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The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect
-the git command's behavior. They can be used by both the git plumbing
+the git command's behavior. `.git/config` file for each repository
+is used to store the information for that repository, and
+`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information to give
+fallback values for `.git/config` file.
+
+They can be used by both the git plumbing
and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where
in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last
dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last
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). See gitlink:git-init-db[1]. False by default.
+ reported by umask(2). See gitlink:git-init[1]. False by default.
core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
this option, `git pull` defaults to merge the first refspec fetched.
Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge.
+color.branch::
+ A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
+ gitlink:git-branch[1]. May be set to `true` (or `always`),
+ `false` (or `never`) or `auto`, 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 tracking branch in refs/remotes/), `plain` (other
+ refs), or `reset` (the normal terminal color). The value for
+ these configuration variables can be one of: `normal`, `bold`,
+ `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, `reverse`, `reset`, `black`, `red`,
+ `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan`, or `white`.
+
color.diff::
When true (or `always`), always use colors in patch.
When false (or `never`), never. When set to `auto`, use
specifies which part of the patch to use the specified
color, and is one of `plain` (context text), `meta`
(metainformation), `frag` (hunk header), `old` (removed
- lines), or `new` (added lines). The value for these
- configuration variables can be one of: `normal`, `bold`,
- `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, `reverse`, `reset`, `black`,
- `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan`, or
- `white`.
+ lines), or `new` (added lines). The values of these
+ variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
color.pager::
A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in
`added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed),
`changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index),
or `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git). The values of
- these variables may be specified as in color.diff.<slot>.
+ these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
diff.renameLimit::
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename
Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created
merge commit messages. False by default.
+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.
+
pack.window::
The size of the window used by gitlink:git-pack-objects[1] when no
window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.