1CONFIGURATION FILE 2------------------ 3 4The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect 5the git command's behavior. `.git/config` file for each repository 6is used to store the information for that repository, and 7`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information to give 8fallback values for `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` 9can be used to store system-wide defaults. 10 11They can be used by both the git plumbing 12and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where 13in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last 14dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last 15dot. The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric 16characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times. 17 18Syntax 19~~~~~~ 20 21The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly 22ignored. The '#' and ';' characters begin comments to the end of line, 23blank lines are ignored. 24 25The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with 26the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next 27section begins. Section names are not case sensitive. Only alphanumeric 28characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. Each variable 29must belong to some section, which means that there must be section 30header before first setting of a variable. 31 32Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a subsection 33put its name in double quotes, separated by space from the section name, 34in the section header, like in example below: 35 36-------- 37 [section "subsection"] 38 39-------- 40 41Subsection names can contain any characters except newline (doublequote 42`"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`, 43respectively) and are case sensitive. Section header cannot span multiple 44lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection. 45You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you 46don't need to. 47 48There is also (case insensitive) alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax. 49In this syntax subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section 50name. 51 52All the other lines are recognized as setting variables, in the form 53'name = value'. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line 54is taken as 'name' and the variable is recognized as boolean "true". 55The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric 56characters and `-` are allowed. There can be more than one value 57for a given variable; we say then that variable is multivalued. 58 59Leading and trailing whitespace in a variable value is discarded. 60Internal whitespace within a variable value is retained verbatim. 61 62The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either 63a string, an integer, or a boolean. Boolean values may be given as yes/no, 640/1, true/false or on/off. Case is not significant in boolean values, when 65converting value to the canonical form using '--bool' type specifier; 66'git-config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false". 67 68String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes. 69You need to enclose variable value in double quotes if you want to 70preserve leading or trailing whitespace, or if variable value contains 71beginning of comment characters (if it contains '#' or ';'). 72Double quote `"` and backslash `\` characters in variable value must 73be escaped: use `\"` for `"` and `\\` for `\`. 74 75The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized: 76`\n` for newline character (NL), `\t` for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB) 77and `\b` for backspace (BS). No other char escape sequence, nor octal 78char sequences are valid. 79 80Variable value ending in a `\` is continued on the next line in the 81customary UNIX fashion. 82 83Some variables may require special value format. 84 85Example 86~~~~~~~ 87 88 # Core variables 89 [core] 90 ; Don't trust file modes 91 filemode = false 92 93 # Our diff algorithm 94 [diff] 95 external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper 96 renames = true 97 98 [branch "devel"] 99 remote = origin 100 merge = refs/heads/devel 101 102 # Proxy settings 103 [core] 104 gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org" 105 gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest 106 107Variables 108~~~~~~~~~ 109 110Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete. 111For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description 112in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core 113porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation. 114 115core.fileMode:: 116 If false, the executable bit differences between the index and 117 the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT. 118 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. 119 120core.ignoreCygwinFSTricks:: 121 This option is only used by Cygwin implementation of Git. If false, 122 the Cygwin stat() and lstat() functions are used. This may be useful 123 if your repository consists of a few separate directories joined in 124 one hierarchy using Cygwin mount. If true, Git uses native Win32 API 125 whenever it is possible and falls back to Cygwin functions only to 126 handle symbol links. The native mode is more than twice faster than 127 normal Cygwin l/stat() functions. True by default, unless core.filemode 128 is true, in which case ignoreCygwinFSTricks is ignored as Cygwin's 129 POSIX emulation is required to support core.filemode. 130 131core.trustctime:: 132 If false, the ctime differences between the index and the 133 working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time 134 is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system 135 crawlers and some backup systems). 136 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. 137 138core.quotepath:: 139 The commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 140 'diff'), when not given the `-z` option, will quote 141 "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the 142 pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the 143 same way strings in C source code are quoted. If this 144 variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are 145 not quoted but output as verbatim. Note that double 146 quote, backslash and control characters are always 147 quoted without `-z` regardless of the setting of this 148 variable. 149 150core.autocrlf:: 151 If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to 152 `LF` when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when 153 writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to 154 'input', in which case the conversion happens only while 155 reading from the filesystem but files are written out with 156 `LF` at the end of lines. Currently, which paths to consider 157 "text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) is 158 decided purely based on the contents. 159 160core.safecrlf:: 161 If true, makes git check if converting `CRLF` as controlled by 162 `core.autocrlf` is reversible. Git will verify if a command 163 modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly. 164 For example, committing a file followed by checking out the 165 same file should yield the original file in the work tree. If 166 this is not the case for the current setting of 167 `core.autocrlf`, git will reject the file. The variable can 168 be set to "warn", in which case git will only warn about an 169 irreversible conversion but continue the operation. 170+ 171CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. 172autocrlf=true will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to 173CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and 174CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by git. For text 175files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings 176such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. 177But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the 178conversion can corrupt data. 179+ 180If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by 181setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right 182after committing you still have the original file in your work 183tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell 184git that this file is binary and git will handle the file 185appropriately. 186+ 187Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with 188mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary 189files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed 190in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing 191to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files 192converting CRLFs corrupts data. 193+ 194Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a 195file identical to the original file for a different setting of 196`core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For example, a text 197file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.autocrlf=input` and could 198later be checked out with `core.autocrlf=true`, in which case the 199resulting file would contain `CRLF`, although the original file 200contained `LF`. However, in both work trees the line endings would be 201consistent, that is either all `LF` or all `CRLF`, but never mixed. A 202file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf` 203mechanism. 204 205core.symlinks:: 206 If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that 207 contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and 208 linkgit:git-add[1] will not change the recorded type to regular 209 file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support 210 symbolic links. True by default. 211 212core.gitProxy:: 213 A "proxy command" to execute (as 'command host port') instead 214 of establishing direct connection to the remote server when 215 using the git protocol for fetching. If the variable value is 216 in the "COMMAND for DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only 217 on hostnames ending with the specified domain string. This variable 218 may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order; 219 the first match wins. 220+ 221Can be overridden by the 'GIT_PROXY_COMMAND' environment variable 222(which always applies universally, without the special "for" 223handling). 224+ 225The special string `none` can be used as the proxy command to 226specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern. 227This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from 228proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains. 229 230core.ignoreStat:: 231 If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index 232 will mark the updated paths with the "assume unchanged" bit in the 233 index. These marked files are then assumed to stay unchanged in the 234 working copy, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not 235 detect the file changes by lstat() calls. This is useful on systems 236 where those are very slow, such as Microsoft Windows. 237 See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. 238 False by default. 239 240core.preferSymlinkRefs:: 241 Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD 242 and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links. 243 This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that 244 expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. 245 246core.bare:: 247 If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no 248 working directory associated with it. If this is the case a 249 number of commands that require a working directory will be 250 disabled, such as linkgit:git-add[1] or linkgit:git-merge[1]. 251+ 252This setting is automatically guessed by linkgit:git-clone[1] or 253linkgit:git-init[1] when the repository was created. By default a 254repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare = 255false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare 256= true). 257 258core.worktree:: 259 Set the path to the working tree. The value will not be 260 used in combination with repositories found automatically in 261 a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not set). 262 This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment 263 variable and the '--work-tree' command line option. It can be 264 a absolute path or relative path to the directory specified by 265 --git-dir or GIT_DIR. 266 Note: If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of 267 --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified, 268 the current working directory is regarded as the top directory 269 of your working tree. 270 271core.logAllRefUpdates:: 272 Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file 273 "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old 274 SHA1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but 275 only when the file exists. If this configuration 276 variable is set to true, missing "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" 277 file is automatically created for branch heads. 278+ 279This information can be used to determine what commit 280was the tip of a branch "2 days ago". 281+ 282This value is true by default in a repository that has 283a working directory associated with it, and false by 284default in a bare repository. 285 286core.repositoryFormatVersion:: 287 Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout 288 version. 289 290core.sharedRepository:: 291 When 'group' (or 'true'), the repository is made shareable between 292 several users in a group (making sure all the files and objects are 293 group-writable). When 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'), the 294 repository will be readable by all users, additionally to being 295 group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), git will use permissions 296 reported by umask(2). When '0xxx', where '0xxx' is an octal number, 297 files in the repository will have this mode value. '0xxx' will override 298 user's umask value (whereas the other options will only override 299 requested parts of the user's umask value). Examples: '0660' will make 300 the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to 301 others (equivalent to 'group' unless umask is e.g. '0022'). '0640' is a 302 repository that is group-readable but not group-writable. 303 See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default. 304 305core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: 306 If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous 307 and might match multiple refs in the .git/refs/ tree. True by default. 308 309core.compression:: 310 An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. 311 -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, 312 and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. 313 If set, this provides a default to other compression variables, 314 such as 'core.loosecompression' and 'pack.compression'. 315 316core.loosecompression:: 317 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that 318 are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no 319 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being 320 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is 321 not set, defaults to 1 (best speed). 322 323core.packedGitWindowSize:: 324 Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a 325 single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow 326 your system to process a smaller number of large pack files 327 more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect 328 performance due to increased calls to the operating system's 329 memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing 330 a large number of large pack files. 331+ 332Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32 333MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should 334be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do 335not need to adjust this value. 336+ 337Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. 338 339core.packedGitLimit:: 340 Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory 341 from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many 342 bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing 343 regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process. 344+ 345Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms. 346This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on 347the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. 348+ 349Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. 350 351core.deltaBaseCacheLimit:: 352 Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects 353 that multiple deltafied objects reference. By storing the 354 entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able 355 to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base 356 objects multiple times. 357+ 358Default is 16 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable 359for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. 360You probably do not need to adjust this value. 361+ 362Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. 363 364core.excludesfile:: 365 In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and 366 '.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns 367 of files which are not meant to be tracked. See 368 linkgit:gitignore[5]. 369 370core.editor:: 371 Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that lets you edit 372 messages by launching an editor uses the value of this 373 variable when it is set, and the environment variable 374 `GIT_EDITOR` is not set. The order of preference is 375 `GIT_EDITOR` environment, `core.editor`, `VISUAL` and 376 `EDITOR` environment variables and then finally `vi`. 377 378core.pager:: 379 The command that git will use to paginate output. Can 380 be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment 381 variable. Note that git sets the `LESS` environment 382 variable to `FRSX` if it is unset when it runs the 383 pager. One can change these settings by setting the 384 `LESS` variable to some other value. Alternately, 385 these settings can be overridden on a project or 386 global basis by setting the `core.pager` option. 387 Setting `core.pager` has no affect on the `LESS` 388 environment variable behaviour above, so if you want 389 to override git's default settings this way, you need 390 to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option 391 in a backward compatible manner, set `core.pager` 392 to `less -+$LESS -FRX`. This will be passed to the 393 shell by git, which will translate the final command to 394 `LESS=FRSX less -+FRSX -FRX`. 395 396core.whitespace:: 397 A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to 398 notice. 'git-diff' will use `color.diff.whitespace` to 399 highlight them, and 'git-apply --whitespace=error' will 400 consider them as errors. You can prefix `-` to disable 401 any of them (e.g. `-trailing-space`): 402+ 403* `trailing-space` treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line 404 as an error (enabled by default). 405* `space-before-tab` treats a space character that appears immediately 406 before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an 407 error (enabled by default). 408* `indent-with-non-tab` treats a line that is indented with 8 or more 409 space characters as an error (not enabled by default). 410* `cr-at-eol` treats a carriage-return at the end of line as 411 part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space` 412 does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return 413 is not a whitespace (not enabled by default). 414 415core.fsyncobjectfiles:: 416 This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files. 417+ 418This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders 419data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use 420journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata 421and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback"). 422 423core.preloadindex:: 424 Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff' 425+ 426This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially 427on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus 428relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', git will do the 429index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing 430overlapping IO's. 431 432alias.*:: 433 Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. 434 after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation 435 "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid 436 confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that 437 hide existing git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by 438 spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. 439 quote pair and a backslash can be used to quote them. 440+ 441If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, 442it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining 443"alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation 444"git new" is equivalent to running the shell command 445"gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". 446 447apply.whitespace:: 448 Tells 'git-apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way 449 as the '--whitespace' option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. 450 451branch.autosetupmerge:: 452 Tells 'git-branch' and 'git-checkout' to setup new branches 453 so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the 454 starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, 455 this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` 456 and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no 457 automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the 458 starting point is a remote branch; `always` -- automatic setup is 459 done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote 460 branch. This option defaults to true. 461 462branch.autosetuprebase:: 463 When a new branch is created with 'git-branch' or 'git-checkout' 464 that tracks another branch, this variable tells git to set 465 up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase"). 466 When `never`, rebase is never automatically set to true. 467 When `local`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of 468 other local branches. 469 When `remote`, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of 470 remote branches. 471 When `always`, rebase will be set to true for all tracking 472 branches. 473 See "branch.autosetupmerge" for details on how to set up a 474 branch to track another branch. 475 This option defaults to never. 476 477branch.<name>.remote:: 478 When in branch <name>, it tells 'git-fetch' and 'git-push' which 479 remote to fetch from/push to. It defaults to `origin` if no remote is 480 configured. `origin` is also used if you are not on any branch. 481 482branch.<name>.merge:: 483 Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch 484 for the given branch. It tells 'git-fetch'/'git-pull' which 485 branch to merge and can also affect 'git-push' (see push.default). 486 When in branch <name>, it tells 'git-fetch' the default 487 refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is 488 handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a 489 ref which is fetched from the remote given by 490 "branch.<name>.remote". 491 The merge information is used by 'git-pull' (which at first calls 492 'git-fetch') to lookup the default branch for merging. Without 493 this option, 'git-pull' defaults to merge the first refspec fetched. 494 Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge. 495 If you wish to setup 'git-pull' so that it merges into <name> from 496 another branch in the local repository, you can point 497 branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the special setting 498 `.` (a period) for branch.<name>.remote. 499 500branch.<name>.mergeoptions:: 501 Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and 502 supported options are equal to that of linkgit:git-merge[1], but 503 option values containing whitespace characters are currently not 504 supported. 505 506branch.<name>.rebase:: 507 When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched branch, 508 instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when 509 "git pull" is run. 510 *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use 511 it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] 512 for details). 513 514browser.<tool>.cmd:: 515 Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The 516 specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed 517 as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web--browse[1].) 518 519browser.<tool>.path:: 520 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to 521 browse HTML help (see '-w' option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a 522 working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]). 523 524clean.requireForce:: 525 A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f 526 or -n. Defaults to true. 527 528color.branch:: 529 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of 530 linkgit:git-branch[1]. May be set to `always`, 531 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used 532 only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false. 533 534color.branch.<slot>:: 535 Use customized color for branch coloration. `<slot>` is one of 536 `current` (the current branch), `local` (a local branch), 537 `remote` (a tracking branch in refs/remotes/), `plain` (other 538 refs). 539+ 540The value for these configuration variables is a list of colors (at most 541two) and attributes (at most one), separated by spaces. The colors 542accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, 543`magenta`, `cyan` and `white`; the attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, 544`blink` and `reverse`. The first color given is the foreground; the 545second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any, 546doesn't matter. 547 548color.diff:: 549 When set to `always`, always use colors in patch. 550 When false (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use 551 colors only when the output is to the terminal. Defaults to false. 552 553color.diff.<slot>:: 554 Use customized color for diff colorization. `<slot>` specifies 555 which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one 556 of `plain` (context text), `meta` (metainformation), `frag` 557 (hunk header), `old` (removed lines), `new` (added lines), 558 `commit` (commit headers), or `whitespace` (highlighting 559 whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be specified as 560 in color.branch.<slot>. 561 562color.grep:: 563 When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or 564 `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use color only 565 when the output is written to the terminal. Defaults to `false`. 566 567color.grep.external:: 568 The string value of this variable is passed to an external 'grep' 569 command as a command line option if match highlighting is turned 570 on. If set to an empty string, no option is passed at all, 571 turning off coloring for external 'grep' calls; this is the default. 572 For GNU grep, set it to `--color=always` to highlight matches even 573 when a pager is used. 574 575color.grep.match:: 576 Use customized color for matches. The value of this variable 577 may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. It is passed using 578 the environment variables 'GREP_COLOR' and 'GREP_COLORS' when 579 calling an external 'grep'. 580 581color.interactive:: 582 When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts 583 and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive"). 584 When false (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use 585 colors only when the output is to the terminal. Defaults to false. 586 587color.interactive.<slot>:: 588 Use customized color for 'git-add --interactive' 589 output. `<slot>` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for 590 four distinct types of normal output from interactive 591 programs. The values of these variables may be specified as 592 in color.branch.<slot>. 593 594color.pager:: 595 A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in 596 use (default is true). 597 598color.showbranch:: 599 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of 600 linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`, 601 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used 602 only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false. 603 604color.status:: 605 A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of 606 linkgit:git-status[1]. May be set to `always`, 607 `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used 608 only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false. 609 610color.status.<slot>:: 611 Use customized color for status colorization. `<slot>` is 612 one of `header` (the header text of the status message), 613 `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed), 614 `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index), 615 `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git), or 616 `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting 617 to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in 618 color.branch.<slot>. 619 620color.ui:: 621 When set to `always`, always use colors in all git commands which 622 are capable of colored output. When false (or `never`), never. When 623 set to `true` or `auto`, use colors only when the output is to the 624 terminal. When more specific variables of color.* are set, they always 625 take precedence over this setting. Defaults to false. 626 627commit.template:: 628 Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. 629 630diff.autorefreshindex:: 631 When using 'git-diff' to compare with work tree 632 files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. 633 Instead, silently run `git update-index --refresh` to 634 update the cached stat information for paths whose 635 contents in the work tree match the contents in the 636 index. This option defaults to true. Note that this 637 affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level 638 'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'. 639 640diff.external:: 641 If this config variable is set, diff generation is not 642 performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the 643 given command. Can be overridden with the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' 644 environment variable. The command is called with parameters 645 as described under "git Diffs" in linkgit:git[1]. Note: if 646 you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of 647 your files, you might want to use linkgit:gitattributes[5] instead. 648 649diff.mnemonicprefix:: 650 If set, 'git-diff' uses a prefix pair that is different from the 651 standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When 652 this configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps 653 the order of the prefixes: 654'git-diff';; 655 compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree; 656'git-diff HEAD';; 657 compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree; 658'git diff --cached';; 659 compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex; 660'git-diff HEAD:file1 file2';; 661 compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity; 662'git diff --no-index a b';; 663 compares two non-git things (1) and (2). 664 665diff.renameLimit:: 666 The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename 667 detection; equivalent to the 'git-diff' option '-l'. 668 669diff.renames:: 670 Tells git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it 671 will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or 672 "copy", it will detect copies, as well. 673 674diff.suppressBlankEmpty:: 675 A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space 676 before each empty output line. Defaults to false. 677 678diff.tool:: 679 Controls which diff tool is used. `diff.tool` overrides 680 `merge.tool` when used by linkgit:git-difftool[1] and has 681 the same valid values as `merge.tool` minus "tortoisemerge" 682 and plus "kompare". 683 684difftool.<tool>.path:: 685 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case 686 your tool is not in the PATH. 687 688difftool.<tool>.cmd:: 689 Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool. 690 The specified command is evaluated in shell with the following 691 variables available: 'LOCAL' is set to the name of the temporary 692 file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and 'REMOTE' 693 is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents 694 of the diff post-image. 695 696difftool.prompt:: 697 Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool. 698 699diff.wordRegex:: 700 A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word" 701 when performing word-by-word difference calculations. Character 702 sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other 703 characters are *ignorable* whitespace. 704 705fetch.unpackLimit:: 706 If the number of objects fetched over the git native 707 transfer is below this 708 limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object 709 files. However if the number of received objects equals or 710 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as 711 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the 712 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, 713 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of 714 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. 715 716format.numbered:: 717 A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch 718 subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there 719 is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all 720 messages by setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered 721 option in linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. 722 723format.headers:: 724 Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted 725 by mail. See linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. 726 727format.suffix:: 728 The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix 729 `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to 730 include the dot if you want it). 731 732format.pretty:: 733 The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, 734 See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], 735 linkgit:git-whatchanged[1]. 736 737format.thread:: 738 The default threading style for 'git-format-patch'. Can be 739 either a boolean value, `shallow` or `deep`. 'Shallow' 740 threading makes every mail a reply to the head of the series, 741 where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the 742 `\--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order. 743 'Deep' threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one. 744 A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false 745 value disables threading. 746 747format.signoff:: 748 A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of 749 format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a 750 patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have 751 the rights to submit this work under the same open source license. 752 Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion. 753 754gc.aggressiveWindow:: 755 The window size parameter used in the delta compression 756 algorithm used by 'git-gc --aggressive'. This defaults 757 to 10. 758 759gc.auto:: 760 When there are approximately more than this many loose 761 objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them. 762 Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a 763 light-weight garbage collection from time to time. The 764 default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables it. 765 766gc.autopacklimit:: 767 When there are more than this many packs that are not 768 marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc 769 --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The 770 default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it. 771 772gc.packrefs:: 773 'git-gc' does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by 774 default so that older dumb-transport clients can still fetch 775 from the repository. Setting this to `true` lets 'git-gc' 776 to run `git pack-refs`. Setting this to `false` tells 777 'git-gc' never to run `git pack-refs`. The default setting is 778 `notbare`. Enable it only when you know you do not have to 779 support such clients. The default setting will change to `true` 780 at some stage, and setting this to `false` will continue to 781 prevent `git pack-refs` from being run from 'git-gc'. 782 783gc.pruneexpire:: 784 When 'git-gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'. 785 Override the grace period with this config variable. The value 786 "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune 787 unreachable objects immediately. 788 789gc.reflogexpire:: 790 'git-reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than 791 this time; defaults to 90 days. 792 793gc.reflogexpireunreachable:: 794 'git-reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than 795 this time and are not reachable from the current tip; 796 defaults to 30 days. 797 798gc.rerereresolved:: 799 Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are 800 kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run. 801 The default is 60 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. 802 803gc.rerereunresolved:: 804 Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are 805 kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run. 806 The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1]. 807 808gitcvs.commitmsgannotation:: 809 Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string 810 to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator". 811 812gitcvs.enabled:: 813 Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository. 814 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. 815 816gitcvs.logfile:: 817 Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs 818 various stuff. See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. 819 820gitcvs.usecrlfattr:: 821 If true, the server will look up the `crlf` attribute for 822 files to determine the '-k' modes to use. If `crlf` is set, 823 the '-k' mode will be left blank, so cvs clients will 824 treat it as text. If `crlf` is explicitly unset, the file 825 will be set with '-kb' mode, which suppresses any newline munging 826 the client might otherwise do. If `crlf` is not specified, 827 then 'gitcvs.allbinary' is used. See linkgit:gitattributes[5]. 828 829gitcvs.allbinary:: 830 This is used if 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' does not resolve 831 the correct '-kb' mode to use. If true, all 832 unresolved files are sent to the client in 833 mode '-kb'. This causes the client to treat them 834 as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it 835 otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to "guess", 836 then the contents of the file are examined to decide if 837 it is binary, similar to 'core.autocrlf'. 838 839gitcvs.dbname:: 840 Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information 841 derived from the git repository. The exact meaning depends on the 842 used database driver, for SQLite (which is the default driver) this 843 is a filename. Supports variable substitution (see 844 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). May not contain semicolons (`;`). 845 Default: '%Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite' 846 847gitcvs.dbdriver:: 848 Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver 849 for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested 850 with 'DBD::SQLite', reported to work with 'DBD::Pg', and 851 reported *not* to work with 'DBD::mysql'. Experimental feature. 852 May not contain double colons (`:`). Default: 'SQLite'. 853 See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1]. 854 855gitcvs.dbuser, gitcvs.dbpass:: 856 Database user and password. Only useful if setting 'gitcvs.dbdriver', 857 since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords. 858 'gitcvs.dbuser' supports variable substitution (see 859 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). 860 861gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix:: 862 Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any 863 database tables used, allowing a single database to be used 864 for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see 865 linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic 866 characters will be replaced with underscores. 867 868All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.usecrlfattr' and 869'gitcvs.allbinary' can also be specified as 870'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method' 871is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given 872access method. 873 874gui.commitmsgwidth:: 875 Defines how wide the commit message window is in the 876 linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default. 877 878gui.diffcontext:: 879 Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff 880 made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5". 881 882gui.encoding:: 883 Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of 884 file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1]. 885 It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute 886 for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). 887 If this option is not set, the tools default to the 888 locale encoding. 889 890gui.matchtrackingbranch:: 891 Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should 892 default to tracking remote branches with matching names or 893 not. Default: "false". 894 895gui.newbranchtemplate:: 896 Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the 897 linkgit:git-gui[1]. 898 899gui.pruneduringfetch:: 900 "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune tracking branches when 901 performing a fetch. The default value is "false". 902 903gui.trustmtime:: 904 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] should trust the file modification 905 timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted. 906 907gui.spellingdictionary:: 908 Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in 909 the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned 910 off. 911 912gui.fastcopyblame:: 913 If true, 'git gui blame' uses '-C' instead of '-C -C' for original 914 location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge 915 repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection. 916 917gui.copyblamethreshold:: 918 Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location 919 detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the 920 linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection. 921 922gui.blamehistoryctx:: 923 Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in 924 linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History 925 Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this 926 variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown. 927 928guitool.<name>.cmd:: 929 Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item 930 of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is 931 mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of 932 the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of 933 the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as 934 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if 935 the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty). 936 937guitool.<name>.needsfile:: 938 Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees 939 that 'FILENAME' is not empty. 940 941guitool.<name>.noconsole:: 942 Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its 943 output. 944 945guitool.<name>.norescan:: 946 Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool 947 finishes execution. 948 949guitool.<name>.confirm:: 950 Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool. 951 952guitool.<name>.argprompt:: 953 Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool 954 through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an 955 argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect 956 if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1', 957 the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact 958 value of the variable is used. 959 960guitool.<name>.revprompt:: 961 Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the 962 'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option 963 is similar to 'argprompt', and can be used together with it. 964 965guitool.<name>.revunmerged:: 966 Show only unmerged branches in the 'revprompt' subdialog. 967 This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not 968 for things like checkout or reset. 969 970guitool.<name>.title:: 971 Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default 972 is the tool name. 973 974guitool.<name>.prompt:: 975 Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of 976 the dialog, before subsections for 'argprompt' and 'revprompt'. 977 The default value includes the actual command. 978 979help.browser:: 980 Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the 981 'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1]. 982 983help.format:: 984 Override the default help format used by linkgit:git-help[1]. 985 Values 'man', 'info', 'web' and 'html' are supported. 'man' is 986 the default. 'web' and 'html' are the same. 987 988help.autocorrect:: 989 Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after 990 waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more 991 than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing 992 will be executed. If the value of this option is negative, 993 the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the 994 value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed. 995 This is the default. 996 997http.proxy:: 998 Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy' 999 environment variable (see linkgit:curl[1]). This can be overridden1000 on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy10011002http.sslVerify::1003 Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing1004 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY' environment1005 variable.10061007http.sslCert::1008 File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing1009 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_CERT' environment1010 variable.10111012http.sslKey::1013 File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing1014 over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_SSL_KEY' environment1015 variable.10161017http.sslCAInfo::1018 File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when1019 fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the1020 'GIT_SSL_CAINFO' environment variable.10211022http.sslCAPath::1023 Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer1024 with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden1025 by the 'GIT_SSL_CAPATH' environment variable.10261027http.maxRequests::1028 How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden1029 by the 'GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS' environment variable. Default is 5.10301031http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime::1032 If the HTTP transfer speed is less than 'http.lowSpeedLimit'1033 for longer than 'http.lowSpeedTime' seconds, the transfer is aborted.1034 Can be overridden by the 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT' and1035 'GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME' environment variables.10361037http.noEPSV::1038 A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.1039 This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't1040 support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the 'GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV'1041 environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).10421043i18n.commitEncoding::1044 Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; git itself1045 does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when1046 importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history1047 browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other1048 porcelains). See e.g. linkgit:git-mailinfo[1]. Defaults to 'utf-8'.10491050i18n.logOutputEncoding::1051 Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when1052 running 'git-log' and friends.10531054imap::1055 The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described1056 in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].10571058instaweb.browser::1059 Specify the program that will be used to browse your working1060 repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].10611062instaweb.httpd::1063 The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working1064 repository. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].10651066instaweb.local::1067 If true the web server started by linkgit:git-instaweb[1] will1068 be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).10691070instaweb.modulepath::1071 The module path for an apache httpd used by linkgit:git-instaweb[1].10721073instaweb.port::1074 The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See1075 linkgit:git-instaweb[1].10761077interactive.singlekey::1078 In interactive programs, allow the user to provide one-letter1079 input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter).1080 Currently this is used only by the `\--patch` mode of1081 linkgit:git-add[1]. Note that this setting is silently1082 ignored if portable keystroke input is not available.10831084log.date::1085 Set default date-time mode for the log command. Setting log.date1086 value is similar to using 'git-log'\'s --date option. The value is one of the1087 following alternatives: {relative,local,default,iso,rfc,short}.1088 See linkgit:git-log[1].10891090log.showroot::1091 If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event.1092 This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.1093 Tools like linkgit:git-log[1] or linkgit:git-whatchanged[1], which1094 normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.10951096mailmap.file::1097 The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default1098 mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded1099 first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable.1100 The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository1101 subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself.1102 See linkgit:git-shortlog[1] and linkgit:git-blame[1].11031104man.viewer::1105 Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the1106 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].11071108man.<tool>.cmd::1109 Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The1110 specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page1111 passed as argument. (See linkgit:git-help[1].)11121113man.<tool>.path::1114 Override the path for the given tool that may be used to1115 display help in the 'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].11161117include::merge-config.txt[]11181119mergetool.<tool>.path::1120 Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case1121 your tool is not in the PATH.11221123mergetool.<tool>.cmd::1124 Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The1125 specified command is evaluated in shell with the following1126 variables available: 'BASE' is the name of a temporary file1127 containing the common base of the files to be merged, if available;1128 'LOCAL' is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of1129 the file on the current branch; 'REMOTE' is the name of a temporary1130 file containing the contents of the file from the branch being1131 merged; 'MERGED' contains the name of the file to which the merge1132 tool should write the results of a successful merge.11331134mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode::1135 For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of1136 the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was1137 successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file1138 timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful1139 if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to1140 indicate the success of the merge.11411142mergetool.keepBackup::1143 After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers1144 can be saved as a file with a `.orig` extension. If this variable1145 is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to1146 `true` (i.e. keep the backup files).11471148mergetool.keepTemporaries::1149 When invoking a custom merge tool, git uses a set of temporary1150 files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this1151 variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be1152 preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has1153 exited. Defaults to `false`.11541155mergetool.prompt::1156 Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.11571158pack.window::1159 The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no1160 window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.11611162pack.depth::1163 The maximum delta depth used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no1164 maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.11651166pack.windowMemory::1167 The window memory size limit used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]1168 when no limit is given on the command line. The value can be1169 suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". Defaults to 0, meaning no1170 limit.11711172pack.compression::1173 An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects1174 in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no1175 compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being1176 slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is1177 not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default1178 compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent1179 to level 6)."11801181pack.deltaCacheSize::1182 The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in1183 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1].1184 A value of 0 means no limit. Defaults to 0.11851186pack.deltaCacheLimit::1187 The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in1188 linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]. Defaults to 1000.11891190pack.threads::1191 Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best1192 delta matches. This requires that linkgit:git-pack-objects[1]1193 be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a1194 warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor1195 machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search window1196 is however multiplied by the number of threads.1197 Specifying 0 will cause git to auto-detect the number of CPU's1198 and set the number of threads accordingly.11991200pack.indexVersion::1201 Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for1202 legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for1203 the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB1204 as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted1205 packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced1206 and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is1207 larger than 2 GB.1208+1209If you have an old git that does not understand the version 2 `{asterisk}.idx` file,1210cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http" and "rsync")1211that will copy both `{asterisk}.pack` file and corresponding `{asterisk}.idx` file from the1212other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with your1213older version of git. If the `{asterisk}.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,1214you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate1215the `{asterisk}.idx` file.12161217pack.packSizeLimit::1218 The default maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects1219 packing to a file, i.e. the git:// protocol is unaffected. It1220 can be overridden by the `\--max-pack-size` option of1221 linkgit:git-repack[1].12221223pager.<cmd>::1224 Allows turning on or off pagination of the output of a1225 particular git subcommand when writing to a tty. If1226 `\--paginate` or `\--no-pager` is specified on the command line,1227 it takes precedence over this option. To disable pagination for1228 all commands, set `core.pager` or `GIT_PAGER` to `cat`.12291230pull.octopus::1231 The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches1232 at once.12331234pull.twohead::1235 The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.12361237push.default::1238 Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is given1239 on the command line, no refspec is configured in the remote, and1240 no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command1241 line. Possible values are:1242+1243* `nothing` do not push anything.1244* `matching` push all matching branches.1245 All branches having the same name in both ends are considered to be1246 matching. This is the default.1247* `tracking` push the current branch to its upstream branch.1248* `current` push the current branch to a branch of the same name.12491250rebase.stat::1251 Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last1252 rebase. False by default.12531254receive.fsckObjects::1255 If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all received1256 objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a1257 broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects.1258 Defaults to false.12591260receive.unpackLimit::1261 If the number of objects received in a push is below this1262 limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object1263 files. However if the number of received objects equals or1264 exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as1265 a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the1266 pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster,1267 especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of1268 `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead.12691270receive.denyDeletes::1271 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes1272 the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push.12731274receive.denyCurrentBranch::1275 If set to true or "refuse", receive-pack will deny a ref update1276 to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.1277 Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD1278 out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn",1279 print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to1280 proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no1281 message. Defaults to "warn".12821283receive.denyNonFastForwards::1284 If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is1285 not a fast forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push,1286 even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is1287 set when initializing a shared repository.12881289remote.<name>.url::1290 The URL of a remote repository. See linkgit:git-fetch[1] or1291 linkgit:git-push[1].12921293remote.<name>.proxy::1294 For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL to1295 the proxy to use for that remote. Set to the empty string to1296 disable proxying for that remote.12971298remote.<name>.fetch::1299 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-fetch[1]. See1300 linkgit:git-fetch[1].13011302remote.<name>.push::1303 The default set of "refspec" for linkgit:git-push[1]. See1304 linkgit:git-push[1].13051306remote.<name>.mirror::1307 If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave1308 as if the `\--mirror` option was given on the command line.13091310remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate::1311 If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating1312 using the update subcommand of linkgit:git-remote[1].13131314remote.<name>.receivepack::1315 The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See1316 option \--receive-pack of linkgit:git-push[1].13171318remote.<name>.uploadpack::1319 The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See1320 option \--upload-pack of linkgit:git-fetch-pack[1].13211322remote.<name>.tagopt::1323 Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when1324 fetching from remote <name>13251326remotes.<group>::1327 The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update1328 <group>". See linkgit:git-remote[1].13291330repack.usedeltabaseoffset::1331 By default, linkgit:git-repack[1] creates packs that use1332 delta-base offset. If you need to share your repository with1333 git older than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb1334 protocol such as http, then you need to set this option to1335 "false" and repack. Access from old git versions over the1336 native protocol are unaffected by this option.13371338rerere.autoupdate::1339 When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the1340 resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using1341 previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false.13421343rerere.enabled::1344 Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical1345 conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they1346 be encountered again. linkgit:git-rerere[1] command is by1347 default enabled if you create `rr-cache` directory under1348 `$GIT_DIR`, but can be disabled by setting this option to false.13491350showbranch.default::1351 The default set of branches for linkgit:git-show-branch[1].1352 See linkgit:git-show-branch[1].13531354status.relativePaths::1355 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the1356 current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths1357 relative to the repository root (this was the default for git1358 prior to v1.5.4).13591360status.showUntrackedFiles::1361 By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show1362 files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which1363 contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name1364 only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all1365 all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some1366 systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays1367 the untracked files. Possible values are:1368+1369--1370 - 'no' - Show no untracked files1371 - 'normal' - Shows untracked files and directories1372 - 'all' - Shows also individual files in untracked directories.1373--1374+1375If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'.1376This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option1377of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1].13781379tar.umask::1380 This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of1381 tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the1382 world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the1383 archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and1384 linkgit:git-archive[1].13851386transfer.unpackLimit::1387 When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are1388 not set, the value of this variable is used instead.1389 The default value is 100.13901391url.<base>.insteadOf::1392 Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to1393 start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a1394 large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple1395 access methods, and some users need to use different access1396 methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the1397 equivalent URLs and have git automatically rewrite the URL to1398 the best alternative for the particular user, even for a1399 never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one1400 insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is used.14011402user.email::1403 Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits.1404 Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL', 'GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL', and1405 'EMAIL' environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].14061407user.name::1408 Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits.1409 Can be overridden by the 'GIT_AUTHOR_NAME' and 'GIT_COMMITTER_NAME'1410 environment variables. See linkgit:git-commit-tree[1].14111412user.signingkey::1413 If linkgit:git-tag[1] is not selecting the key you want it to1414 automatically when creating a signed tag, you can override the1415 default selection with this variable. This option is passed1416 unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify a key1417 using any method that gpg supports.14181419web.browser::1420 Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands.1421 Currently only linkgit:git-instaweb[1] and linkgit:git-help[1]1422 may use it.