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 and only alphanumeric
-characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times.
+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.
Syntax
~~~~~~
You can have `[section]` if you have `[section "subsection"]`, but you
don't need to.
-There is also a case insensitive alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax.
-In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section
-names.
+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'. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line
is taken as 'name' and the variable is recognized as boolean "true".
-The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric
-characters and `-` are allowed. There can be more than one value
-for a given variable; we say then that variable is multivalued.
+The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters
+and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character. There can be more
+than one value for a given variable; we say then that the variable is
+multivalued.
Leading and trailing whitespace in a variable value is discarded.
Internal whitespace within a variable value is retained verbatim.
Some variables may require a special value format.
+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
~~~~~~~
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
+
Variables
~~~~~~~~~
porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation.
advice.*::
- When set to 'true', display the given optional help message.
- When set to 'false', do not display. The configuration variables
- are:
+ 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':
+
--
pushNonFastForward::
- Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] refuses
- non-fast-forward refs. Default: true.
+ Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable
+ 'pushNonFFCurrent', 'pushNonFFDefault', and
+ 'pushNonFFMatching' simultaneously.
+ pushNonFFCurrent::
+ Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] fails due to a
+ non-fast-forward update to the current branch.
+ pushNonFFDefault::
+ Advice to set 'push.default' to 'upstream' or 'current'
+ when you ran linkgit:git-push[1] and pushed 'matching
+ refs' by default (i.e. you did not provide an explicit
+ refspec, and no 'push.default' configuration was set)
+ and it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
+ pushNonFFMatching::
+ Advice shown when you ran linkgit: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.
statusHints::
Directions on how to stage/unstage/add shown in the
output of linkgit:git-status[1] and the template shown
- when writing commit messages. Default: true.
+ when writing commit messages.
commitBeforeMerge::
Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to
merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
- Default: true.
resolveConflict::
Advices shown by various commands when conflicts
prevent the operation from being performed.
- Default: true.
implicitIdentity::
Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
your information is guessed from the system username and
- domain name. Default: true.
-
+ domain name.
detachedHead::
- Advice shown when you used linkgit::git-checkout[1] to
+ Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to
move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
- a local branch after the fact. Default: true.
+ a local branch after the fact.
--
core.fileMode::
If false, the executable bit differences between the index and
- the working copy are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
+ the working tree are ignored; useful on broken filesystems like FAT.
See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
+
The default is true, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1]
core.trustctime::
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
- working copy are ignored; useful when the inode change time
+ 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 linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default.
If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index
will mark the updated paths with the "assume unchanged" bit in the
index. These marked files are then assumed to stay unchanged in the
- working copy, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not
+ working tree, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not
detect the file changes by lstat() calls. This is useful on systems
where those are very slow, such as Microsoft Windows.
See linkgit:git-update-index[1].
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. "{tilde}/" is expanded
- to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the specified user's
+ 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. See linkgit:gitignore[5].
core.askpass::
variable when it is set, and the environment variable
`GIT_EDITOR` is not set. See linkgit:git-var[1].
+sequence.editor::
+ Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase insn 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::
The command that git will use to paginate output. Can
be overridden with the `GIT_PAGER` environment
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.
- *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
- it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
- for details).
+ "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non
+ branch-specific manner.
++
+*NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
+it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
+for details).
browser.<tool>.cmd::
Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The
`never` if you prefer git commands not to use color unless enabled
explicitly with some other configuration or the `--color` option.
+column.ui::
+ Specify whether supported commands should output in columns.
+ This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces
+ or commas:
++
+--
+`always`;;
+ always show in columns
+`never`;;
+ never show in columns
+`auto`;;
+ show in columns if the output is to the terminal
+`column`;;
+ fill columns before rows (default)
+`row`;;
+ fill rows before columns
+`plain`;;
+ show in one column
+`dense`;;
+ make unequal size columns to utilize more space
+`nodense`;;
+ make equal size columns
+--
++
+ This option defaults to 'never'.
+
+column.branch::
+ Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` 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.status::
A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the
commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit
commit.template::
Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
- "{tilde}/" is expanded to the value of `$HOME` and "{tilde}user/" to the
+ "`~/`" 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
+ linkgit: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
+ linkgit: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
+ linkgit: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 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are
+ matched.
+
include::diff-config.txt[]
difftool.<tool>.path::
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
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.
+ `--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.
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 linkgit:gitweb[1] for description.
+
+gitweb.avatar::
+gitweb.blame::
+gitweb.grep::
+gitweb.highlight::
+gitweb.patches::
+gitweb.pickaxe::
+gitweb.remote_heads::
+gitweb.showsizes::
+gitweb.snapshot::
+ See linkgit:gitweb.conf[5] for description.
+
grep.lineNumber::
If set to true, enable '-n' option by default.
grep.extendedRegexp::
If set to true, enable '--extended-regexp' option by 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
linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
This is the default.
http.proxy::
- Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the 'http_proxy'
- environment variable (see linkgit:curl[1]). This can be overridden
- on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.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
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
+ Currently this is used by the `--patch` mode of
linkgit:git-add[1], linkgit:git-checkout[1], linkgit:git-commit[1],
linkgit:git-reset[1], and linkgit:git-stash[1]. Note that this
setting is silently ignored if portable keystroke input
log.abbrevCommit::
If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
- linkgit:git-whatchanged[1] assume `\--abbrev-commit`. You may
- override this option with `\--no-abbrev-commit`.
+ linkgit: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. Possible values are `relative`, `local`,
+ `--date` option. Possible values are `relative`, `local`,
`default`, `iso`, `rfc`, and `short`; see linkgit:git-log[1]
for details.
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 `{asterisk}.idx` file,
+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 `{asterisk}.pack` file and corresponding `{asterisk}.idx` file from the
+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 `{asterisk}.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,
+older version of git. If the `*.pack` file is smaller than 2 GB, however,
you can use linkgit:git-index-pack[1] on the *.pack file to regenerate
-the `{asterisk}.idx` file.
+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`
+ is unaffected. It can be overridden by the `--max-pack-size`
option of linkgit: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
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
+ 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`.
Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
linkgit: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:{asterisk} %H %s"`
+ 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:{asterisk} %H %s"`.
+ 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.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.
++
+*NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use
+it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1]
+for details).
+
pull.octopus::
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches
at once.
line. Possible values are:
+
* `nothing` - do not push anything.
-* `matching` - push all matching branches.
- All branches having the same name in both ends are considered to be
- matching. This is the default.
+* `matching` - push all branches having the same name in both ends.
+ This is for those who prepare all the branches into a publishable
+ shape and then push them out with a single command. It is not
+ appropriate for pushing into a repository shared by multiple users,
+ since locally stalled branches will attempt a non-fast forward push
+ if other users updated the branch.
+ +
+ This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default
+ to `simple`.
* `upstream` - push the current branch to its upstream branch.
-* `tracking` - deprecated synonym for `upstream`.
+ With this, `git push` will update the same remote ref as the one which
+ is merged by `git pull`, making `push` and `pull` symmetrical.
+ See "branch.<name>.merge" for how to configure the upstream branch.
+* `simple` - like `upstream`, but refuses to push if the upstream
+ branch's name is different from the local one. This is the safest
+ option and is well-suited for beginners. It will become the default
+ in Git 2.0.
* `current` - push the current branch to a branch of the same name.
+ +
+ The `simple`, `current` and `upstream` modes are for those who want to
+ push out a single branch after finishing work, even when the other
+ branches are not yet ready to be pushed out. If you are working with
+ other people to push into the same shared repository, you would want
+ to use one of these.
rebase.stat::
Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last
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.
+ Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects`
+ is used instead.
receive.unpackLimit::
If the number of objects received in a push is below this
remote.<name>.mirror::
If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave
- as if the `\--mirror` option was given on the command line.
+ 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
rerere.enabled::
Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical
- conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they
- be encountered again. linkgit:git-rerere[1] command is by
- default enabled if you create `rr-cache` directory under
- `$GIT_DIR`, but can be disabled by setting this option to false.
+ conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they be
+ encountered again. By default, linkgit: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
archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and
linkgit: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.unpackLimit::
When `fetch.unpackLimit` or `receive.unpackLimit` are
not set, the value of this variable is used instead.