Advice on how to set your identity configuration when
your information is guessed from the system username and
domain name. Default: true.
+
+ detachedHead::
+ 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.
--
core.fileMode::
core.autocrlf::
If true, makes git convert `CRLF` at the end of lines in text files to
- `LF` when reading from the filesystem, and convert in reverse when
- writing to the filesystem. The variable can be set to
+ `LF` when reading from the work tree, and convert in reverse when
+ writing to the work tree. The variable can be set to
'input', in which case the conversion happens only while
- reading from the filesystem but files are written out with
- `LF` at the end of lines. A file is considered
+ reading from the work tree but files are written out to the work
+ tree with `LF` at the end of lines. A file is considered
"text" (i.e. be subjected to the autocrlf mechanism) based on
the file's `crlf` attribute, or if `crlf` is unspecified,
based on the file's contents. See linkgit:gitattributes[5].
+
Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
+core.bigFileThreshold::
+ Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without
+ attempting delta compression. Storing large files without
+ delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the
+ slight expense of increased disk usage.
++
+Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
+for most projects as source code and other text files can still
+be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be.
++
+Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported.
++
+Currently only linkgit:git-fast-import[1] honors this setting.
+
core.excludesfile::
In addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and
'.git/info/exclude', git looks into this file for patterns
executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may
not necessarily be the current directory.
+am.keepcr::
+ If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format
+ with parameter '--keep-cr'. In this case git-mailsplit will
+ not remove `\r` from lines ending with `\r\n`. Can be overrriden
+ by giving '--no-keep-cr' from the command line.
+ See linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit:git-mailsplit[1].
+
apply.ignorewhitespace::
When set to 'change', tells 'git apply' to ignore changes in
whitespace, in the same way as the '--ignore-space-change'
`never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use color only
when the output is written to the terminal. Defaults to `false`.
-color.grep.match::
- Use customized color for matches. The value of this variable
- may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>. It is passed using
- the environment variables 'GREP_COLOR' and 'GREP_COLORS' when
- calling an external 'grep'.
+color.grep.<slot>::
+ Use customized color for grep colorization. `<slot>` specifies which
+ part of the line to use the specified color, and is one of
++
+--
+`context`;;
+ non-matching text in context lines (when using `-A`, `-B`, or `-C`)
+`filename`;;
+ filename prefix (when not using `-h`)
+`function`;;
+ function name lines (when using `-p`)
+`linenumber`;;
+ line number prefix (when using `-n`)
+`match`;;
+ matching text
+`selected`;;
+ non-matching text in selected lines
+`separator`;;
+ separators between fields on a line (`:`, `-`, and `=`)
+ and between hunks (`--`)
+--
++
+The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
color.interactive::
When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts
terminal. When more specific variables of color.* are set, they always
take precedence over this setting. Defaults to false.
-commit.status
+commit.status::
A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the
commit message template when using an editor to prepare the commit
message. Defaults to true.
gc.aggressiveWindow::
The window size parameter used in the delta compression
algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults
- to 10.
+ to 250.
gc.auto::
When there are approximately more than this many loose
The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
+init.templatedir::
+ Specify the directory from which templates will be copied.
+ (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of linkgit:git-init[1].)
+
instaweb.browser::
Specify the program that will be used to browse your working
repository in gitweb. See linkgit:git-instaweb[1].
GIT_NOTES_REF) is also implicitly added to the list of refs to be
displayed.
+notes.rewrite.<command>::
+ When rewriting commits with <command> (currently `amend` or
+ `rebase`) and this variable is set to `true`, git
+ automatically copies your notes from the original to the
+ rewritten commit. Defaults to `true`, but see
+ "notes.rewriteRef" below.
++
+This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF`
+environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
+globs.
+
+notes.rewriteMode::
+ When copying notes during a rewrite (see the
+ "notes.rewrite.<command>" option), determines what to do if
+ the target commit already has a note. Must be one of
+ `overwrite`, `concatenate`, or `ignore`. Defaults to
+ `concatenate`.
++
+This setting can be overridden with the `GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE`
+environment variable.
+
+notes.rewriteRef::
+ When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully
+ qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. The ref may be a
+ glob, in which case notes in all matching refs will be copied.
+ You may also specify this configuration several times.
++
+Does not have a default value; you must configure this variable to
+enable note rewriting.
+
pack.window::
The size of the window used by linkgit:git-pack-objects[1] when no
window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
the `{asterisk}.idx` file.
pack.packSizeLimit::
- The default maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects
- packing to a file, i.e. the git:// protocol is unaffected. It
- can be overridden by the `\--max-pack-size` option of
- linkgit:git-repack[1].
+ 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`
+ 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
+ supported.
pager.<cmd>::
Allows turning on or off pagination of the output of a
out of sync with the index and working tree. If set to "warn",
print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push to
proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no
- message. Defaults to "warn".
+ message. Defaults to "refuse".
receive.denyNonFastForwards::
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is
remote.<name>.tagopt::
Setting this value to \--no-tags disables automatic tag following when
- fetching from remote <name>
+ fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to \--tags will fetch every
+ tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote
+ branch heads.
remote.<name>.vcs::
Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause git to interact with