= true).
core.worktree::
- Set the path to the root of the work tree.
+ 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. It can be
- an absolute path or a relative path to the .git directory,
- either specified by --git-dir or GIT_DIR, or automatically
- discovered.
- If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of
+ variable and the '--work-tree' command line option.
+ The value can 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.
+ If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is specified but none of
--work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified,
- the current working directory is regarded as the root of the
- work tree.
+ the current working directory is regarded as the top level
+ of your working tree.
+
Note that this variable is honored even when set in a configuration
-file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory, and its value differs
+file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory and its value differs
from the latter directory (e.g. "/path/to/.git/config" has
core.worktree set to "/different/path"), which is most likely a
-misconfiguration. Running git commands in "/path/to" directory will
+misconfiguration. Running git commands in the "/path/to" directory will
still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can cause
-great confusion to the users.
+confusion unless you know what you are doing (e.g. you are creating a
+read-only snapshot of the same index to a location different from the
+repository's usual working tree).
core.logAllRefUpdates::
Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
part of the line terminator, i.e. with it, `trailing-space`
does not trigger if the character before such a carriage-return
is not a whitespace (not enabled by default).
+* `tabwidth=<n>` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this
+ is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when git fixes `tab-in-indent`
+ errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63.
core.fsyncobjectfiles::
This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files.
one of `header` (the header text of the status message),
`added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed),
`changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index),
- `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git), or
+ `untracked` (files which are not tracked by git),
+ `branch` (the current branch), or
`nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting
to red). The values of these variables may be specified as in
color.branch.<slot>.
sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
characters are *ignorable* whitespace.
+fetch.recurseSubmodules::
+ A boolean value which changes the behavior for fetch and pull, the
+ default is to not recursively fetch populated submodules unless
+ configured otherwise.
+
fetch.unpackLimit::
If the number of objects fetched over the git native
transfer is below this
Running `git pack-refs` in a repository renders it
unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb
transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether
- 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `nobare`
+ 'git gc' runs `git pack-refs`. This can be set to `notbare`
to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a
boolean value. The default is `true`.
URL and other values found in the `.gitmodules` file. See
linkgit:git-submodule[1] and linkgit:gitmodules[5] for details.
+submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules::
+ This option can be used to enable/disable recursive fetching of this
+ submodule. It can be overridden by using the --[no-]recurse-submodules
+ command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull".
+ This setting will override that from in the linkgit:gitmodules[5]
+ file.
+
submodule.<name>.ignore::
Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show
a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it will never be considered