result at the end of the
merge. True by default.
merge.tool
Controls which merge tool is used by git-mergetool(1). The list below shows the valid
built-in values. Any other value is treated as a custom merge tool and requires that a
corresponding mergetool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined.
• araxis
• bc3
• codecompare
• deltawalker
• diffmerge
• diffuse
• ecmerge
• emerge
• gvimdiff
• gvimdiff2
• kdiff3
• meld
• opendiff
• p4merge
• tkdiff
• tortoisemerge
• vimdiff
• vimdiff2
• xxdiff
merge.verbosity
Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge strategy. Level 0 outputs
nothing except a final error message if conflicts were detected. Level 1 outputs only
conflicts, 2 outputs conflicts and file changes. Level 5 and above outputs debugging
information. The default is level 2. Can be overridden by the GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY
environment variable.
merge.<driver>.name
Defines a human-readable name for a custom low-level merge driver. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
merge.<driver>.driver
Defines the command that implements a custom low-level merge driver. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
merge.<driver>.recursive
Names a low-level merge driver to be used when performing an internal merge between
common ancestors. See gitattributes(5) for details.
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 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 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 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 git-
repack(1).
pack.deltaCacheSize
The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in 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 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 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 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 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 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.
When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase'
so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened
by running 'git pull'.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless you understand the
implications (see 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 explicitly given. Different
values are well-suited for specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central
workflow (i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination), upstream is
probably what you want. Possible values are:
• nothing - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is explicitly given.
This is primarily meant for people who want to avoid mistakes by always being
explicit.
• current - push the current branch to update a branch with the same name on the
receiving end. Works in both central and non-central workflows.
• upstream - push the current branch back to the branch whose changes are usually
integrated into the current branch (which is called @{upstream}). This mode only
makes sense if you are pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from
(i.e. central workflow).
• simple - in centralized workflow, work like upstream with an added safety to
refuse to push if the upstream branch’s name is different from the local one.
When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally pull from,
work as current. This is the safest option and is suited for beginners.
This mode will become the default in Git 2.0.
• matching - push all branches having the same name on both ends. This makes the
repository you are pushing to remember the set of branches that will be pushed out
(e.g. if you always push maint and master there and no other branches, the
repository you push to will have these two branches, and your local maint and
master will be pushed there).
To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure all the branches you would
push out are ready to be pushed out before running git push, as the whole point of
this mode is to allow you to push all of the branches in one go. If you usually
finish work on only one branch and push out the result, while other branches are
unfinished, this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not suitable for pushing
into a shared central repository, as other people may add new branches there, or
update the tip of existing branches outside your control.
This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default to simple.
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.
rebase.autostash
When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash before the operation begins,
and apply it after the operation ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty
worktree. However, use with care: the final stash application after a successful
rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts. Defaults to false.
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.
receive.shallowupdate
If set to true, .git/shallow can be updated when new refs require new shallow roots.
Otherwise those refs are rejected.
remote.pushdefault
The remote to push to by default. Overrides branch.<name>.remote for all branches, and
is overridden by branch.<name>.pushremote for specific branches.
remote.<name>.url
The URL of a remote repository. See git-fetch(1) or git-push(1).
remote.<name>.pushurl
The push URL of a remote repository. See 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 git-fetch(1). See git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.push
The default set of "refspec" for git-push(1). See 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 git-fetch(1) or
the update subcommand of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.skipFetchAll
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating using git-fetch(1) or
the update subcommand of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.receivepack
The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See option
--receive-pack of git-push(1).
remote.<name>.uploadpack
The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See option
--upload-pack of 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 git-
fetch(1) can override this setting. See options --tags and --no-tags of 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.
remote.<name>.prune
When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also remove any
remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the remote (as if the --prune
option was given on the command line). Overrides fetch.prune settings, if any.
remotes.<group>
The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See git-
remote(1).
repack.usedeltabaseoffset
By default, 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, 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 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.smtpsslcertpath
Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file). Set it to an empty
string to disable certificate verification.
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.annotate, 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 git-send-email(1) for description.
sendemail.signedoffcc
Deprecated alias for sendemail.signedoffbycc.
showbranch.default
The default set of branches for git-show-branch(1). See git-show-branch(1).
status.relativePaths
By default, 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.short
Set to true to enable --short by default in git-status(1). The option --no-short takes
precedence over this variable.
status.branch
Set to true to enable --branch by default in git-status(1). The option --no-branch
takes precedence over this variable.
status.displayCommentPrefix
If set to true, git-status(1) will insert a comment prefix before each output line
(starting with core.commentChar, i.e. # by default). This was the behavior of git-
status(1) in Git 1.8.4 and previous. Defaults to false.
status.showUntrackedFiles
By default, git-status(1) and 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 git-status(1) and 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 git-submodule(1)).
Please note that the summary output command will be suppressed for all submodules when
diff.ignoreSubmodules is set to all or only for those submodules where
submodule.<name>.ignore=all. To also view the summary for ignored submodules you can
either use the --ignore-submodules=dirty command line option or the git submodule
summary command, which shows a similar output but does not honor these settings.
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 git-submodule(1) and 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 git-submodule(1)
and 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 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. The git submodule commands are not
affected by this setting.
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 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. See also uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant.
uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant
When uploadpack.hiderefs is in effect, allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request
that asks for an object at the tip of a hidden ref (by default, such a request is
rejected). see also uploadpack.hiderefs.
uploadpack.keepalive
When upload-pack has started pack-objects, there may be a quiet period while
pack-objects prepares the pack. Normally it would output progress information, but if
--quiet was used for the fetch, pack-objects will output nothing at all until the pack
data begins. Some clients and networks may consider the server to be hung and give up.
Setting this option instructs upload-pack to send an empty keepalive packet every
uploadpack.keepalive seconds. Setting this option to 0 disables keepalive packets
entirely. The default is 5 seconds.
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 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 git-commit-tree(1).
user.signingkey
If git-tag(1) or git-commit(1) is not selecting the key you want it to automatically
when creating a signed tag or commit, 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 git-
instaweb(1) and git-help(1) may use it.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite