Documentation / git-repo-config.txton commit GIT 0.99.9l aka 1.0rc4 (423325a)
   1git-repo-config(1)
   2==================
   3
   4NAME
   5----
   6git-repo-config - Get and set options in .git/config.
   7
   8
   9SYNOPSIS
  10--------
  11'git-repo-config' name [value [value_regex]]
  12'git-repo-config' --replace-all name [value [value_regex]]
  13'git-repo-config' --get name [value_regex]
  14'git-repo-config' --get-all name [value_regex]
  15'git-repo-config' --unset name [value_regex]
  16'git-repo-config' --unset-all name [value_regex]
  17
  18DESCRIPTION
  19-----------
  20You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is
  21actually the section and the key separated by a dot, and the value will be
  22escaped.
  23
  24If you want to set/unset an option which can occor on multiple lines, you
  25should provide a POSIX regex for the value. If you want to handle the lines
  26*not* matching the regex, just prepend a single exlamation mark in front
  27(see EXAMPLES).
  28
  29This command will fail if
  30
  31. .git/config is invalid,
  32. .git/config can not be written to,
  33. no section was provided,
  34. the section or key is invalid,
  35. you try to unset an option which does not exist, or
  36. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match.
  37
  38
  39OPTIONS
  40-------
  41
  42--replace-all::
  43        Default behaviour is to replace at most one line. This replaces
  44        all lines matching the key (and optionally the value_regex)
  45
  46--get::
  47        Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex
  48        matching the value).
  49
  50--get-all::
  51        Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key
  52        is not exactly one.
  53
  54--unset::
  55        Remove the line matching the key from .git/config.
  56
  57--unset-all::
  58        Remove all matching lines from .git/config.
  59
  60
  61EXAMPLE
  62-------
  63
  64Given a .git/config like this:
  65
  66        #
  67        # This is the config file, and
  68        # a '#' or ';' character indicates
  69        # a comment
  70        #
  71
  72        ; core variables
  73        [core]
  74                ; Don't trust file modes
  75                filemode = false
  76
  77        ; Our diff algorithm
  78        [diff]
  79                external = "/usr/local/bin/gnu-diff -u"
  80                renames = true
  81
  82        ; Proxy settings
  83        [proxy]
  84                command="ssh" for "ssh://kernel.org/"
  85                command="proxy-command" for kernel.org
  86                command="myprotocol-command" for "my://"
  87                command=default-proxy ; for all the rest
  88
  89you can set the filemode to true with
  90
  91------------
  92% git repo-config core.filemode true
  93------------
  94
  95The hypothetic proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
  96to what URL they apply. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
  97to "ssh".
  98
  99------------
 100% git repo-config proxy.command '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$'
 101------------
 102
 103This makes sure that only the key/value pair for kernel.org is replaced.
 104
 105To delete the entry for renames, do
 106
 107------------
 108% git repo-config --unset diff.renames
 109------------
 110
 111If you want to delete an entry for a multivar (like proxy.command above),
 112you have to provide a regex matching the value of exactly one line.
 113
 114To query the value for a given key, do
 115
 116------------
 117% git repo-config --get core.filemode
 118------------
 119
 120or
 121
 122------------
 123% git repo-config core.filemode
 124------------
 125
 126or, to query a multivar:
 127
 128------------
 129% git repo-config --get proxy.command "for kernel.org$"
 130------------
 131
 132If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do:
 133
 134------------
 135% git repo-config --get-all proxy.command
 136------------
 137
 138If you like to live dangerous, you can replace *all* proxy.commands by a
 139new one with
 140
 141------------
 142% git repo-config --replace-all proxy.command ssh
 143------------
 144
 145However, if you really only want to replace the line for the default proxy,
 146i.e. the one without a "for ..." postfix, do something like this:
 147
 148------------
 149% git repo-config proxy.command ssh '! for '
 150------------
 151
 152To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to
 153
 154------------
 155% git repo-config section.key value '[!]'
 156------------
 157
 158
 159Author
 160------
 161Written by Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
 162
 163Documentation
 164--------------
 165Documentation by Johannes Schindelin.
 166
 167GIT
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 169Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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