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NAME
git-config - Get and set repository or global options
SYNOPSIS
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
git config [<file-option>] [type] --add name value
git config [<file-option>] [type] --replace-all name value [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] [--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>] [-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:
1. The config file is invalid (ret=3),
2. can not write to the config file (ret=4),
3. no section or name was provided (ret=2),
4. the section or key is invalid (ret=1),
5. you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5),
6. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), or
7. you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6).
On success, the command returns the exit code 0.
OPTIONS
--replace-all
Default behavior is to replace at most one line. This replaces all lines matching the key (and
optionally the value_regex).
--add
Adds a new line to the option without altering any existing values. This is the same as providing ^$
as the value_regex in --replace-all.
--get
Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex matching the value). Returns error code
1 if the key was not found and the last value if multiple key values were found.
--get-all
Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key is not exactly one.
--get-regexp
Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression and writes out the key names. Regular
expression matching is currently case-sensitive and done against a canonicalized version of the key
in which section and variable names are lowercased, but subsection names are not.
--get-urlmatch name URL
When given a two-part name section.key, the value for section.<url>.key whose <url> part matches the
best to the given URL is returned (if no such key exists, the value for section.key is used as a
fallback). When given just the section as name, do so for all the keys in the section and list them.
--global
For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than the repository .git/config, write
to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if this file exists and the ~/.gitconfig file doesn’t.
For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig and from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config rather
than from all available files.
See also the section called “FILES”.
--system
For writing options: write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than the repository
.git/config.
For reading options: read only from system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than from all
available files.
See also the section called “FILES”.
--local
For writing options: write to the repository .git/config file. This is the default behavior.
For reading options: read only from the repository .git/config rather than from all available files.
See also the section called “FILES”.
-f config-file, --file config-file
Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG.
--blob blob
Similar to --file but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g. you can use master:.gitmodules to
read values from the file .gitmodules in the master branch. See "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in
gitrevisions(7) for a more complete list of ways to spell blob names.
--remove-section
Remove the given section from the configuration file.
--rename-section
Rename the given section to a new name.
--unset
Remove the line matching the key from config file.
--unset-all
Remove all lines matching the key from config file.
-l, --list
List all variables set in config file, 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 leading ~ to the value of $HOME, and ~user to the home directory for the
specified user. This option has no effect when setting the value (but you can use git config bla ~/
from the command line to let your shell do the expansion).
-z, --null
For all options that output values and/or keys, always end values with the null character (instead of
a newline). Use newline instead as a delimiter between key and value. This allows for secure parsing
of the output without getting confused e.g. by values that contain line breaks.
--name-only
Output only the names of config variables for --list or --get-regexp.
--get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
Find the color setting for name (e.g. color.diff) and output "true" or "false". stdout-is-tty
should be either "true" or "false", and is taken into account when configuration says "auto". If
stdout-is-tty is missing, then checks the standard output of the command itself, and exits with
status 0 if color is to be used, or exits with status 1 otherwise. When the color setting for name is
undefined, the command uses color.ui as fallback.
--get-color name [default]
Find the color configured for name (e.g. color.diff.new) and output it as the ANSI color escape
sequence to the standard output. The optional default parameter is used instead, if there is no color
configured for name.
-e, --edit
Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either --system, --global, or repository
(default).
--[no-]includes
Respect include.* directives in config files when looking up values. Defaults to on.
FILES
If not set explicitly with --file, there are four files where git config will search for configuration
options:
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
System-wide configuration file.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set or empty,
$HOME/.config/git/config will be used. Any single-valued variable set in this file will be
overwritten by whatever is in ~/.gitconfig. It is a good idea not to create this file if you
sometimes use older versions of Git, as support for this file was added fairly recently.
~/.gitconfig
User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" configuration file.
$GIT_DIR/config
Repository specific configuration file.
If no further options are given, all reading options will read all of these files that are available. If
the global or the system-wide configuration file are not available they will be ignored. If the
repository configuration file is not available or readable, git config will exit with a non-zero error
code. However, in neither case will an error message be issued.
The files are read in the order given above, with last value found taking precedence over values read
earlier. When multiple values are taken then all values of a key from all files will be used.
All writing options will per default write to the repository specific configuration file. Note that this
also affects options like --replace-all and --unset. git config will only ever change one file at a time.
You can override these rules either by command-line options or by environment variables. The --global and
the --system options will limit the file used to the global or system-wide file respectively. The
GIT_CONFIG environment variable has a similar effect, but you can specify any filename you want.
ENVIRONMENT
GIT_CONFIG
Take the configuration from the given file instead of .git/config. Using the "--global" option forces
this to ~/.gitconfig. Using the "--system" option forces this to $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.
GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig file. See git(1) for
details.
See also the section called “FILES”.
EXAMPLES
Given a .git/config like this:
#
# This is the config file, and
# a '#' or ';' character indicates
# a comment
#
; core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
; Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
; Proxy settings
[core]
gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org
gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
; HTTP
[http]
sslVerify
[http "https://weak.example.com"]
sslVerify = false
cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
you can set the filemode to true with
% git config core.filemode true
The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern what URL they apply to. Here is
how to change the entry for kernel.org to "ssh".
% git config core.gitproxy '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$'
This makes sure that only the key/value pair for kernel.org is replaced.
To delete the entry for renames, do
% git config --unset diff.renames
If you want to delete an entry for a multivar (like core.gitproxy above), you have to provide a regex
matching the value of exactly one line.
To query the value for a given key, do
% git config --get core.filemode
or
% git config core.filemode
or, to query a multivar:
% git config --get core.gitproxy "for kernel.org$"
If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do:
% git config --get-all core.gitproxy
If you like to live dangerously, you can replace all core.gitproxy by a new one with
% git config --replace-all core.gitproxy ssh
However, if you really only want to replace the line for the default proxy, i.e. the one without a "for
..." postfix, do something like this:
% git config core.gitproxy ssh '! for '
To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to
% git config section.key value '[!]'
To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use
% git config --add core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'
An example to use customized color from the configuration in your script:
#!/bin/sh
WS=$(git config --get-color color.diff.whitespace "blue reverse")
RESET=$(git config --get-color "" "reset")
echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}"
For URLs in https://weak.example.com, http.sslVerify is set to false, while it is set to true for all
others:
% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com
true
% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com
false
% git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
http.cookieFile /tmp/cookie.txt
http.sslverify false
CONFIGURATION FILE
The Git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the Git commands' behavior. The
.git/config file in each repository is used to store the configuration for that repository, and
$HOME/.gitconfig is used to store a per-user configuration as fallback values for the .git/config file.
The file /etc/gitconfig can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.
The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are
divided into sections, wherein the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last
dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last dot. The variable names are
case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters and -, and must start with an alphabetic character.
Some variables may appear multiple times; 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 (doublequote " and
backslash can be included by escaping them as \" and \\, respectively). Section headers cannot span
multiple lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. You can have
[section] if you have [section "subsection"], but you don’t need to.
There is also a deprecated [section.subsection] syntax. With this syntax, the subsection name is
converted to lower-case and is also compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same
restrictions as section names.
All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section header) are recognized as setting
variables, in the form name = value (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
You can include one config file from another by setting the special include.path variable to the name of
the file to be included. The included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been found at
the location of the include directive. If the value of the include.path variable is a relative path, the
path is considered to be relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was found. The
value of include.path is subject to tilde expansion: ~/ is expanded to the value of $HOME, and ~user/ to
the specified user’s home directory. See below for examples.
Example
# Core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
# Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
[branch "devel"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/devel
# Proxy settings
[core]
gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
[include]
path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file
path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your $HOME directory
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 can be spelled as yes, on, true, or 1. Also, a variable defined without = <value> is
taken as true.
false
Boolean false can be spelled as no, off, false, or 0.
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 variables that takes a color is a list of colors (at most two) and attributes (at
most one), separated by spaces. The colors accepted are normal, black, red, green, yellow, blue,
magenta, cyan and white; the attributes are bold, dim, ul, blink and reverse. The first color given
is the foreground; the second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any, doesn’t
matter. Attributes may be turned off specifically by prefixing them with no (e.g., noreverse, noul,
etc).
Colors (foreground and background) 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 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.
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.
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 an 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.ignoreCase
If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable Git to work better on filesystems that are
not case sensitive, like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds "makefile" when Git expects
"Makefile", Git will assume it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as "Makefile".
The default is false, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.ignoreCase true if
appropriate when the repository is created.
core.precomposeUnicode
This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git. When core.precomposeUnicode=true, Git
reverts the unicode decomposition of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a
repository between Mac OS and Linux or Windows. (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git
under cygwin 1.7). When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, which is backward
compatible with older versions of Git.
core.protectHFS
If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would be considered equivalent to .git on an HFS+
filesystem. Defaults to true on Mac OS, and false elsewhere.
core.protectNTFS
If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would cause problems with the NTFS filesystem,
e.g. conflict with 8.3 "short" names. Defaults to true on Windows, and false elsewhere.
core.trustctime
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful when the
inode change time is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system crawlers and some
backup systems). See git-update-index(1). True by default.
core.checkStat
Determines which stat fields to match between the index and work tree. The user can set this to
default or minimal. Default (or explicitly default), is to check all fields, including the sub-second
part of mtime and ctime.
core.quotePath
The commands that output paths (e.g. ls-files, diff), when not given the -z option, will quote
"unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the pathname in a double-quote pair and with
backslashes the same way strings in C source code are quoted. If this variable is set to false, the
bytes higher than 0x80 are not quoted but output as verbatim. Note that double quote, backslash and
control characters are always quoted without -z regardless of the setting of this variable.
core.eol
Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for files that have the text property set.
Alternatives are lf, crlf and native, which uses the platform’s native line ending. The default value
is native. See gitattributes(5) for more information on end-of-line conversion.
core.safecrlf
If true, makes Git check if converting CRLF is reversible when end-of-line conversion is active. Git
will verify if a command modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly. For example,
committing a file followed by checking out the same file should yield the original file in the work
tree. If this is not the case for the current setting of core.autocrlf, Git will reject the file. The
variable can be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an irreversible conversion but
continue the operation.
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF
to LF during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF
before the commit cannot be recreated by Git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it
corrects line endings such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. But for binary files
that are accidentally classified as text the conversion can corrupt data.
If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by setting the conversion type
explicitly in .gitattributes. Right after committing you still have the original file in your work
tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell Git that this file is binary and Git
will handle the file appropriately.
Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with mixed line endings and the undesired
effect of corrupting binary files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed in an
irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing to do because CRLFs are line endings, while
for binary files converting CRLFs corrupts data.
Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a file identical to the original
file for a different setting of core.eol and core.autocrlf, but only for the current one. For
example, a text file with LF would be accepted with core.eol=lf and could later be checked out with
core.eol=crlf, in which case the resulting file would contain CRLF, although the original file
contained LF. However, in both work trees the line endings would be consistent, that is either all LF
or all CRLF, but never mixed. A file with mixed line endings would be reported by the core.safecrlf
mechanism.
core.autocrlf
Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting the text attribute to "auto" on all
files except that text files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain CRLF in the
repository will not be touched. Use this setting if you want to have CRLF line endings in your
working directory even though the repository does not have normalized line endings. This variable can
be set to input, in which case no output conversion is performed.
core.symlinks
If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that contain the link text. git-
update-index(1) and git-add(1) will not change the recorded type to regular file. Useful on
filesystems like FAT that do not support symbolic links.
The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.symlinks false if
appropriate when the repository is created.
core.gitProxy
A "proxy command" to execute (as command host port) instead of establishing direct connection to the
remote server when using the Git protocol for fetching. If the variable value is in the "COMMAND for
DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only on hostnames ending with the specified domain string.
This variable may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order; the first match wins.
Can be overridden by the GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment variable (which always applies universally,
without the special "for" handling).
The special string none can be used as the proxy command to specify that no proxy be used for a given
domain pattern. This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from proxy use, while
defaulting to a common proxy for external domains.
core.ignoreStat
If true, 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.
This information can be used to determine what commit was the tip of a branch "2 days ago".
This value is true by default in a repository that has a working directory associated with it, and
false by default in a bare repository.
core.repositoryFormatVersion
Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout version.
core.sharedRepository
When group (or true), the repository is made shareable between several users in a group (making sure
all the files and objects are group-writable). When all (or world or everybody), the repository will
be readable by all users, additionally to being group-shareable. When umask (or false), Git will use
permissions reported by umask(2). When 0xxx, where 0xxx is an octal number, files in the repository
will have this mode value. 0xxx will override user’s umask value (whereas the other options will
only override requested parts of the user’s umask value). Examples: 0660 will make the repo
read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to others (equivalent to group unless umask
is e.g. 0022). 0640 is a repository that is group-readable but not group-writable. See git-init(1).
False by default.
core.warnAmbiguousRefs
If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs
in the repository. True by default.
core.compression
An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If set, this provides a
default to other compression variables, such as core.looseCompression and pack.compression.
core.looseCompression
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that are not in a pack file. -1 is the
zlib default. 0 means no compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If
not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is not set, defaults to 1 (best speed).
core.packedGitWindowSize
Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a single mapping operation. Larger window sizes
may allow your system to process a smaller number of large pack files more quickly. Smaller window
sizes will negatively affect performance due to increased calls to the operating system’s memory
manager, but may improve performance when accessing a large number of large pack files.
Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB
on 64 bit platforms. This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do not
need to adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.packedGitLimit
Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory from pack files. If Git needs to access
more than this many bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing regions to reclaim
virtual address space within the process.
Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should be reasonable for
all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this
value.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.deltaBaseCacheLimit
Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects that may be referenced by multiple
deltified objects. By storing the entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able to avoid
unpacking and decompressing frequently used base objects multiple times.
Default is 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
In addition to .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude, Git looks into this file for
patterns of files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" is expanded to the value of $HOME and
"~user/" to the specified user’s home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. See
gitignore(5).
core.askPass
Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask for a password can be told to use
an external program given via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the GIT_ASKPASS
environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the SSH_ASKPASS environment variable or,
failing that, a simple password prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
core.attributesFile
In addition to .gitattributes (per-directory) and .git/info/attributes, Git looks into this file for
attributes (see gitattributes(5)). Path expansions are made the same way as for core.excludesFile.
Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty,
$HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
core.editor
Commands such as commit and tag that lets you edit messages by launching an editor uses the value of
this variable when it is set, and the environment variable GIT_EDITOR is not set. See git-var(1).
core.commentChar
Commands such as commit and tag that lets you edit messages consider a line that begins with this
character commented, and removes them after the editor returns (default #).
If set to "auto", git-commit would select a character that is not the beginning character of any line
in existing commit messages.
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, many commands abbreviate to 7
hexdigits, which may not be enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long
time.
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).
branch.autoSetupMerge
Tells git branch and git checkout to set up new branches so that git-pull(1) will appropriately merge
from the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this behavior can be chosen
per-branch using the --track and --no-track options. The valid settings are: false — no automatic
setup is done; true — automatic setup is done when the starting point is a remote-tracking branch;
always — automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote-tracking
branch. This option defaults to true.
branch.autoSetupRebase
When a new branch is created with git branch or git checkout that tracks another branch, this
variable tells Git to set up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase"). When
never, rebase is never automatically set to true. When local, rebase is set to true for tracked
branches of other local branches. When remote, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of
remote-tracking branches. When always, rebase will be set to true for all tracking branches. See
"branch.autoSetupMerge" for details on how to set up a branch to track another branch. This option
defaults to never.
branch.<name>.remote
When on branch <name>, it tells git fetch and git push which remote to fetch from/push to. The remote
to push to may be overridden with remote.pushDefault (for all branches). The remote to push to, for
the current branch, may be further overridden by branch.<name>.pushRemote. If no remote is
configured, or if you are not on any branch, it defaults to origin for fetching and
remote.pushDefault for pushing. Additionally, . (a period) is the current local repository (a
dot-repository), see branch.<name>.merge's final note below.
branch.<name>.pushRemote
When on branch <name>, it overrides branch.<name>.remote for pushing. It also overrides
remote.pushDefault for pushing from branch <name>. When you pull from one place (e.g. your upstream)
and push to another place (e.g. your own publishing repository), you would want to set
remote.pushDefault to specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this option to override
it for a specific branch.
branch.<name>.merge
Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch for the given branch. It tells git
fetch/git pull/git rebase which branch to merge and can also affect git push (see push.default). When
in branch <name>, it tells git fetch the default refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The
value is handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a ref which is fetched from the
remote given by "branch.<name>.remote". The merge information is used by git pull (which at first
calls git fetch) to lookup the default branch for merging. Without this option, git pull defaults to
merge the first refspec fetched. Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge. If you wish to
setup git pull so that it merges into <name> from another branch in the local repository, you can
point branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the relative path setting . (a period) for
branch.<name>.remote.
branch.<name>.mergeOptions
Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and supported options are the same as
those of git-merge(1), but option values containing whitespace characters are currently not
supported.
branch.<name>.rebase
When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched branch, instead of merging the default
branch from the default remote when "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non
branch-specific manner.
When preserve, also pass --preserve-merges along to git rebase so that locally committed merge
commits will not be flattened by running git pull.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless you understand the implications
(see git-rebase(1) for details).
branch.<name>.description
Branch description, can be edited with git branch --edit-description. Branch description is
automatically added in the format-patch cover letter or request-pull summary.
browser.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The specified command is evaluated in shell with
the URLs passed as arguments. (See git-web--browse(1).)
browser.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to browse HTML help (see -w option in git-
help(1)) or a working repository in gitweb (see git-instaweb(1)).
clean.requireForce
A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, -i or -n. Defaults to true.
color.branch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or
never) or auto (or true), in which case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal.
Defaults to false.
color.branch.<slot>
Use customized color for branch coloration. <slot> is one of current (the current branch), local (a
local branch), remote (a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/), upstream (upstream tracking
branch), plain (other refs).
color.diff
Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches. If this is set to always, git-diff(1),
git-log(1), and git-show(1) will use color for all patches. If it is set to true or auto, those
commands will only use color when output is to the terminal. Defaults to false.
This does not affect git-format-patch(1) or the git-diff-* plumbing commands. Can be overridden on
the command line with the --color[=<when>] option.
color.diff.<slot>
Use customized color for diff colorization. <slot> specifies which part of the patch to use the
specified color, and is one of 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), or whitespace (highlighting whitespace errors).
color.decorate.<slot>
Use customized color for git log --decorate output. <slot> is one of branch, remoteBranch, tag,
stash or HEAD for local branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively.
color.grep
When set to always, always highlight matches. When false (or never), never. When set to true or auto,
use color only when the output is written to the terminal. Defaults to false.
color.grep.<slot>
Use customized color for grep colorization. <slot> specifies which part of the line to use the
specified color, and is one of
context
non-matching text in context lines (when using -A, -B, or -C)
filename
filename prefix (when not using -h)
function
function name lines (when using -p)
linenumber
line number prefix (when using -n)
match
matching text (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. Defaults to false.
color.interactive.<slot>
Use customized color for git add --interactive and git clean --interactive output. <slot> may be
prompt, header, help or error, for four distinct types of normal output from interactive commands.
color.pager
A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in use (default is true).
color.showBranch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-show-branch(1). May be set to always, false
(or never) or auto (or true), in which case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal.
Defaults to false.
color.status
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-status(1). May be set to always, false (or
never) or auto (or true), in which case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal.
Defaults to false.
color.status.<slot>
Use customized color for status colorization. <slot> is one of header (the header text of the status
message), added or updated (files which are added but not committed), changed (files which are
changed but not added in the index), untracked (files which are not tracked by Git), branch (the
current branch), nobranch (the color the no branch warning is shown in, defaulting to red), 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 a file to use as the template for new commit messages. "~/" is expanded to the value of $HOME
and "~user/" to the specified user’s home directory.
credential.helper
Specify an external helper to be called when a username or password credential is needed; the helper
may consult external storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. See gitcredentials(7)
for details.
credential.useHttpPath
When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http or https URL to be important.
Defaults to false. See gitcredentials(7) for more information.
credential.username
If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username by default. See
credential.<context>.* below, and gitcredentials(7).
credential.<url>.*
Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to some credentials. For example
"credential.https://example.com.username" would set the default username only for https connections
to example.com. See gitcredentials(7) for details on how URLs are matched.
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.external
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal diff machinery,
but using the given command. Can be overridden with the ‘GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF’ environment variable. The
command is called with parameters as described under "git Diffs" in git(1). Note: if you want to use
an external diff program only on a subset of your files, you might want to use gitattributes(5)
instead.
diff.ignoreSubmodules
Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this affects only git diff Porcelain, and
not lower level diff commands such as git diff-files. git checkout also honors this setting when
reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to all disables the submodule summary normally shown by git
commit and git status when status.submoduleSummary is set unless it is overridden by using the
--ignore-submodules command-line option. The git submodule commands are not affected by this setting.
diff.mnemonicPrefix
If set, git diff uses a prefix pair that is different from the standard "a/" and "b/" depending on
what is being compared. When this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps the
order of the prefixes:
git diff
compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
git diff HEAD
compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
git diff --cached
compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
git diff HEAD:file1 file2
compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
git diff --no-index a b
compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
diff.noprefix
If set, git diff does not show any source or destination prefix.
diff.orderFile
File indicating how to order files within a diff, using one shell glob pattern per line. Can be
overridden by the -O option to git-diff(1).
diff.renameLimit
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent to the git diff
option -l.
diff.renames
Tells Git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it will enable basic rename detection. If
set to "copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well.
diff.suppressBlankEmpty
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space before each empty output line.
Defaults to false.
diff.submodule
Specify the format in which differences in submodules are shown. The "log" format lists the commits
in the range like git-submodule(1) summary does. The "short" format format just shows the names of
the commits at the beginning and end of the range. Defaults to short.
diff.wordRegex
A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word" when performing word-by-word
difference calculations. Character sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
characters are ignorable whitespace.
diff.<driver>.command
The custom diff driver command. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.xfuncname
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to recognize the hunk header. A built-in
pattern may also be used. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.binary
Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as binary. See gitattributes(5) for
details.
diff.<driver>.textconv
The command that the diff driver should call to generate the text-converted version of a file. The
result of the conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.wordRegex
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to split words in a line. See gitattributes(5)
for details.
diff.<driver>.cachetextconv
Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text conversion outputs. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.tool
Controls which diff tool is used by git-difftool(1). This variable overrides the value configured in
merge.tool. The list below shows the valid built-in values. Any other value is treated as a custom
diff tool and requires that a corresponding difftool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined.
• araxis
• bc
• bc3
• codecompare
• deltawalker
• diffmerge
• diffuse
• ecmerge
• emerge
• gvimdiff
• gvimdiff2
• gvimdiff3
• kdiff3
• kompare
• meld
• opendiff
• p4merge
• tkdiff
• vimdiff
• vimdiff2
• vimdiff3
• winmerge
• xxdiff
diff.algorithm
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
default, myers
The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default.
minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is produced.
patience
Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
histogram
This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support low-occurrence common elements".
difftool.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH.
difftool.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool. The specified command is evaluated in shell
with the following variables available: LOCAL is set to the name of the temporary file containing the
contents of the diff pre-image and REMOTE is set to the name of the temporary file containing the
contents of the diff post-image.
difftool.prompt
Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
fetch.recurseSubmodules
This option can be either set to a boolean value or to on-demand. Setting it to a boolean changes the
behavior of fetch and pull to unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not
recurse at all when set to false. When set to on-demand (the default value), fetch and pull will only
recurse into a populated submodule when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the
submodule’s reference.
fetch.fsckObjects
If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched objects. It will abort in the case of a
malformed object or a broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. Defaults to
false. If not set, the value of transfer.fsckObjects is used instead.
fetch.unpackLimit
If the number of objects fetched over the Git native transfer is below this limit, then the objects
will be unpacked into loose object files. However if the number of received objects equals or exceeds
this limit then the received pack will be stored as a pack, after adding any missing delta bases.
Storing the pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, especially on slow
filesystems. If not set, the value of transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
fetch.prune
If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the --prune option was given on the command line. See
also remote.<name>.prune.
format.attach
Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for format-patch. The value can also be a double
quoted string which will enable attachments as the default and set the value as the boundary. See the
--attach option in git-format-patch(1).
format.numbered
A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch subjects. It defaults to "auto" which
enables it only if there is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all messages by
setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered option in git-format-patch(1).
format.headers
Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See git-format-patch(1).
format.to, format.cc
Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See the --to and --cc options in
git-format-patch(1).
format.subjectPrefix
The default for format-patch is to output files with the [PATCH] subject prefix. Use this variable to
change that prefix.
format.signature
The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing the Git version number. Use this
variable to change that default. Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress signature
generation.
format.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.
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 250.
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.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.
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. The default is 60 days. See git-rerere(1).
gc.rerereUnresolved
Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are kept for this many days when git rerere gc is
run. The default is 15 days. See git-rerere(1).
gitcvs.commitMsgAnnotation
Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string to disable this feature. Defaults to
"via git-CVS emulator".
gitcvs.enabled
Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository. See git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.logFile
Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs various stuff. See git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.usecrlfattr
If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion attributes for files to determine the -k
modes to use. If the attributes force Git to treat a file as text, the -k mode will be left blank so
CVS clients will treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file will be set with -kb
mode, which suppresses any newline munging the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not
allow the file type to be determined, then gitcvs.allBinary is used. See gitattributes(5).
gitcvs.allBinary
This is used if gitcvs.usecrlfattr does not resolve the correct -kb mode to use. If true, all
unresolved files are sent to the client in mode -kb. This causes the client to treat them as binary
files, which suppresses any newline munging it otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to
"guess", then the contents of the file are examined to decide if it is binary, similar to
core.autocrlf.
gitcvs.dbName
Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information derived from the Git repository. The
exact meaning depends on the used database driver, for SQLite (which is the default driver) this is a
filename. Supports variable substitution (see git-cvsserver(1) for details). May not contain
semicolons (;). Default: %Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite
gitcvs.dbDriver
Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver for this here, but it might not work.
git-cvsserver is tested with DBD::SQLite, reported to work with DBD::Pg, and reported not to work
with DBD::mysql. Experimental feature. May not contain double colons (:). Default: SQLite. See git-
cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.dbUser, gitcvs.dbPass
Database user and password. Only useful if setting gitcvs.dbDriver, since SQLite has no concept of
database users and/or passwords. gitcvs.dbUser supports variable substitution (see git-cvsserver(1)
for details).
gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix
Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any database tables used, allowing a single
database to be used for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see git-cvsserver(1)
for details). Any non-alphabetic characters will be replaced with underscores.
All gitcvs variables except for gitcvs.usecrlfattr and gitcvs.allBinary can also be specified as
gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname> (where access_method is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply
only for the given access method.
gitweb.category, gitweb.description, gitweb.owner, gitweb.url
See gitweb(1) for description.
gitweb.avatar, gitweb.blame, gitweb.grep, gitweb.highlight, gitweb.patches, gitweb.pickaxe,
gitweb.remote_heads, gitweb.showSizes, gitweb.snapshot
See gitweb.conf(5) for description.
grep.lineNumber
If set to true, enable -n option by default.
grep.patternType
Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of basic, extended, fixed, or perl will enable the
--basic-regexp, --extended-regexp, --fixed-strings, or --perl-regexp option accordingly, while the
value default will return to the default matching behavior.
grep.extendedRegexp
If set to true, enable --extended-regexp option by default. This option is ignored when the
grep.patternType option is set to a value other than default.
gpg.program
Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when making or verifying a PGP signature. The
program must support the same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached signature,
"gpg --verify $file - <$signature" is run, and the program is expected to signal a good signature by
exiting with code 0, and to generate an ASCII-armored detached signature, the standard input of "gpg
-bsau $key" is fed with the contents to be signed, and the program is expected to send the result to
its standard output.
gui.commitMsgWidth
Defines how wide the commit message window is in the git-gui(1). "75" is the default.
gui.diffContext
Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff made by the git-gui(1). The default
is "5".
gui.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)). This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see
remote.<name>.proxy
http.cookieFile
File containing previously stored cookie lines which should be used in the Git http session, if they
match the server. The file format of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or
the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see curl(1)). NOTE that the file specified with
http.cookieFile is only used as input unless http.saveCookies is set.
http.saveCookies
If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by http.cookieFile. Has no
effect if http.cookieFile is unset.
http.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. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY environment variable.
http.sslCert
File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_CERT environment variable.
http.sslKey
File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_KEY environment variable.
http.sslCertPasswordProtected
Enable Git’s password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise OpenSSL will prompt the user,
possibly many times, if the certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED environment variable.
http.sslCAInfo
File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be
overridden by the GIT_SSL_CAINFO environment variable.
http.sslCAPath
Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer with when fetching or pushing over
HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CAPATH environment variable.
http.sslTry
Attempt to use AUTH SSL/TLS and encrypted data transfers when connecting via regular FTP protocol.
This might be needed if the FTP server requires it for security reasons or you wish to connect
securely whenever remote FTP server supports it. Default is false since it might trigger certificate
verification errors on misconfigured servers.
http.maxRequests
How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS
environment variable. Default is 5.
http.minSessions
The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across requests. They will not be ended
with curl_easy_cleanup() until http_cleanup() is invoked. If USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this
value will be capped at 1. Defaults to 1.
http.postBuffer
Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP transports when POSTing data to the remote
system. For requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to
avoid creating a massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is sufficient for most requests.
http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime
If the HTTP transfer speed is less than http.lowSpeedLimit for longer than http.lowSpeedTime seconds,
the transfer is aborted. Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT and
GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME environment variables.
http.noEPSV
A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl. This can helpful with some "poor" ftp
servers which don’t support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV environment
variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
http.userAgent
The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default value represents the version of
the client Git such as git/1.7.1. This option allows you to override this value to a more common
value such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if connecting through a firewall that
restricts HTTP connections to a set of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like
git/1.7.1). Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT environment variable.
http.<url>.*
Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs. For a config key to match a
URL, each element of the config key is compared to that of the URL, in the following order:
1. Scheme (e.g., https in https://example.com/). This field must match exactly between the config
key and the URL.
2. Host/domain name (e.g., example.com in https://example.com/). This field must match exactly
between the config key and the URL.
3. Port number (e.g., 8080 in http://example.com:8080/). This field must match exactly between the
config key and the URL. Omitted port numbers are automatically converted to the correct default
for the scheme before matching.
4. Path (e.g., repo.git in https://example.com/repo.git). The path field of the config key must
match the path field of the URL either exactly or as a prefix of slash-delimited path elements.
This means a config key with path foo/ matches URL path foo/bar. A prefix can only match on a
slash (/) boundary. Longer matches take precedence (so a config key with path foo/bar is a better
match to URL path foo/bar than a config key with just path foo/).
5. User name (e.g., user in https://user@example.com/repo.git). If the config key has a user name it
must match the user name in the URL exactly. If the config key does not have a user name, that
config key will match a URL with any user name (including none), but at a lower precedence than a
config key with a user name.
The list above is ordered by decreasing precedence; a URL that matches a config key’s path is
preferred to one that matches its user name. For example, if the URL is
https://user@example.com/foo/bar a config key match of https://example.com/foo will be preferred over
a config key match of https://user@example.com.
All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part, if embedded in the URL, is
always ignored for matching purposes) so that equivalent URLs that are simply spelled differently
will match properly. Environment variable settings always override any matches. The URLs that are
matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs visited as a result of
a redirection do not participate in matching.
i18n.commitEncoding
Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself does not care per se, but this
information is necessary e.g. when importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history
browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other porcelains). See e.g. git-
mailinfo(1). Defaults to utf-8.
i18n.logOutputEncoding
Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when running git log and friends.
imap
The configuration variables in the imap section are described in git-imap-send(1).
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.
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. This is the same as the log commands
--decorate option.
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.showRoot
If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event. This is equivalent to a diff
against an empty tree. Tools like git-log(1) or git-whatchanged(1), which normally hide the root
commit will now show it. True by default.
log.mailmap
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and git-whatchanged(1) assume --use-mailmap.
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.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
• 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" and "rsync") that will copy both *.pack file and corresponding *.idx
file from the other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your older version of
Git. If the *.pack file is smaller than 2 GB, however, you can use git-index-pack(1) on the *.pack
file to regenerate the *.idx file.
pack.packSizeLimit
The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects packing to a file when repacking, i.e. the
git:// protocol is unaffected. It can be overridden by the --max-pack-size option of git-repack(1).
The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited. Common unit suffixes of k, m,
or g are supported.
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.
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.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless you understand the implications
(see git-rebase(1) for details).
pull.octopus
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches at once.
pull.twohead
The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
push.default
Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is explicitly given. Different values are
well-suited for specific workflows; for instance, in a purely central workflow (i.e. the fetch source
is equal to the push destination), upstream is probably what you want. Possible values are:
• nothing - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is explicitly given. This is
primarily meant for people who want to avoid mistakes by always being explicit.
• current - push the current branch to update a branch with the same name on the receiving end.
Works in both central and non-central workflows.
• upstream - push the current branch back to the branch whose changes are usually integrated into
the current branch (which is called @{upstream}). This mode only makes sense if you are pushing
to the same repository you would normally pull from (i.e. central workflow).
• simple - in centralized workflow, work like upstream with an added safety to refuse to push if
the upstream branch’s name is different from the local one.
When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally pull from, work as
current. This is the safest option and is suited for beginners.
This mode 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.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 before the operation begins, and apply it
after the operation ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. However, use with
care: the final stash application after a successful rebase might result in non-trivial conflicts.
Defaults to false.
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 instruction list
during an interactive rebase. The format will automatically have the long commit hash prepended to the
format.
receive.advertiseAtomic
By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push capability to its clients. If you don’t
want to this capability to be advertised, set this variable to false.
receive.autogc
By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after receiving data from git-push and updating
refs. You can stop it by setting this variable to false.
receive.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.unpackLimit
If the number of objects received in a push is below this limit then the objects will be unpacked
into loose object files. However if the number of received objects equals or exceeds this limit then
the received pack will be stored as a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the pack
from a push can make the push operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set,
the value of transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
receive.denyDeletes
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the ref. Use this to prevent
such a ref deletion via a push.
receive.denyDeleteCurrent
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the currently checked out branch
of a non-bare repository.
receive.denyCurrentBranch
If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update to the currently checked out
branch of a non-bare repository. Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD out
of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn", print a warning of such a push to stderr,
but allow the push to proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no message.
Defaults to "refuse".
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>.fetch
The default set of "refspec" for git-fetch(1). See git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.push
The default set of "refspec" for git-push(1). See git-push(1).
remote.<name>.mirror
If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave as if the --mirror option was given on the
command line.
remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating using git-fetch(1) or the update
subcommand of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.skipFetchAll
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating using git-fetch(1) or the update
subcommand of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.receivepack
The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See option --receive-pack of git-
push(1).
remote.<name>.uploadpack
The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See option --upload-pack of git-
fetch-pack(1).
remote.<name>.tagOpt
Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag following when fetching from remote <name>.
Setting it to --tags will fetch every tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from
remote branch heads. Passing these flags directly to git-fetch(1) can override this setting. See
options --tags and --no-tags of git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.vcs
Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with the remote with the git-remote-<vcs>
helper.
remote.<name>.prune
When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also remove any remote-tracking
references that no longer exist on the remote (as if the --prune option was given on the command
line). Overrides fetch.prune settings, if any.
remotes.<group>
The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See git-remote(1).
repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
By default, git-repack(1) creates packs that use delta-base offset. If you need to share your
repository with Git older than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb protocol such as http,
then you need to set this option to "false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the native
protocol are unaffected by this option.
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. 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 the this identity is selected, through command-line or sendemail.identity.
sendemail.aliasesFile, sendemail.aliasFileType, sendemail.annotate, sendemail.bcc, sendemail.cc,
sendemail.ccCmd, sendemail.chainReplyTo, sendemail.confirm, sendemail.envelopeSender, sendemail.from,
sendemail.multiEdit, sendemail.signedoffbycc, sendemail.smtpPass, sendemail.suppresscc,
sendemail.suppressFrom, sendemail.to, sendemail.smtpDomain, sendemail.smtpServer,
sendemail.smtpServerPort, sendemail.smtpServerOption, sendemail.smtpUser, sendemail.thread,
sendemail.transferEncoding, sendemail.validate, sendemail.xmailer
See git-send-email(1) for description.
sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)
Deprecated alias for sendemail.signedoffbycc.
showbranch.default
The default set of branches for git-show-branch(1). See git-show-branch(1).
status.relativePaths
By default, git-status(1) shows paths relative to the current directory. Setting this variable to
false shows paths relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git prior to v1.5.4).
status.short
Set to true to enable --short by default in git-status(1). The option --no-short takes precedence
over this variable.
status.branch
Set to true to enable --branch by default in git-status(1). The option --no-branch takes precedence
over this variable.
status.displayCommentPrefix
If set to true, git-status(1) will insert a comment prefix before each output line (starting with
core.commentChar, i.e. # by default). This was the behavior of git-status(1) in Git 1.8.4 and
previous. Defaults to false.
status.showUntrackedFiles
By default, git-status(1) and git-commit(1) show files which are not currently tracked by Git.
Directories which contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name only. Showing
untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all 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 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.
Defaults to true. See description of show command in git-stash(1).
submodule.<name>.path, submodule.<name>.url
The path within this project and URL for a submodule. These variables are initially populated by git
submodule init. See git-submodule(1) and gitmodules(5) for details.
submodule.<name>.update
The default update procedure for a submodule. This variable 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.
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.
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.
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.
uploadpack.keepAlive
When upload-pack has started pack-objects, there may be a quiet period while pack-objects prepares
the pack. Normally it would output progress information, but if --quiet was used for the fetch,
pack-objects will output nothing at all until the pack data begins. Some clients and networks may
consider the server to be hung and give up. Setting this option instructs upload-pack to send an
empty keepalive packet every uploadpack.keepAlive seconds. Setting this option to 0 disables
keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5 seconds.
url.<base>.insteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to start, instead, with <base>. In cases where
some site serves a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple access methods, and
some users need to use different access methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the
equivalent URLs and have Git automatically rewrite the URL to the best alternative for the particular
user, even for a never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one insteadOf strings match
a given URL, the longest match is used.
url.<base>.pushInsteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to; instead, it will be rewritten to start
with <base>, and the resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves a large number
of repositories, and serves them with multiple access methods, some of which do not allow push, this
feature allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have Git automatically use an appropriate URL to
push, even for a never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one pushInsteadOf strings
match a given URL, the longest match is used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will ignore
this setting for that remote.
user.email
Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the
GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, and EMAIL environment variables. See git-commit-tree(1).
user.name
Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
and GIT_COMMITTER_NAME environment variables. See git-commit-tree(1).
user.signingKey
If git-tag(1) or git-commit(1) is not selecting the key you want it to automatically when creating a
signed tag or commit, you can override the default selection with this variable. This option is
passed unchanged to gpg’s --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key using any method that gpg
supports.
versionsort.prereleaseSuffix
When version sort is used in git-tag(1), prerelease tags (e.g. "1.0-rc1") may appear after the main
release "1.0". By specifying the suffix "-rc" in this variable, "1.0-rc1" will appear before "1.0".
This variable can be specified multiple times, once per suffix. The order of suffixes in the config
file determines the sorting order (e.g. if "-pre" appears before "-rc" in the config file then
1.0-preXX is sorted before 1.0-rcXX). 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.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite