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NAME

       git-config - Get and set repository or global options

SYNOPSIS

       git config [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-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] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
       git config [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
       git config [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] [--name-only] --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>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] [--name-only] -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:

       •   The section or key is invalid (ret=1),

       •   no section or name was provided (ret=2),

       •   the config file is invalid (ret=3),

       •   the config file cannot be written (ret=4),

       •   you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5),

       •   you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), or

       •   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 returns all values for a multi-valued key.

       --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.
           Returns error code 1 if no value is found.

       --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, along with their values.

       --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 a 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
           section.variable ~/ from the command line to let your shell do the expansion).

       --expiry-date
           git config will ensure that the output is converted from a fixed or relative date-string to a
           timestamp. This option has no effect when setting the value.

       -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.

       --name-only
           Output only the names of config variables for --list or --get-regexp.

       --show-origin
           Augment the output of all queried config options with the origin type (file, standard input, blob,
           command line) and the actual origin (config file path, ref, or blob id if applicable).

       --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 off when a specific
           file is given (e.g., using --file, --global, etc) and on when searching all config files.

CONFIGURATION

       pager.config is only respected when listing configuration, i.e., when using --list or any of the --get-*
       which may return multiple results. The default is to use a pager.

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.

       You may override individual configuration parameters when running any git command by using the -c option.
       See git(1) for details.

       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; we say then that the variable is multivalued.

   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 case-insensitive. 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 and the null byte.
       Doublequote " and backslash can be included by escaping them as \" and \\, respectively. Backslashes
       preceding other characters are dropped when reading; for example, \t is read as t and \0 is read as 0
       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 (or just name, which is a short-hand to say that the variable is the
       boolean "true"). The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters and -, and
       must start with an alphabetic character.

       A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by ending it with a \; the backquote and
       the end-of-line are stripped. Leading whitespaces after name =, the remainder of the line after the first
       comment character # or ;, and trailing whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in
       double quotes. Internal whitespaces within the value are retained verbatim.

       Inside double quotes, double quote " and backslash \ characters 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). Other char escape sequences (including octal
       escape sequences) are invalid.

   Includes
       The include and includeIf sections allow you to include config directives from another source. These
       sections behave identically to each other with the exception that includeIf sections may be ignored if
       their condition does not evaluate to true; see "Conditional includes" below.

       You can include a config file from another by setting the special include.path (or includeIf.*.path)
       variable to the name of the file to be included. The variable takes a pathname as its value, and is
       subject to tilde expansion. These variables can be given multiple times.

       The contents of the included file are inserted immediately, as if they had been found at the location of
       the include directive. If the value of the variable is a relative path, the path is considered to be
       relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was found. See below for examples.

   Conditional includes
       You can include a config file from another conditionally by setting a includeIf.<condition>.path variable
       to the name of the file to be included.

       The condition starts with a keyword followed by a colon and some data whose format and meaning depends on
       the keyword. Supported keywords are:

       gitdir
           The data that follows the keyword gitdir: is used as a glob pattern. If the location of the .git
           directory matches the pattern, the include condition is met.

           The .git location may be auto-discovered, or come from $GIT_DIR environment variable. If the
           repository is auto discovered via a .git file (e.g. from submodules, or a linked worktree), the .git
           location would be the final location where the .git directory is, not where the .git file is.

           The pattern can contain standard globbing wildcards and two additional ones, **/ and /**, that can
           match multiple path components. Please refer to gitignore(5) for details. For convenience:

           •   If the pattern starts with ~/, ~ will be substituted with the content of the environment variable
               HOME.

           •   If the pattern starts with ./, it is replaced with the directory containing the current config
               file.

           •   If the pattern does not start with either ~/, ./ or /, **/ will be automatically prepended. For
               example, the pattern foo/bar becomes **/foo/bar and would match /any/path/to/foo/bar.

           •   If the pattern ends with /, ** will be automatically added. For example, the pattern foo/ becomes
               foo/**. In other words, it matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively.

       gitdir/i
           This is the same as gitdir except that matching is done case-insensitively (e.g. on case-insensitive
           file sytems)

       A few more notes on matching via gitdir and gitdir/i:

       •   Symlinks in $GIT_DIR are not resolved before matching.

       •   Both the symlink & realpath versions of paths will be matched outside of $GIT_DIR. E.g. if ~/git is a
           symlink to /mnt/storage/git, both gitdir:~/git and gitdir:/mnt/storage/git will match.

           This was not the case in the initial release of this feature in v2.13.0, which only matched the
           realpath version. Configuration that wants to be compatible with the initial release of this feature
           needs to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions.

       •   Note that "../" is not special and will match literally, which is unlikely what you want.

   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.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file
                   path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory

           ; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git
           [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"]
                   path = /path/to/foo.inc

           ; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group
           [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
                   path = /path/to/foo.inc

           ; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group
           [includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"]
                   path = /path/to/foo.inc

           ; relative paths are always relative to the including
           ; file (if the condition is true); their location is not
           ; affected by the condition
           [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
                   path = foo.inc

   Values
       Values of many variables are treated as a simple string, but there are variables that take values of
       specific types and there are rules as to how to spell them.

       boolean
           When a variable is said to take a boolean value, many synonyms are accepted for true and false; these
           are all case-insensitive.

           true
               Boolean true literals are yes, on, true, and 1. Also, a variable defined without = <value> is
               taken as true.

           false
               Boolean false literals are no, off, false, 0 and the empty string.

               When converting value to the canonical form using --bool type specifier, git config will ensure
               that the output is "true" or "false" (spelled in lowercase).

       integer
           The value for many variables that specify various sizes can be suffixed with k, M,... to mean "scale
           the number by 1024", "by 1024x1024", etc.

       color
           The value for a variable that takes a color is a list of colors (at most two, one for foreground and
           one for background) and attributes (as many as you want), separated by spaces.

           The basic colors accepted are normal, black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white. The
           first color given is the foreground; the second is the background.

           Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that
           not all terminals may support this). If your terminal supports it, you may also specify 24-bit RGB
           values as hex, like #ff0ab3.

           The accepted attributes are bold, dim, ul, blink, reverse, italic, and strike (for crossed-out or
           "strikethrough" letters). The position of any attributes with respect to the colors (before, after,
           or in between), doesn’t matter. Specific attributes may be turned off by prefixing them with no or
           no- (e.g., noreverse, no-ul, etc).

           An empty color string produces no color effect at all. This can be used to avoid coloring specific
           elements without disabling color entirely.

           For git’s pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item
           in the colored output. So setting color.decorate.branch to black will paint that branch name in a
           plain black, even if the previous thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the
           list of branch names in log --decorate output) is set to be painted with bold or some other
           attribute. However, custom log formats may do more complicated and layered coloring, and the negated
           forms may be useful there.

       pathname
           A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a string that begins with "~/" or "~user/", and
           the usual tilde expansion happens to such a string: ~/ is expanded to the value of $HOME, and ~user/
           to the specified user’s 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.

       Other git-related tools may and do use their own variables. When inventing new variables for use in your
       own tool, make sure their names do not conflict with those that are used by Git itself and other popular
       tools, and describe them in your 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, 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.

           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.

           addEmbeddedRepo
               Advice on what to do when you’ve accidentally added one git repo inside of another.

           ignoredHook
               Advice shown if an hook is ignored because the hook is not set as executable.

           waitingForEditor
               Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for editor input from the user.

       core.fileMode
           Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree is to be honored.

           Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is marked as executable is checked out, or
           checks out a non-executable file with executable bit on.  git-clone(1) or git-init(1) probe the
           filesystem to see if it handles the executable bit correctly and this variable is automatically set
           as necessary.

           A repository, however, may be on a filesystem that handles the filemode correctly, and this variable
           is set to true when created, but later may be made accessible from another environment that loses the
           filemode (e.g. exporting ext4 via CIFS mount, visiting a Cygwin created repository with Git for
           Windows or Eclipse). In such a case it may be necessary to set this variable to false. See git-
           update-index(1).

           The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file).

       core.hideDotFiles
           (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and files whose name starts with a dot as
           hidden. If dotGitOnly, only the .git/ directory is hidden, but no other files starting with a dot.
           The default mode is dotGitOnly.

       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.fsmonitor
           If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which will identify all files that may have
           changed since the requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git by avoiding
           unnecessary processing of files that have not changed. See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of
           githooks(5).

       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.splitIndex
           If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used. See git-update-index(1). False by
           default.

       core.untrackedCache
           Determines what to do about the untracked cache feature of the index. It will be kept, if this
           variable is unset or set to keep. It will automatically be added if set to true. And it will
           automatically be removed, if set to false. Before setting it to true, you should check that mtime is
           working properly on your system. See git-update-index(1).  keep 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
           Commands that output paths (e.g.  ls-files, diff), will quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by
           enclosing the pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with backslashes in the same
           way C escapes control characters (e.g.  \t for TAB, \n for LF, \\ for backslash) or bytes with values
           larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal \302\265 for "micro" in UTF-8). If this variable is set to false, bytes
           higher than 0x80 are not considered "unusual" any more. Double-quotes, backslash and control
           characters are always escaped regardless of the setting of this variable. A simple space character is
           not considered "unusual". Many commands can output pathnames completely verbatim using the -z option.
           The default value is true.

       core.eol
           Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for files that have the text property set
           when core.autocrlf is false. 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 the same as setting the text attribute to "auto" on all files and
           core.eol to "crlf". Set to true if you want to have CRLF line endings in your working directory and
           the repository has LF 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.sshCommand
           If this variable is set, git fetch and git push will use the specified command instead of ssh when
           they need to connect to a remote system. The command is in the same form as the GIT_SSH_COMMAND
           environment variable and is overridden when the environment variable is set.

       core.ignoreStat
           If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have changed by setting the
           "assume-unchanged" bit for those tracked files which it has updated identically in both the index and
           working tree.

           When files are modified outside of Git, the user will need to stage the modified files explicitly
           (e.g. see Examples section in git-update-index(1)). Git will not normally detect changes to those
           files.

           This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow, such as CIFS/Microsoft Windows.

           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. If GIT_COMMON_DIR environment variable is set,
           core.worktree is ignored and not used for determining the root of 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. If it is set to always, then a missing reflog is
           automatically created for any ref under refs/.

           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 32 TiB (effectively unlimited) 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 96 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. Additionally files larger than this size are always treated as binary.

           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
           Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to describe paths that are not meant to be
           tracked, in addition to .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude. Defaults to
           $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.hooksPath
           By default Git will look for your hooks in the $GIT_DIR/hooks directory. Set this to different path,
           e.g.  /etc/git/hooks, and Git will try to find your hooks in that directory, e.g.
           /etc/git/hooks/pre-receive instead of in $GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive.

           The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is taken as relative to the directory
           where the hooks are run (see the "DESCRIPTION" section of githooks(5)).

           This configuration variable is useful in cases where you’d like to centrally configure your Git hooks
           instead of configuring them on a per-repository basis, or as a more flexible and centralized
           alternative to having an init.templateDir where you’ve changed default hooks.

       core.editor
           Commands such as commit and tag that let you edit messages by launching an editor use 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 let you edit messages consider a line that begins with this
           character commented, and removes them after the editor returns (default #).

           If set to "auto", git-commit would select a character that is not the beginning character of any line
           in existing commit messages.

       core.filesRefLockTimeout
           The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to lock an individual reference. Value 0
           means not to retry at all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 100 (i.e., retry for 100ms).

       core.packedRefsTimeout
           The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to lock the packed-refs file. Value 0 means
           not to retry at all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for 1 second).

       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 FRX (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=FRX less -S. The environment does not set the S option but the
           command line does, instructing less to truncate long lines. Similarly, setting core.pager to less -+F
           will deactivate the F option specified by the environment from the command-line, deactivating the
           "quit if one screen" behavior of less. One can specifically activate some flags for particular
           commands: for example, setting pager.blame to less -S enables line truncation only for git blame.

           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. When enabled, Git will do the
           index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing overlapping IO’s. Defaults to true.

       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 or set to "auto", an appropriate value
           is computed based on the approximate number of packed objects in your repository, which hopefully is
           enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time. The minimum length is 4.

       add.ignoreErrors, add.ignore-errors (deprecated)
           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).  add.ignore-errors is deprecated, as it does
           not follow the usual naming convention for configuration variables.

       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. A quote pair or 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).

       am.threeWay
           By default, git am will fail if the patch does not apply cleanly. When set to true, this setting
           tells git am to fall back on 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of blobs it is supposed to
           apply to and we have those blobs available locally (equivalent to giving the --3way option from the
           command line). Defaults to false. See git-am(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).

       blame.showRoot
           Do not treat root commits as boundaries in git-blame(1). This option defaults to false.

       blame.blankBoundary
           Show blank commit object name for boundary commits in git-blame(1). This option defaults to false.

       blame.showEmail
           Show the author email instead of author name in git-blame(1). This option defaults to false.

       blame.date
           Specifies the format used to output dates in git-blame(1). If unset the iso format is used. For
           supported values, see the discussion of the --date option at git-log(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.

           When the value is interactive, the rebase is run in interactive mode.

           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. If
           unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).

       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).

       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. If unset, then the value of color.ui is
           used (auto by default).

           This does not affect git-format-patch(1) or the git-diff-* plumbing commands. Can be overridden on
           the command line with the --color[=<when>] option.

       diff.colorMoved
           If set to either a valid <mode> or a true value, moved lines in a diff are colored differently, for
           details of valid modes see --color-moved in git-diff(1). If simply set to true the default color mode
           will be used. When set to false, moved lines are not colored.

       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 context (context text - plain is a historical synonym), meta
           (metainformation), frag (hunk header), func (function in hunk header), old (removed lines), new
           (added lines), commit (commit headers), whitespace (highlighting whitespace errors), oldMoved
           (deleted lines), newMoved (added lines), oldMovedDimmed, oldMovedAlternative,
           oldMovedAlternativeDimmed, newMovedDimmed, newMovedAlternative and newMovedAlternativeDimmed (See the
           <mode> setting of --color-moved in git-diff(1) for details).

       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. If unset, then the value of color.ui is
           used (auto by default).

       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 (same as setting matchContext and matchSelected)

           matchContext
               matching text in context lines

           matchSelected
               matching text in selected lines

           selected
               non-matching text in selected lines

           separator
               separators between fields on a line (:, -, and =) and between hunks (--)

       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. If unset, then the value of
           color.ui is used (auto by default).

       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.

       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. If
           unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).

       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. If
           unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).

       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), nobranch (the color the no branch warning is shown in, defaulting to red),
           localBranch or remoteBranch (the local and remote branch names, respectively, when branch and
           tracking information is displayed in the status short-format), or unmerged (files which have unmerged
           changes).

       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.gpgSign
           A boolean to specify whether all commits should be GPG signed. Use of this option when doing
           operations such as rebase can result in a large number of commits being signed. It may be convenient
           to use an agent to avoid typing your GPG passphrase several times.

       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 the pathname of a file to use as the template for new commit messages.

       commit.verbose
           A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with git commit. See git-commit(1).

       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. Note that multiple
           helpers may be defined. 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.

       credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP
           Tell git-credential-cache—daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting.

       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.interHunkContext
           Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number of lines, thereby fusing the hunks
           that are close to each other. This value serves as the default for the --inter-hunk-context command
           line 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. See the -O option to git-diff(1) for details. If
           diff.orderFile is a relative pathname, it is treated as relative to the top of the working tree.

       diff.renameLimit
           The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent to the git diff
           option -l.

       diff.renames
           Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false", rename detection is disabled. If set to
           "true", basic rename detection is enabled. If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will detect copies, as
           well. Defaults to true. Note that this affects only git diff Porcelain like git-diff(1) and git-
           log(1), and not lower level commands such as git-diff-files(1).

       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 "short" format just shows the
           names of the commits at the beginning and end of the range. The "log" format lists the commits in the
           range like git-submodule(1) summary does. The "diff" format shows an inline diff of the changed
           contents of the submodule. 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

           •   bc

           •   bc3

           •   codecompare

           •   deltawalker

           •   diffmerge

           •   diffuse

           •   ecmerge

           •   emerge

           •   examdiff

           •   gvimdiff

           •   gvimdiff2

           •   gvimdiff3

           •   kdiff3

           •   kompare

           •   meld

           •   opendiff

           •   p4merge

           •   tkdiff

           •   vimdiff

           •   vimdiff2

           •   vimdiff3

           •   winmerge

           •   xxdiff

       diff.indentHeuristic
           Set this option to true to enable experimental heuristics that shift diff hunk boundaries to make
           patches easier to read.

       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".

       diff.wsErrorHighlight
           Highlight whitespace errors in the context, old or new lines of the diff. Multiple values are
           separated by comma, none resets previous values, default reset the list to new and all is a shorthand
           for old,new,context. The whitespace errors are colored with color.diff.whitespace. The command line
           option --ws-error-highlight=<kind> overrides this setting.

       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.

       fastimport.unpackLimit
           If the number of objects imported by git-fast-import(1) is below this limit, then the objects will be
           unpacked into loose object files. However if the number of imported objects equals or exceeds this
           limit then the pack will be stored as a pack. Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the import
           operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
           transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.

       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 and the PRUNING section of git-fetch(1).

       fetch.pruneTags
           If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* refspec was provided when
           pruning, if not set already. This allows for setting both this option and fetch.prune to maintain a
           1=1 mapping to upstream refs. See also remote.<name>.pruneTags and the PRUNING section of git-
           fetch(1).

       fetch.output
           Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are full and compact. Default value is full.
           See section OUTPUT in git-fetch(1) for detail.

       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.from
           Provides the default value for the --from option to format-patch. Accepts a boolean value, or a name
           and email address. If false, format-patch defaults to --no-from, using commit authors directly in the
           "From:" field of patch mails. If true, format-patch defaults to --from, using your committer identity
           in the "From:" field of patch mails and including a "From:" field in the body of the patch mail if
           different. If set to a non-boolean value, format-patch uses that value instead of your committer
           identity. Defaults to false.

       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.signatureFile
           Works just like format.signature except the contents of the file specified by this variable will be
           used as the signature.

       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.

       format.outputDirectory
           Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the current working directory.

       format.useAutoBase
           A boolean value which lets you enable the --base=auto option of format-patch by default.

       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.

       fsck.<msg-id>
           Allows overriding the message type (error, warn or ignore) of a specific message ID such as
           missingEmail.

           For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid
           author/committer line - missing email" means that setting fsck.missingEmail = ignore will hide that
           issue.

           This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories which cannot be repaired without
           disruptive changes.

       fsck.skipList
           The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a
           non-fatal way and should be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project should be
           accepted despite early commits containing errors that can be safely ignored such as invalid committer
           email addresses. Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.

       gc.aggressiveDepth
           The depth parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by git gc --aggressive. This
           defaults to 50.

       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.autoDetach
           Make git gc --auto return immediately and run in background if the system supports it. Default is
           true.

       gc.logExpiry
           If the file gc.log exists, then git gc --auto won’t run unless that file is more than gc.logExpiry
           old. Default is "1.day". See gc.pruneExpire for more ways to specify its value.

       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, or "never" may be used to suppress pruning. This feature helps
           prevent corruption when git gc runs concurrently with another process writing to the repository; see
           the "NOTES" section of git-gc(1).

       gc.worktreePruneExpire
           When git gc is run, it calls git worktree prune --expire 3.months.ago. This config variable can be
           used to set a different grace period. The value "now" may be used to disable the grace period and
           prune $GIT_DIR/worktrees immediately, or "never" may be used to suppress pruning.

       gc.reflogExpire, gc.<pattern>.reflogExpire
           git reflog expire removes reflog entries older than this time; defaults to 90 days. The value "now"
           expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration altogether. With "<pattern>" (e.g.
           "refs/stash") in the middle the setting applies only to the refs that match the <pattern>.

       gc.reflogExpireUnreachable, gc.<pattern>.reflogExpireUnreachable
           git reflog expire removes reflog entries older than this time and are not reachable from the current
           tip; defaults to 30 days. The value "now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses
           expiration altogether. 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. You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc. 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. You can also use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc. 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.

       grep.threads
           Number of grep worker threads to use. See grep.threads in git-grep(1) for more information.

       grep.fallbackToNoIndex
           If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep is executed outside of a git repository.
           Defaults to false.

       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.displayUntracked
           Determines if git-gui(1) shows untracked files in the file list. The default is "true".

       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)). In addition to the syntax understood by curl, it is possible to
           specify a proxy string with a user name but no password, in which case git will attempt to acquire
           one in the same way it does for other credentials. See gitcredentials(7) for more information. The
           syntax thus is [protocol://][user[:password]@]proxyhost[:port]. This can be overridden on a
           per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy

       http.proxyAuthMethod
           Set the method with which to authenticate against the HTTP proxy. This only takes effect if the
           configured proxy string contains a user name part (i.e. is of the form user@host or user@host:port).
           This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod. Both can be
           overridden by the GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD environment variable. Possible values are:

           •   anyauth - Automatically pick a suitable authentication method. It is assumed that the proxy
               answers an unauthenticated request with a 407 status code and one or more Proxy-authenticate
               headers with supported authentication methods. This is the default.

           •   basic - HTTP Basic authentication

           •   digest - HTTP Digest authentication; this prevents the password from being transmitted to the
               proxy in clear text

           •   negotiate - GSS-Negotiate authentication (compare the --negotiate option of curl(1))

           •   ntlm - NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of curl(1))

       http.emptyAuth
           Attempt authentication without seeking a username or password. This can be used to attempt
           GSS-Negotiate authentication without specifying a username in the URL, as libcurl normally requires a
           username for authentication.

       http.delegation
           Control GSSAPI credential delegation. The delegation is disabled by default in libcurl since version
           7.21.7. Set parameter to tell the server what it is allowed to delegate when it comes to user
           credentials. Used with GSS/kerberos. Possible values are:

           •   none - Don’t allow any delegation.

           •   policy - Delegates if and only if the OK-AS-DELEGATE flag is set in the Kerberos service ticket,
               which is a matter of realm policy.

           •   always - Unconditionally allow the server to delegate.

       http.extraHeader
           Pass an additional HTTP header when communicating with a server. If more than one such entry exists,
           all of them are added as extra headers. To allow overriding the settings inherited from the system
           config, an empty value will reset the extra headers to the empty list.

       http.cookieFile
           The pathname of a 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 used only 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.sslVersion
           The SSL version to use when negotiating an SSL connection, if you want to force the default. The
           available and default version depend on whether libcurl was built against NSS or OpenSSL and the
           particular configuration of the crypto library in use. Internally this sets the CURLOPT_SSL_VERSION
           option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format of this option and for the ssl
           version supported. Actually the possible values of this option are:

           •   sslv2

           •   sslv3

           •   tlsv1

           •   tlsv1.0

           •   tlsv1.1

           •   tlsv1.2

           Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_VERSION environment variable. To force git to use libcurl’s default
           ssl version and ignore any explicit http.sslversion option, set GIT_SSL_VERSION to the empty string.

       http.sslCipherList
           A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection. The available ciphers depend on
           whether libcurl was built against NSS or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto
           library in use. Internally this sets the CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST option; see the libcurl
           documentation for more details on the format of this list.

           Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST environment variable. To force git to use libcurl’s
           default cipher list and ignore any explicit http.sslCipherList option, set GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST to the
           empty string.

       http.sslVerify
           Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Defaults to true. 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.pinnedpubkey
           Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of a PEM or DER encoded public key
           file or a string starting with sha256// followed by the base64 encoded sha256 hash of the public key.
           See also libcurl CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY. git will exit with an error if this option is set but not
           supported by cURL.

       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.followRedirects
           Whether git should follow HTTP redirects. If set to true, git will transparently follow any redirect
           issued by a server it encounters. If set to false, git will treat all redirects as errors. If set to
           initial, git will follow redirects only for the initial request to a remote, but not for subsequent
           follow-up HTTP requests. Since git uses the redirected URL as the base for the follow-up requests,
           this is generally sufficient. The default is initial.

       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 between the
               config key and the URL. It is possible to specify a * as part of the host name to match all
               subdomains at this level.  https://*.example.com/ for example would match
               https://foo.example.com/, but not https://foo.bar.example.com/.

            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.

       ssh.variant
           By default, Git determines the command line arguments to use based on the basename of the configured
           SSH command (configured using the environment variable GIT_SSH or GIT_SSH_COMMAND or the config
           setting core.sshCommand). If the basename is unrecognized, Git will attempt to detect support of
           OpenSSH options by first invoking the configured SSH command with the -G (print configuration) option
           and will subsequently use OpenSSH options (if that is successful) or no options besides the host and
           remote command (if it fails).

           The config variable ssh.variant can be set to override this detection. Valid values are ssh (to use
           OpenSSH options), plink, putty, tortoiseplink, simple (no options except the host and remote
           command). The default auto-detection can be explicitly requested using the value auto. Any other
           value is treated as ssh. This setting can also be overridden via the environment variable
           GIT_SSH_VARIANT.

           The current command-line parameters used for each variant are as follows:

           •   ssh - [-p port] [-4] [-6] [-o option] [username@]host command

           •   simple - [username@]host command

           •   plink or putty - [-P port] [-4] [-6] [username@]host command

           •   tortoiseplink - [-P port] [-4] [-6] -batch [username@]host command

           Except for the simple variant, command-line parameters are likely to change as git gains new
           features.

       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).

       index.version
           Specify the version with which new index files should be initialized. This does not affect existing
           repositories.

       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; requires the Perl module Term::ReadKey.

       interactive.diffFilter
           When an interactive command (such as git add --patch) shows a colorized diff, git will pipe the diff
           through the shell command defined by this configuration variable. The command may mark up the diff
           further for human consumption, provided that it retains a one-to-one correspondence with the lines in
           the original diff. Defaults to disabled (no filtering).

       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. 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. If auto is specified, then if the
           output is going to a terminal, the ref names are shown as if short were given, otherwise no ref names
           are shown. This is the same as the --decorate option of the git log.

       log.follow
           If true, git log will act as if the --follow option was used when a single <path> is given. This has
           the same limitations as --follow, i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work
           well on non-linear history.

       log.graphColors
           A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to draw history lines in git log --graph.

       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.showSignature
           If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and git-whatchanged(1) assume --show-signature.

       log.mailmap
           If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and git-whatchanged(1) assume --use-mailmap.

       mailinfo.scissors
           If true, makes git-mailinfo(1) (and therefore git-am(1)) act by default as if the --scissors option
           was provided on the command-line. When active, this features removes everything from the message body
           before a scissors line (i.e. consisting mainly of ">8", "8<" and "-").

       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.verifySignatures
           If true, this is equivalent to the --verify-signatures command line option. See git-merge(1) for
           details.

       merge.branchdesc
           In addition to branch names, populate the log message with the branch description text associated
           with them. Defaults to false.

       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

           •   bc

           •   bc3

           •   codecompare

           •   deltawalker

           •   diffmerge

           •   diffuse

           •   ecmerge

           •   emerge

           •   examdiff

           •   gvimdiff

           •   gvimdiff2

           •   gvimdiff3

           •   kdiff3

           •   meld

           •   opendiff

           •   p4merge

           •   tkdiff

           •   tortoisemerge

           •   vimdiff

           •   vimdiff2

           •   vimdiff3

           •   winmerge

           •   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.meld.hasOutput
           Older versions of meld do not support the --output option. Git will attempt to detect whether meld
           supports --output by inspecting the output of meld --help. Configuring mergetool.meld.hasOutput will
           make Git skip these checks and use the configured value instead. Setting mergetool.meld.hasOutput to
           true tells Git to unconditionally use the --output option, and false avoids using --output.

       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.writeToTemp
           Git writes temporary BASE, LOCAL, and REMOTE versions of conflicting files in the worktree by
           default. Git will attempt to use a temporary directory for these files when set true. Defaults to
           false.

       mergetool.prompt
           Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.

       notes.mergeStrategy
           Which merge strategy to choose by default when resolving notes conflicts. Must be one of manual,
           ours, theirs, union, or cat_sort_uniq. Defaults to manual. See "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section of
           git-notes(1) for more information on each strategy.

       notes.<name>.mergeStrategy
           Which merge strategy to choose when doing a notes merge into refs/notes/<name>. This overrides the
           more general "notes.mergeStrategy". See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section in git-notes(1) for more
           information on the available strategies.

       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, cat_sort_uniq, 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 maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread in git-pack-objects(1) for pack window
           memory when no limit is given on the command line. The value can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g".
           When left unconfigured (or set explicitly to 0), there will be 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") 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).
           Reaching this limit results in the creation of multiple packfiles; which in turn prevents bitmaps
           from being created. The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited. Common
           unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.

       pack.useBitmaps
           When true, git will use pack bitmaps (if available) when packing to stdout (e.g., during the server
           side of a fetch). Defaults to true. You should not generally need to turn this off unless you are
           debugging pack bitmaps.

       pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated)
           This is a deprecated synonym for repack.writeBitmaps.

       pack.writeBitmapHashCache
           When true, git will include a "hash cache" section in the bitmap index (if one is written). This
           cache can be used to feed git’s delta heuristics, potentially leading to better deltas between
           bitmapped and non-bitmapped objects (e.g., when serving a fetch between an older, bitmapped pack and
           objects that have been pushed since the last gc). The downside is that it consumes 4 bytes per object
           of disk space, and that JGit’s bitmap implementation does not understand it, causing it to complain
           if Git and JGit are used on the same repository. Defaults to false.

       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.

       protocol.allow
           If set, provide a user defined default policy for all protocols which don’t explicitly have a policy
           (protocol.<name>.allow). By default, if unset, known-safe protocols (http, https, git, ssh, file)
           have a default policy of always, known-dangerous protocols (ext) have a default policy of never, and
           all other protocols have a default policy of user. Supported policies:

           •   always - protocol is always able to be used.

           •   never - protocol is never able to be used.

           •   user - protocol is only able to be used when GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER is either unset or has a
               value of 1. This policy should be used when you want a protocol to be directly usable by the user
               but don’t want it used by commands which execute clone/fetch/push commands without user input,
               e.g. recursive submodule initialization.

       protocol.<name>.allow
           Set a policy to be used by protocol <name> with clone/fetch/push commands. See protocol.allow above
           for the available policies.

           The protocol names currently used by git are:

           •   file: any local file-based path (including file:// URLs, or local paths)

           •   git: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP connection (or proxy, if configured)

           •   ssh: git over ssh (including host:path syntax, ssh://, etc).

           •   http: git over http, both "smart http" and "dumb http". Note that this does not include https; if
               you want to configure both, you must do so individually.

           •   any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use hg to allow the git-remote-hg helper)

       protocol.version
           Experimental. If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a server using the specified protocol
           version. If unset, no attempt will be made by the client to communicate using a particular protocol
           version, this results in protocol version 0 being used. Supported versions:

           •   0 - the original wire protocol.

           •   1 - the original wire protocol with the addition of a version string in the initial response from
               the server.

       pull.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). This setting overrides merge.ff
           when pulling.

       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.

           When the value is interactive, the rebase is run in interactive mode.

           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).

           •   tracking - This is a deprecated synonym for upstream.

           •   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 has 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 used to be the default, but not since Git 2.0 (simple is the new default).

       push.followTags
           If set to true enable --follow-tags option by default. You may override this configuration at time of
           push by specifying --no-follow-tags.

       push.gpgSign
           May be set to a boolean value, or the string if-asked. A true value causes all pushes to be GPG
           signed, as if --signed is passed to git-push(1). The string if-asked causes pushes to be signed if
           the server supports it, as if --signed=if-asked is passed to git push. A false value may override a
           value from a lower-priority config file. An explicit command-line flag always overrides this config
           option.

       push.pushOption
           When no --push-option=<option> argument is given from the command line, git push behaves as if each
           <value> of this variable is given as --push-option=<value>.

           This is a multi-valued variable, and an empty value can be used in a higher priority configuration
           file (e.g.  .git/config in a repository) to clear the values inherited from a lower priority
           configuration files (e.g.  $HOME/.gitconfig).

           Example:

           /etc/gitconfig push.pushoption = a push.pushoption = b

           ~/.gitconfig push.pushoption = c

           repo/.git/config push.pushoption = push.pushoption = b

           This will result in only b (a and c are cleared).

       push.recurseSubmodules
           Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed are available on a remote-tracking
           branch. If the value is check then Git will verify that all submodule commits that changed in the
           revisions to be pushed are available on at least one remote of the submodule. If any commits are
           missing, the push will be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If the value is on-demand then all
           submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be pushed. If on-demand was not able to
           push all necessary revisions it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If the value is
           no then default behavior of ignoring submodules when pushing is retained. You may override this
           configuration at time of push by specifying --recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no.

       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 entry 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. This option can be overridden by the --no-autostash and --autostash options of git-
           rebase(1). Defaults to false.

       rebase.missingCommitsCheck
           If set to "warn", git rebase -i will print a warning if some commits are removed (e.g. a line was
           deleted), however the rebase will still proceed. If set to "error", it will print the previous
           warning and stop the rebase, git rebase --edit-todo can then be used to correct the error. If set to
           "ignore", no checking is done. To drop a commit without warning or error, use the drop command in the
           todo list. Defaults to "ignore".

       rebase.instructionFormat
           A format string, as specified in git-log(1), to be used for the todo list during an interactive
           rebase. The format will automatically have the long commit hash prepended to the format.

       rebase.abbreviateCommands
           If set to true, git rebase will use abbreviated command names in the todo list resulting in something
           like this:

                       p deadbee The oneline of the commit
                       p fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
                       ...

           instead of:

                       pick deadbee The oneline of the commit
                       pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
                       ...

           Defaults to false.

       receive.advertiseAtomic
           By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push capability to its clients. If you don’t
           want to advertise this capability, set this variable to false.

       receive.advertisePushOptions
           When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options capability to its clients. False
           by default.

       receive.autogc
           By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after receiving data from git-push and updating
           refs. You can stop it by setting this variable to false.

       receive.certNonceSeed
           By setting this variable to a string, git receive-pack will accept a git push --signed and verifies
           it by using a "nonce" protected by HMAC using this string as a secret key.

       receive.certNonceSlop
           When a git push --signed sent a push certificate with a "nonce" that was issued by a receive-pack
           serving the same repository within this many seconds, export the "nonce" found in the certificate to
           GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE to the hooks (instead of what the receive-pack asked the sending side to
           include). This may allow writing checks in pre-receive and post-receive a bit easier. Instead of
           checking GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP environment variable that records by how many seconds the nonce is
           stale to decide if they want to accept the certificate, they only can check
           GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS is OK.

       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.fsck.<msg-id>
           When receive.fsckObjects is set to true, errors can be switched to warnings and vice versa by
           configuring the receive.fsck.<msg-id> setting where the <msg-id> is the fsck message ID and the value
           is one of error, warn or ignore. For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message
           ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing email" means that setting
           receive.fsck.missingEmail = ignore will hide that issue.

           This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories which would not pass pushing
           when receive.fsckObjects = true, allowing the host to accept repositories with certain known issues
           but still catch other issues.

       receive.fsck.skipList
           The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a
           non-fatal way and should be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project should be
           accepted despite early commits containing errors that can be safely ignored such as invalid committer
           email addresses. Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.

       receive.keepAlive
           After receiving the pack from the client, receive-pack may produce no output (if --quiet was
           specified) while processing the pack, causing some networks to drop the TCP connection. With this
           option set, if receive-pack does not transmit any data in this phase for receive.keepAlive seconds,
           it will send a short keepalive packet. The default is 5 seconds; set to 0 to disable keepalives
           entirely.

       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.maxInputSize
           If the size of the incoming pack stream is larger than this limit, then git-receive-pack will error
           out, instead of accepting the pack file. If not set or set to 0, then the size is unlimited.

       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".

           Another option is "updateInstead" which will update the working tree if pushing into the current
           branch. This option is intended for synchronizing working directories when one side is not easily
           accessible via interactive ssh (e.g. a live web site, hence the requirement that the working
           directory be clean). This mode also comes in handy when developing inside a VM to test and fix code
           on different Operating Systems.

           By default, "updateInstead" will refuse the push if the working tree or the index have any difference
           from the HEAD, but the push-to-checkout hook can be used to customize this. See githooks(5).

       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
           This variable is the same as transfer.hideRefs, but applies only to receive-pack (and so affects
           pushes, but not fetches). 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>.proxyAuthMethod
           For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the method to use for authenticating against the
           proxy in use (probably set in remote.<name>.proxy). See http.proxyAuthMethod.

       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.

       remote.<name>.pruneTags
           When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also remove any local tags that no longer
           exist on the remote if pruning is activated in general via remote.<name>.prune, fetch.prune or
           --prune. Overrides fetch.pruneTags settings, if any.

           See also remote.<name>.prune and the PRUNING section of git-fetch(1).

       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.

       repack.packKeptObjects
           If set to true, makes git repack act as if --pack-kept-objects was passed. See git-repack(1) for
           details. Defaults to false normally, but true if a bitmap index is being written (either via
           --write-bitmap-index or repack.writeBitmaps).

       repack.writeBitmaps
           When true, git will write a bitmap index when packing all objects to disk (e.g., when git repack -a
           is run). This index can speed up the "counting objects" phase of subsequent packs created for clones
           and fetches, at the cost of some disk space and extra time spent on the initial repack. This has no
           effect if multiple packfiles are created. Defaults to false.

       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)
           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 this identity is selected, through either the 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.tocmd, sendemail.smtpDomain, sendemail.smtpServer,
       sendemail.smtpServerPort, sendemail.smtpServerOption, sendemail.smtpUser, sendemail.thread,
       sendemail.transferEncoding, sendemail.validate, sendemail.xmailer
           See git-send-email(1) for description.

       sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)
           Deprecated alias for sendemail.signedoffbycc.

       sendemail.smtpBatchSize
           Number of messages to be sent per connection, after that a relogin will happen. If the value is 0 or
           undefined, send all messages in one connection. See also the --batch-size option of git-send-
           email(1).

       sendemail.smtpReloginDelay
           Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server. See also the --relogin-delay option of git-send-
           email(1).

       showbranch.default
           The default set of branches for git-show-branch(1). See git-show-branch(1).

       splitIndex.maxPercentChange
           When the split index feature is used, this specifies the percent of entries the split index can
           contain compared to the total number of entries in both the split index and the shared index before a
           new shared index is written. The value should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0 then a new
           shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new shared index is never written. By default the
           value is 20, so a new shared index is written if the number of entries in the split index would be
           greater than 20 percent of the total number of entries. See git-update-index(1).

       splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire
           When the split index feature is used, shared index files that were not modified since the time this
           variable specifies will be removed when a new shared index file is created. The value "now" expires
           all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration altogether. The default value is
           "2.weeks.ago". Note that a shared index file is considered modified (for the purpose of expiration)
           each time a new split-index file is either created based on it or read from it. See git-update-
           index(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.showStash
           If set to true, git-status(1) will display the number of entries currently stashed away. 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 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. The only exception to that rule is that status
           and commit will show staged submodule changes. 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.

       stash.showPatch
           If this is set to true, the git stash show command without an option will show the stash entry in
           patch form. Defaults to false. See description of show command in git-stash(1).

       stash.showStat
           If this is set to true, the git stash show command without an option will show diffstat of the stash
           entry. Defaults to true. See description of show command in git-stash(1).

       submodule.<name>.url
           The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules file to the git config via git
           submodule init. The user can change the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via git
           submodule update. If neither submodule.<name>.active or submodule.active are set, the presence of
           this variable is used as a fallback to indicate whether the submodule is of interest to git commands.
           See git-submodule(1) and gitmodules(5) for details.

       submodule.<name>.update
           The method by which a submodule is updated by git submodule update, which is the only affected
           command, others such as git checkout --recurse-submodules are unaffected. It exists for historical
           reasons, when git submodule was the only command to interact with submodules; settings like
           submodule.active and pull.rebase are more specific. It is populated by git submodule init from the
           gitmodules(5) file. See description of update command in git-submodule(1).

       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 (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of
           status and commit when it has been staged), "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.

       submodule.<name>.active
           Boolean value indicating if the submodule is of interest to git commands. This config option takes
           precedence over the submodule.active config option.

       submodule.active
           A repeated field which contains a pathspec used to match against a submodule’s path to determine if
           the submodule is of interest to git commands.

       submodule.recurse
           Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This applies to all commands that have a
           --recurse-submodules option, except clone. Defaults to false.

       submodule.fetchJobs
           Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time. A positive integer allows up to
           that number of submodules fetched in parallel. A value of 0 will give some reasonable default. If
           unset, it defaults to 1.

       submodule.alternateLocation
           Specifies how the submodules obtain alternates when submodules are cloned. Possible values are no,
           superproject. By default no is assumed, which doesn’t add references. When the value is set to
           superproject the submodule to be cloned computes its alternates location relative to the
           superprojects alternate.

       submodule.alternateErrorStrategy
           Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule as computed via
           submodule.alternateLocation. Possible values are ignore, info, die. Default is die.

       tag.forceSignAnnotated
           A boolean to specify whether annotated tags created should be GPG signed. If --annotate is specified
           on the command line, it takes precedence over this option.

       tag.sort
           This variable controls the sort ordering of tags when displayed by git-tag(1). Without the
           "--sort=<value>" option provided, the value of this variable will be used as the default.

       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
           String(s) receive-pack and upload-pack use to decide which refs to omit from their initial
           advertisements. Use more than one definition to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that is under
           the hierarchies listed in the value of this variable is excluded, and is hidden when responding to
           git push or git fetch. See receive.hideRefs and uploadpack.hideRefs for program-specific versions of
           this config.

           You may also include a !  in front of the ref name to negate the entry, explicitly exposing it, even
           if an earlier entry marked it as hidden. If you have multiple hideRefs values, later entries override
           earlier ones (and entries in more-specific config files override less-specific ones).

           If a namespace is in use, the namespace prefix is stripped from each reference before it is matched
           against transfer.hiderefs patterns. For example, if refs/heads/master is specified in
           transfer.hideRefs and the current namespace is foo, then refs/namespaces/foo/refs/heads/master is
           omitted from the advertisements but refs/heads/master and refs/namespaces/bar/refs/heads/master are
           still advertised as so-called "have" lines. In order to match refs before stripping, add a ^ in front
           of the ref name. If you combine !  and ^, !  must be specified first.

           Even if you hide refs, a client may still be able to steal the target objects via the techniques
           described in the "SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it’s best to keep private data
           in a separate repository.

       transfer.unpackLimit
           When fetch.unpackLimit or receive.unpackLimit are not set, the value of this variable is used
           instead. The default value is 100.

       uploadarchive.allowUnreachable
           If true, allow clients to use git archive --remote to request any tree, whether reachable from the
           ref tips or not. See the discussion in the "SECURITY" section of git-upload-archive(1) for more
           details. Defaults to false.

       uploadpack.hideRefs
           This variable is the same as transfer.hideRefs, but applies only to upload-pack (and so affects only
           fetches, not pushes). 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. Even if this is false, a client may be able to steal objects via the techniques
           described in the "SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it’s best to keep private data
           in a separate repository.

       uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant
           Allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request that asks for an object that is reachable from any ref
           tip. However, note that calculating object reachability is computationally expensive. Defaults to
           false. Even if this is false, a client may be able to steal objects via the techniques described in
           the "SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it’s best to keep private data in a separate
           repository.

       uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant
           Allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request that asks for any object at all. Defaults to false.

       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.

       uploadpack.packObjectsHook
           If this option is set, when upload-pack would run git pack-objects to create a packfile for a client,
           it will run this shell command instead. The pack-objects command and arguments it would have run
           (including the git pack-objects at the beginning) are appended to the shell command. The stdin and
           stdout of the hook are treated as if pack-objects itself was run. I.e., upload-pack will feed input
           intended for pack-objects to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on stdout.

       uploadpack.allowFilter
           If this option is set, upload-pack will support partial clone and partial fetch object filtering.

           Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the repository-level config (this
           is a safety measure against fetching from untrusted repositories).

       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.

           Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the rewritten URL. If the rewrite changes the
           URL to use a custom protocol or remote helper, you may need to adjust the protocol.*.allow config to
           permit the request. In particular, protocols you expect to use for submodules must be set to always
           rather than the default of user. See the description of protocol.allow above.

       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.useConfigOnly
           Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for user.email and user.name, and instead retrieve the
           values only from the configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses and would like
           to use a different one for each repository, then with this configuration option set to true in the
           global config along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before making new commits in
           a newly cloned repository. Defaults to false.

       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.

       versionsort.prereleaseSuffix (deprecated)
           Deprecated alias for versionsort.suffix. Ignored if versionsort.suffix is set.

       versionsort.suffix
           Even when version sort is used in git-tag(1), tagnames with the same base version but different
           suffixes are still sorted lexicographically, resulting e.g. in prerelease tags appearing after the
           main release (e.g. "1.0-rc1" after "1.0"). This variable can be specified to determine the sorting
           order of tags with different suffixes.

           By specifying a single suffix in this variable, any tagname containing that suffix will appear before
           the corresponding main release. E.g. if the variable is set to "-rc", then all "1.0-rcX" tags will
           appear before "1.0". If specified multiple times, once per suffix, then the order of suffixes in the
           configuration will determine the sorting order of tagnames with those suffixes. E.g. if "-pre"
           appears before "-rc" in the configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be listed before any
           "1.0-rcX" tags. The placement of the main release tag relative to tags with various suffixes can be
           determined by specifying the empty suffix among those other suffixes. E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "",
           "-ck" and "-bfs" appear in the configuration in this order, then all "v4.8-rcX" tags are listed
           first, followed by "v4.8", then "v4.8-ckX" and finally "v4.8-bfsX".

           If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will be sorted according to the
           suffix which starts at the earliest position in the tagname. If more than one different matching
           suffixes start at that earliest position, then that tagname will be sorted according to the longest
           of those suffixes. The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined if they are in multiple
           config files.

       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.

       worktree.guessRemote
           With add, if no branch argument, and neither of -b nor -B nor --detach are given, the command
           defaults to creating a new branch from HEAD. If worktree.guessRemote is set to true, worktree add
           tries to find a remote-tracking branch whose name uniquely matches the new branch name. If such a
           branch exists, it is checked out and set as "upstream" for the new branch. If no such match can be
           found, it falls back to creating a new branch from the current HEAD.

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