journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata
and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
+core.preloadindex::
+ Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff'
++
+This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially
+on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus
+relatively high IO latencies. With this set to 'true', git will do the
+index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing
+overlapping IO's.
+
alias.*::
Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
affects only 'git-diff' Porcelain, and not lower level
'diff' commands, such as 'git-diff-files'.
-diff.suppress-blank-empty::
- A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
- before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
-
diff.external::
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
will enable basic rename detection. If set to "copies" or
"copy", it will detect copies, as well.
+diff.suppress-blank-empty::
+ A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space
+ before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
+
fetch.unpackLimit::
If the number of objects fetched over the git native
transfer is below this
gc.pruneexpire::
When 'git-gc' is run, it will call 'prune --expire 2.weeks.ago'.
- Override the grace period with this config variable.
+ Override the grace period with this config variable. The value
+ "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune
+ unreachable objects immediately.
gc.reflogexpire::
'git-reflog expire' removes reflog entries older than
kept for this many days when 'git-rerere gc' is run.
The default is 15 days. See linkgit:git-rerere[1].
+gitcvs.commitmsgannotation::
+ Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string
+ to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator".
+
gitcvs.enabled::
Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository.
See linkgit:git-cvsserver[1].
Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this
variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.
+guitool.<name>.cmd::
+ Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item
+ of the linkgit:git-gui[1] `Tools` menu is invoked. This option is
+ mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of
+ the working directory, and in the environment it receives the name of
+ the tool as 'GIT_GUITOOL', the name of the currently selected file as
+ 'FILENAME', and the name of the current branch as 'CUR_BRANCH' (if
+ the head is detached, 'CUR_BRANCH' is empty).
+
+guitool.<name>.needsfile::
+ Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees
+ that 'FILENAME' is not empty.
+
+guitool.<name>.noconsole::
+ Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its
+ output.
+
+guitool.<name>.norescan::
+ Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool
+ finishes execution.
+
+guitool.<name>.confirm::
+ Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
+
+guitool.<name>.argprompt::
+ Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool
+ through the 'ARGS' environment variable. Since requesting an
+ argument implies confirmation, the 'confirm' option has no effect
+ if this is enabled. If the option is set to 'true', 'yes', or '1',
+ the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact
+ value of the variable is used.
+
+guitool.<name>.revprompt::
+ Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
+ 'REVISION' environment variable. In other aspects this option
+ is similar to 'argprompt', and can be used together with it.
+
+guitool.<name>.revunmerged::
+ Show only unmerged branches in the 'revprompt' subdialog.
+ This is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not
+ for things like checkout or reset.
+
+guitool.<name>.title::
+ Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default
+ is the tool name.
+
+guitool.<name>.prompt::
+ Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of
+ the dialog, before subsections for 'argprompt' and 'revprompt'.
+ The default value includes the actual command.
+
help.browser::
Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the
'web' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
is set to `false` then this file is not preserved. Defaults to
`true` (i.e. keep the backup files).
+mergetool.keepTemporaries::
+ When invoking a custom merge tool, git uses a set of temporary
+ files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an error and this
+ variable is set to `true`, then these temporary files will be
+ preserved, otherwise they will be removed after the tool has
+ exited. Defaults to `false`.
+
+mergetool.prompt::
+ Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
+
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.