used in combination with repositories found automatically in
a .git directory (i.e. $GIT_DIR is not set).
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. It can be
+ a absolute path or relative path to the directory specified by
+ --git-dir or GIT_DIR.
+ Note: If --git-dir or GIT_DIR are specified but none of
+ --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and core.worktree is specified,
+ the current working directory is regarded as the top directory
+ of your working tree.
core.logAllRefUpdates::
Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the file
group-writable). When 'all' (or 'world' or 'everybody'), the
repository will be readable by all users, additionally to being
group-shareable. When 'umask' (or 'false'), git will use permissions
- reported by umask(2). See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default.
+ reported by umask(2). When '0xxx', where '0xxx' is an octal number,
+ files in the repository will have this mode value. '0xxx' will override
+ user's umask value, and thus, users with a safe umask (0077) can use
+ this option. Examples: '0660' is equivalent to 'group'. '0640' is a
+ repository that is group-readable but not group-writable.
+ See linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default.
core.warnAmbiguousRefs::
If true, git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous
When there are more than this many packs that are not
marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc
--auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The
- default value is 20. Setting this to 0 disables it.
+ default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
gc.packrefs::
`git gc` does not run `git pack-refs` in a bare repository by
'gitcvs.dbuser' supports variable substitution (see
linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details).
+gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix::
+ Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any
+ database tables used, allowing a single database to be used
+ for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see
+ linkgit:git-cvsserver[1] for details). Any non-alphabetic
+ characters will be replaced with underscores.
+
All gitcvs variables except for 'gitcvs.allbinary' can also be
specified as 'gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname>' (where 'access_method'
is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given
Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the
'man' format. See linkgit:git-help[1].
-merge.summary::
- Whether to include summaries of merged commits in newly created
- merge commit messages. False by default.
-
-merge.tool::
- Controls which merge resolution program is used by
- linkgit:git-mergetool[1]. Valid built-in values are: "kdiff3",
- "tkdiff", "meld", "xxdiff", "emerge", "vimdiff", "gvimdiff", and
- "opendiff". Any other value is treated is custom merge tool
- and there must be a corresponing mergetool.<tool>.cmd option.
-
-merge.verbosity::
- Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge
- strategy. Level 0 outputs nothing except a final error
- message if conflicts were detected. Level 1 outputs only
- conflicts, 2 outputs conflicts and file changes. Level 5 and
- above outputs debugging information. The default is level 2.
- Can be overridden by 'GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY' environment variable.
-
-merge.<driver>.name::
- Defines a human readable name for a custom low-level
- merge driver. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
-
-merge.<driver>.driver::
- Defines the command that implements a custom low-level
- merge driver. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
-
-merge.<driver>.recursive::
- Names a low-level merge driver to be used when
- performing an internal merge between common ancestors.
- See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details.
+include::merge-config.txt[]
mergetool.<tool>.path::
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
The configuration variables in the 'imap' section are described
in linkgit:git-imap-send[1].
+receive.fsckObjects::
+ 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.
+
receive.unpackLimit::
If the number of objects received in a push is below this
limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object