The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized:
`\n` for newline character (NL), `\t` for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB)
-and `\b` for backspace (BS). No other char escape sequence, nor octal
-char sequences are valid.
+and `\b` for backspace (BS). Other char escape sequences (including octal
+escape sequences) are invalid.
Variable values ending in a `\` are continued on the next line in the
customary UNIX fashion.
Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete.
For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description
-in the appropriate manual page. You will find a description of non-core
-porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation.
+in the appropriate manual page.
+
+Other git-related tools may and do use their own variables. When
+inventing new variables for use in your own tool, make sure their
+names do not conflict with those that are used by Git itself and
+other popular tools, and describe them in your documentation.
+
advice.*::
These variables control various optional help messages designed to
--
pushUpdateRejected::
Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable
- 'pushNonFFCurrent', 'pushNonFFDefault',
+ 'pushNonFFCurrent',
'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists',
'pushFetchFirst', and 'pushNeedsForce'
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
core.worktree::
Set the path to the root of the working tree.
This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
- variable and the '--work-tree' command line option.
+ variable and the '--work-tree' command-line option.
The value can be an absolute path or relative to the path to
the .git directory, which is either specified by --git-dir
or GIT_DIR, or automatically discovered.
to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base
objects multiple times.
+
-Default is 16 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
+Default is 96 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects.
You probably do not need to adjust this value.
+
environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the
'SSH_ASKPASS' environment variable or, failing that, a simple password
prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
- command line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
+ command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
core.attributesfile::
In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and
messages consider a line that begins with this character
commented, and removes them after the editor returns
(default '#').
++
+If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not
+the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages.
sequence.editor::
Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase instruction file.
configuration, then `$PAGER`, and then the default chosen at
compile time (usually 'less').
+
-When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `FRSX`
+When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `FRX`
(if `LESS` environment variable is set, Git does not change it at
all). If you want to selectively override Git's default setting
-for `LESS`, you can set `core.pager` to e.g. `less -+S`. This will
+for `LESS`, you can set `core.pager` to e.g. `less -S`. This will
be passed to the shell by Git, which will translate the final
-command to `LESS=FRSX less -+S`. The environment tells the command
-to set the `S` option to chop long lines but the command line
-resets it to the default to fold long lines.
+command to `LESS=FRX less -S`. The environment does not set the
+`S` option but the command line does, instructing less to truncate
+long lines. Similarly, setting `core.pager` to `less -+F` will
+deactivate the `F` option specified by the environment from the
+command-line, deactivating the "quit if one screen" behavior of
+`less`. One can specifically activate some flags for particular
+commands: for example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables
+line truncation only for `git blame`.
+
Likewise, when the `LV` environment variable is unset, Git sets it
to `-c`. You can override this setting by exporting `LV` with
commands will only use color when output is to the terminal.
Defaults to false.
+
-This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] nor the
+This does not affect linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or the
'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the
command line with the `--color[=<when>]` option.
object to a worktree file upon checkout. See
linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+gc.aggressiveDepth::
+ The depth parameter used in the delta compression
+ algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
+ to 250.
+
gc.aggressiveWindow::
The window size parameter used in the delta compression
algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
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
+ 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
Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff
made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
+gui.displayuntracked::
+ Determines if linkgit::git-gui[1] shows untracked files
+ in the file list. The default is "true".
+
gui.encoding::
Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of
file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
+index.version::
+ Specify the version with which new index files should be
+ initialized. This does not affect existing repositories.
+
init.templatedir::
Specify the directory from which templates will be copied.
(See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
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
- is not available.
+ is not available; requires the Perl module Term::ReadKey.
log.abbrevCommit::
If true, makes linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], and
pull from, work as `current`. This is the safest option and is suited
for beginners.
+
-This mode will become the default in Git 2.0.
+This mode has become the default in Git 2.0.
* `matching` - push all branches having the same name on both ends.
This makes the repository you are pushing to remember the set of
people may add new branches there, or update the tip of existing
branches outside your control.
+
-This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default
-to `simple`.
+This used to be the default, but not since Git 2.0 (`simple` is the
+new default).
--
"false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the
native protocol are unaffected by this option.
+repack.packKeptObjects::
+ If set to true, makes `git repack` act as if
+ `--pack-kept-objects` was passed. See linkgit:git-repack[1] for
+ details. Defaults to `false` normally, but `true` if a bitmap
+ index is being written (either via `--write-bitmap-index` or
+ `pack.writeBitmaps`).
+
rerere.autoupdate::
When set to true, `git-rerere` updates the index with the
resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using
submodules when `diff.ignoreSubmodules` is set to 'all' or only
for those submodules where `submodule.<name>.ignore=all`. To
also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use
- the --ignore-submodules=dirty command line option or the 'git
+ the --ignore-submodules=dirty command-line option or the 'git
submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does
not honor these settings.
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this
submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
- command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
+ command-line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
file.
not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
The default value is 100.
+uploadarchive.allowUnreachable::
+ If true, allow clients to use `git archive --remote` to request
+ any tree, whether reachable from the ref tips or not. See the
+ discussion in the `SECURITY` section of
+ linkgit:git-upload-archive[1] for more details. Defaults to
+ `false`.
+
uploadpack.hiderefs::
String(s) `upload-pack` uses to decide which refs to omit
from its initial advertisement. Use more than one