GIT-CONFIG(1) Git Manual GIT-CONFIG(1)
NAME
git-config - Get and set repository or global options
SYNOPSIS
git config [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
git config [<file-option>] [type] --add name value
git config [<file-option>] [type] --replace-all name value [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] [--name-only] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-urlmatch name URL
git config [<file-option>] --unset name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name
git config [<file-option>] --remove-section name
git config [<file-option>] [--show-origin] [-z|--null] [--name-only] -l | --list
git config [<file-option>] --get-color name [default]
git config [<file-option>] --get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
git config [<file-option>] -e | --edit
DESCRIPTION
You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is actually the section and the key separated by a dot, and the value
will be escaped.
Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the --add option. If you want to update or unset an option which can occur on multiple
lines, a POSIX regexp value_regex needs to be given. Only the existing values that match the regexp are updated or unset. If you want to
handle the lines that do not match the regex, just prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also the section called "EXAMPLES").
The type specifier can be either --int or --bool, to make git config ensure that the variable(s) are of the given type and convert the
value to the canonical form (simple decimal number for int, a "true" or "false" string for bool), or --path, which does some path expansion
(see --path below). If no type specifier is passed, no checks or transformations are performed on the value.
When reading, the values are read from the system, global and repository local configuration files by default, and options --system,
--global, --local and --file <filename> can be used to tell the command to read from only that location (see the section called "FILES").
When writing, the new value is written to the repository local configuration file by default, and options --system, --global, --file
<filename> can be used to tell the command to write to that location (you can say --local but that is the default).
This command will fail with non-zero status upon error. Some exit codes are:
o The section or key is invalid (ret=1),
o no section or name was provided (ret=2),
o the config file is invalid (ret=3),
o the config file cannot be written (ret=4),
o you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5),
o you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), or
o you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6).
On success, the command returns the exit code 0.
OPTIONS
--replace-all
Default behavior is to replace at most one line. This replaces all lines matching the key (and optionally the value_regex).
--add
Adds a new line to the option without altering any existing values. This is the same as providing ^$ as the value_regex in
--replace-all.
--get
Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex matching the value). Returns error code 1 if the key was not found and
the last value if multiple key values were found.
--get-all
Like get, but returns all values for a multi-valued key.
--get-regexp
Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression and writes out the key names. Regular expression matching is currently
case-sensitive and done against a canonicalized version of the key in which section and variable names are lowercased, but subsection
names are not.
--get-urlmatch name URL
When given a two-part name section.key, the value for section.<url>.key whose <url> part matches the best to the given URL is returned
(if no such key exists, the value for section.key is used as a fallback). When given just the section as name, do so for all the keys
in the section and list them. Returns error code 1 if no value is found.
--global
For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than the repository .git/config, write to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
file if this file exists and the ~/.gitconfig file doesn't.
For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig and from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config rather than from all available files.
See also the section called "FILES".
--system
For writing options: write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than the repository .git/config.
For reading options: read only from system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than from all available files.
See also the section called "FILES".
--local
For writing options: write to the repository .git/config file. This is the default behavior.
For reading options: read only from the repository .git/config rather than from all available files.
See also the section called "FILES".
-f config-file, --file config-file
Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG.
--blob blob
Similar to --file but use the given blob instead of a file. E.g. you can use master:.gitmodules to read values from the file
.gitmodules in the master branch. See "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitrevisions(7) for a more complete list of ways to spell blob
names.
--remove-section
Remove the given section from the configuration file.
--rename-section
Rename the given section to a new name.
--unset
Remove the line matching the key from config file.
--unset-all
Remove all lines matching the key from config file.
-l, --list
List all variables set in config file, along with their values.
--bool
git config will ensure that the output is "true" or "false"
--int
git config will ensure that the output is a simple decimal number. An optional value suffix of k, m, or g in the config file will cause
the value to be multiplied by 1024, 1048576, or 1073741824 prior to output.
--bool-or-int
git config will ensure that the output matches the format of either --bool or --int, as described above.
--path
git config will expand a leading ~ to the value of $HOME, and ~user to the home directory for the specified user. This option has no
effect when setting the value (but you can use git config section.variable ~/ from the command line to let your shell do the
expansion).
--expiry-date
git config will ensure that the output is converted from a fixed or relative date-string to a timestamp. This option has no effect when
setting the value.
-z, --null
For all options that output values and/or keys, always end values with the null character (instead of a newline). Use newline instead
as a delimiter between key and value. This allows for secure parsing of the output without getting confused e.g. by values that contain
line breaks.
--name-only
Output only the names of config variables for --list or --get-regexp.
--show-origin
Augment the output of all queried config options with the origin type (file, standard input, blob, command line) and the actual origin
(config file path, ref, or blob id if applicable).
--get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
Find the color setting for name (e.g. color.diff) and output "true" or "false". stdout-is-tty should be either "true" or "false", and
is taken into account when configuration says "auto". If stdout-is-tty is missing, then checks the standard output of the command
itself, and exits with status 0 if color is to be used, or exits with status 1 otherwise. When the color setting for name is undefined,
the command uses color.ui as fallback.
--get-color name [default]
Find the color configured for name (e.g. color.diff.new) and output it as the ANSI color escape sequence to the standard output. The
optional default parameter is used instead, if there is no color configured for name.
-e, --edit
Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either --system, --global, or repository (default).
--[no-]includes
Respect include.* directives in config files when looking up values. Defaults to off when a specific file is given (e.g., using
--file, --global, etc) and on when searching all config files.
CONFIGURATION
pager.config is only respected when listing configuration, i.e., when using --list or any of the --get-* which may return multiple results.
The default is to use a pager.
FILES
If not set explicitly with --file, there are four files where git config will search for configuration options:
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
System-wide configuration file.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config will be used. Any
single-valued variable set in this file will be overwritten by whatever is in ~/.gitconfig. It is a good idea not to create this file
if you sometimes use older versions of Git, as support for this file was added fairly recently.
~/.gitconfig
User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" configuration file.
$GIT_DIR/config
Repository specific configuration file.
If no further options are given, all reading options will read all of these files that are available. If the global or the system-wide
configuration file are not available they will be ignored. If the repository configuration file is not available or readable, git config
will exit with a non-zero error code. However, in neither case will an error message be issued.
The files are read in the order given above, with last value found taking precedence over values read earlier. When multiple values are
taken then all values of a key from all files will be used.
You may override individual configuration parameters when running any git command by using the -c option. See git(1) for details.
All writing options will per default write to the repository specific configuration file. Note that this also affects options like
--replace-all and --unset. git config will only ever change one file at a time.
You can override these rules either by command-line options or by environment variables. The --global and the --system options will limit
the file used to the global or system-wide file respectively. The GIT_CONFIG environment variable has a similar effect, but you can specify
any filename you want.
ENVIRONMENT
GIT_CONFIG
Take the configuration from the given file instead of .git/config. Using the "--global" option forces this to ~/.gitconfig. Using the
"--system" option forces this to $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.
GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig file. See git(1) for details.
See also the section called "FILES".
EXAMPLES
Given a .git/config like this:
#
# This is the config file, and
# a '#' or ';' character indicates
# a comment
#
; core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
; Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
; Proxy settings
[core]
gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org
gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
; HTTP
[http]
sslVerify
[http "https://weak.example.com"]
sslVerify = false
cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
you can set the filemode to true with
% git config core.filemode true
The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern what URL they apply to. Here is how to change the entry for
kernel.org to "ssh".
% git config core.gitproxy '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$'
This makes sure that only the key/value pair for kernel.org is replaced.
To delete the entry for renames, do
% git config --unset diff.renames
If you want to delete an entry for a multivar (like core.gitproxy above), you have to provide a regex matching the value of exactly one
line.
To query the value for a given key, do
% git config --get core.filemode
or
% git config core.filemode
or, to query a multivar:
% git config --get core.gitproxy "for kernel.org$"
If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do:
% git config --get-all core.gitproxy
If you like to live dangerously, you can replace all core.gitproxy by a new one with
% git config --replace-all core.gitproxy ssh
However, if you really only want to replace the line for the default proxy, i.e. the one without a "for ..." postfix, do something like
this:
% git config core.gitproxy ssh '! for '
To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to
% git config section.key value '[!]'
To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use
% git config --add core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'
An example to use customized color from the configuration in your script:
#!/bin/sh
WS=$(git config --get-color color.diff.whitespace "blue reverse")
RESET=$(git config --get-color "" "reset")
echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}"
For URLs in https://weak.example.com, http.sslVerify is set to false, while it is set to true for all others:
% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://good.example.com
true
% git config --bool --get-urlmatch http.sslverify https://weak.example.com
false
% git config --get-urlmatch http https://weak.example.com
http.cookieFile /tmp/cookie.txt
http.sslverify false
CONFIGURATION FILE
The Git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the Git commands' behavior. The .git/config file in each repository
is used to store the configuration for that repository, and $HOME/.gitconfig is used to store a per-user configuration as fallback values
for the .git/config file. The file /etc/gitconfig can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.
The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein the
fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last
dot. The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters and -, and must start with an alphabetic character. Some
variables may appear multiple times; we say then that the variable is multivalued.
Syntax
The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly ignored. The # and ; characters begin comments to the end of line,
blank lines are ignored.
The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next
section begins. Section names are case-insensitive. Only alphanumeric characters, - and . are allowed in section names. Each variable must
belong to some section, which means that there must be a section header before the first setting of a variable.
Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a subsection put its name in double quotes, separated by space from the section
name, in the section header, like in the example below:
[section "subsection"]
Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except newline and the null byte. Doublequote " and backslash can be
included by escaping them as " and \, respectively. Backslashes preceding other characters are dropped when reading; for example, is
read as t and is read as 0 Section headers cannot span multiple lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given
subsection. You can have [section] if you have [section "subsection"], but you don't need to.
There is also a deprecated [section.subsection] syntax. With this syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is also
compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the same restrictions as section names.
All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form name = value
(or just name, which is a short-hand to say that the variable is the boolean "true"). The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only
alphanumeric characters and -, and must start with an alphabetic character.
A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by ending it with a ; the backquote and the end-of-line are stripped.
Leading whitespaces after name =, the remainder of the line after the first comment character # or ;, and trailing whitespaces of the line
are discarded unless they are enclosed in double quotes. Internal whitespaces within the value are retained verbatim.
Inside double quotes, double quote " and backslash characters must be escaped: use " for " and \ for .
The following escape sequences (beside " and \) are recognized:
for newline character (NL), for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB) and
for backspace (BS). Other char escape sequences (including octal escape sequences) are invalid.
Includes
The include and includeIf sections allow you to include config directives from another source. These sections behave identically to each
other with the exception that includeIf sections may be ignored if their condition does not evaluate to true; see "Conditional includes"
below.
You can include a config file from another by setting the special include.path (or includeIf.*.path) variable to the name of the file to be
included. The variable takes a pathname as its value, and is subject to tilde expansion. These variables can be given multiple times.
The contents of the included file are inserted immediately, as if they had been found at the location of the include directive. If the
value of the variable is a relative path, the path is considered to be relative to the configuration file in which the include directive
was found. See below for examples.
Conditional includes
You can include a config file from another conditionally by setting a includeIf.<condition>.path variable to the name of the file to be
included.
The condition starts with a keyword followed by a colon and some data whose format and meaning depends on the keyword. Supported keywords
are:
gitdir
The data that follows the keyword gitdir: is used as a glob pattern. If the location of the .git directory matches the pattern, the
include condition is met.
The .git location may be auto-discovered, or come from $GIT_DIR environment variable. If the repository is auto discovered via a .git
file (e.g. from submodules, or a linked worktree), the .git location would be the final location where the .git directory is, not where
the .git file is.
The pattern can contain standard globbing wildcards and two additional ones, **/ and /**, that can match multiple path components.
Please refer to gitignore(5) for details. For convenience:
o If the pattern starts with ~/, ~ will be substituted with the content of the environment variable HOME.
o If the pattern starts with ./, it is replaced with the directory containing the current config file.
o If the pattern does not start with either ~/, ./ or /, **/ will be automatically prepended. For example, the pattern foo/bar
becomes **/foo/bar and would match /any/path/to/foo/bar.
o If the pattern ends with /, ** will be automatically added. For example, the pattern foo/ becomes foo/**. In other words, it
matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively.
gitdir/i
This is the same as gitdir except that matching is done case-insensitively (e.g. on case-insensitive file sytems)
A few more notes on matching via gitdir and gitdir/i:
o Symlinks in $GIT_DIR are not resolved before matching.
o Both the symlink & realpath versions of paths will be matched outside of $GIT_DIR. E.g. if ~/git is a symlink to /mnt/storage/git, both
gitdir:~/git and gitdir:/mnt/storage/git will match.
This was not the case in the initial release of this feature in v2.13.0, which only matched the realpath version. Configuration that
wants to be compatible with the initial release of this feature needs to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions.
o Note that "../" is not special and will match literally, which is unlikely what you want.
Example
# Core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
# Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
[branch "devel"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/devel
# Proxy settings
[core]
gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
[include]
path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file
path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory
; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git
[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"]
path = /path/to/foo.inc
; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group
[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
path = /path/to/foo.inc
; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group
[includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"]
path = /path/to/foo.inc
; relative paths are always relative to the including
; file (if the condition is true); their location is not
; affected by the condition
[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
path = foo.inc
Values
Values of many variables are treated as a simple string, but there are variables that take values of specific types and there are rules as
to how to spell them.
boolean
When a variable is said to take a boolean value, many synonyms are accepted for true and false; these are all case-insensitive.
true
Boolean true literals are yes, on, true, and 1. Also, a variable defined without = <value> is taken as true.
false
Boolean false literals are no, off, false, 0 and the empty string.
When converting value to the canonical form using --bool type specifier, git config will ensure that the output is "true" or
"false" (spelled in lowercase).
integer
The value for many variables that specify various sizes can be suffixed with k, M,... to mean "scale the number by 1024", "by
1024x1024", etc.
color
The value for a variable that takes a color is a list of colors (at most two, one for foreground and one for background) and attributes
(as many as you want), separated by spaces.
The basic colors accepted are normal, black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white. The first color given is the
foreground; the second is the background.
Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may support
this). If your terminal supports it, you may also specify 24-bit RGB values as hex, like #ff0ab3.
The accepted attributes are bold, dim, ul, blink, reverse, italic, and strike (for crossed-out or "strikethrough" letters). The
position of any attributes with respect to the colors (before, after, or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may be turned
off by prefixing them with no or no- (e.g., noreverse, no-ul, etc).
An empty color string produces no color effect at all. This can be used to avoid coloring specific elements without disabling color
entirely.
For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting
color.decorate.branch to black will paint that branch name in a plain black, even if the previous thing on the same output line (e.g.
opening parenthesis before the list of branch names in log --decorate output) is set to be painted with bold or some other attribute.
However, custom log formats may do more complicated and layered coloring, and the negated forms may be useful there.
pathname
A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a string that begins with "~/" or "~user/", and the usual tilde expansion happens
to such a string: ~/ is expanded to the value of $HOME, and ~user/ to the specified user's home directory.
Variables
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.
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 aid new users. All advice.* variables default to true, and you can
tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to false:
pushUpdateRejected
Set this variable to false if you want to disable pushNonFFCurrent, pushNonFFMatching, pushAlreadyExists, pushFetchFirst, and
pushNeedsForce simultaneously.
pushNonFFCurrent
Advice shown when git-push(1) fails due to a non-fast-forward update to the current branch.
pushNonFFMatching
Advice shown when you ran git-push(1) and pushed matching refs explicitly (i.e. you used :, or specified a refspec that isn't your
current branch) and it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
pushAlreadyExists
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.)
pushFetchFirst
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an object we do not have.
pushNeedsForce
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an object that is not a commit-ish, or
make the remote ref point at an object that is not a commit-ish.
statusHints
Show directions on how to proceed from the current state in the output of git-status(1), in the template shown when writing commit
messages in git-commit(1), and in the help message shown by git-checkout(1) when switching branch.
statusUoption
Advise to consider using the -u option to git-status(1) when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked files.
commitBeforeMerge
Advice shown when git-merge(1) refuses to merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
resolveConflict
Advice shown by various commands when conflicts prevent the operation from being performed.
implicitIdentity
Advice on how to set your identity configuration when your information is guessed from the system username and domain name.
detachedHead
Advice shown when you used git-checkout(1) to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create a local branch after the
fact.
amWorkDir
Advice that shows the location of the patch file when git-am(1) fails to apply it.
rmHints
In case of failure in the output of git-rm(1), show directions on how to proceed from the current state.
addEmbeddedRepo
Advice on what to do when you've accidentally added one git repo inside of another.
ignoredHook
Advice shown if an hook is ignored because the hook is not set as executable.
waitingForEditor
Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for editor input from the user.
core.fileMode
Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree is to be honored.
Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a non-executable file
with executable bit on. git-clone(1) or git-init(1) probe the filesystem to see if it handles the executable bit correctly and this
variable is automatically set as necessary.
A repository, however, may be on a filesystem that handles the filemode correctly, and this variable is set to true when created, but
later may be made accessible from another environment that loses the filemode (e.g. exporting ext4 via CIFS mount, visiting a Cygwin
created repository with Git for Windows or Eclipse). In such a case it may be necessary to set this variable to false. See git-update-
index(1).
The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file).
core.hideDotFiles
(Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and files whose name starts with a dot as hidden. If dotGitOnly, only the .git/
directory is hidden, but no other files starting with a dot. The default mode is dotGitOnly.
core.ignoreCase
If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive, like FAT. For
example, if a directory listing finds "makefile" when Git expects "Makefile", Git will assume it is really the same file, and continue
to remember it as "Makefile".
The default is false, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.ignoreCase true if appropriate when the repository is
created.
core.precomposeUnicode
This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git. When core.precomposeUnicode=true, Git reverts the unicode decomposition of
filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository between Mac OS and Linux or Windows. (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or
higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7). When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, which is backward compatible
with older versions of Git.
core.protectHFS
If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would be considered equivalent to .git on an HFS+ filesystem. Defaults to true on
Mac OS, and false elsewhere.
core.protectNTFS
If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with 8.3 "short"
names. Defaults to true on Windows, and false elsewhere.
core.fsmonitor
If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which will identify all files that may have changed since the requested
date/time. This information is used to speed up git by avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed. See the
"fsmonitor-watchman" section of githooks(5).
core.trustctime
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time is regularly
modified by something outside Git (file system crawlers and some backup systems). See git-update-index(1). True by default.
core.splitIndex
If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used. See git-update-index(1). False by default.
core.untrackedCache
Determines what to do about the untracked cache feature of the index. It will be kept, if this variable is unset or set to keep. It
will automatically be added if set to true. And it will automatically be removed, if set to false. Before setting it to true, you
should check that mtime is working properly on your system. See git-update-index(1). keep by default.
core.checkStat
Determines which stat fields to match between the index and work tree. The user can set this to default or minimal. Default (or
explicitly default), is to check all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime.
core.quotePath
Commands that output paths (e.g. ls-files, diff), will quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the pathname in
double-quotes and escaping those characters with backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters (e.g. for TAB,
for LF,
\ for backslash) or bytes with values larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal 302265 for "micro" in UTF-8). If this variable is set to false,
bytes higher than 0x80 are not considered "unusual" any more. Double-quotes, backslash and control characters are always escaped
regardless of the setting of this variable. A simple space character is not considered "unusual". Many commands can output pathnames
completely verbatim using the -z option. The default value is true.
core.eol
Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for files that have the text property set when core.autocrlf is false.
Alternatives are lf, crlf and native, which uses the platform's native line ending. The default value is native. See gitattributes(5)
for more information on end-of-line conversion.
core.safecrlf
If true, makes Git check if converting CRLF is reversible when end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a command modifies
a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly. For example, committing a file followed by checking out the same file should
yield the original file in the work tree. If this is not the case for the current setting of core.autocrlf, Git will reject the file.
The variable can be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an irreversible conversion but continue the operation.
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to CRLF
during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by Git. For text files this is the
right thing to do: it corrects line endings such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. But for binary files that are
accidentally classified as text the conversion can corrupt data.
If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right after
committing you still have the original file in your work tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell Git that this
file is binary and Git will handle the file appropriately.
Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary files
cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing to do because
CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files converting CRLFs corrupts data.
Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a file identical to the original file for a different setting of
core.eol and core.autocrlf, but only for the current one. For example, a text file with LF would be accepted with core.eol=lf and could
later be checked out with core.eol=crlf, in which case the resulting file would contain CRLF, although the original file contained LF.
However, in both work trees the line endings would be consistent, that is either all LF or all CRLF, but never mixed. A file with mixed
line endings would be reported by the core.safecrlf mechanism.
core.autocrlf
Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting the text attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf". Set to true if
you want to have CRLF line endings in your working directory and the repository has LF line endings. This variable can be set to input,
in which case no output conversion is performed.
core.symlinks
If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that contain the link text. git-update-index(1) and git-add(1) will not
change the recorded type to regular file. Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support symbolic links.
The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the repository is
created.
core.gitProxy
A "proxy command" to execute (as command host port) instead of establishing direct connection to the remote server when using the Git
protocol for fetching. If the variable value is in the "COMMAND for DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only on hostnames ending
with the specified domain string. This variable may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order; the first match wins.
Can be overridden by the GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment variable (which always applies universally, without the special "for" handling).
The special string none can be used as the proxy command to specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern. This is useful
for excluding servers inside a firewall from proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external domains.
core.sshCommand
If this variable is set, git fetch and git push will use the specified command instead of ssh when they need to connect to a remote
system. The command is in the same form as the GIT_SSH_COMMAND environment variable and is overridden when the environment variable is
set.
core.ignoreStat
If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if files have changed by setting the "assume-unchanged" bit for those tracked
files which it has updated identically in both the index and working tree.
When files are modified outside of Git, the user will need to stage the modified files explicitly (e.g. see Examples section in git-
update-index(1)). Git will not normally detect changes to those files.
This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow, such as CIFS/Microsoft Windows.
False by default.
core.preferSymlinkRefs
Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links. This is sometimes needed to
work with old scripts that expect HEAD to be a symbolic link.
core.bare
If true this repository is assumed to be bare and has no working directory associated with it. If this is the case a number of commands
that require a working directory will be disabled, such as git-add(1) or git-merge(1).
This setting is automatically guessed by git-clone(1) or git-init(1) when the repository was created. By default a repository that ends
in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare = false), while all other repositories are assumed to be bare (bare = true).
core.worktree
Set the path to the root of the working tree. If GIT_COMMON_DIR environment variable is set, core.worktree is ignored and not used for
determining the root of working tree. This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment 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. 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 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
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 the "/path/to" directory will still use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and
can cause 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 "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old SHA-1, the
date/time and the reason of the update, but only when the file exists. If this configuration variable is set to true, missing
"$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" file is automatically created for branch heads (i.e. under refs/heads/), remote refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/),
note refs (i.e. under refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD. If it is set to always, then a missing reflog is automatically created
for any ref under refs/.
This information can be used to determine what commit was the tip of a branch "2 days ago".
This value is true by default in a repository that has a working directory associated with it, and false by default in a bare
repository.
core.repositoryFormatVersion
Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout version.
core.sharedRepository
When group (or true), the repository is made shareable between several users in a group (making sure all the files and objects are
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). When 0xxx, where 0xxx is an octal number, files in the repository
will have this mode value. 0xxx will override user's umask value (whereas the other options will only override requested parts of the
user's umask value). Examples: 0660 will make the repo read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to others (equivalent
to group unless umask is e.g. 0022). 0640 is a repository that is group-readable but not group-writable. See git-init(1). False by
default.
core.warnAmbiguousRefs
If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the repository. True by default.
core.compression
An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, and 1..9 are various
speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If set, this provides a default to other compression variables, such as core.looseCompression
and pack.compression.
core.looseCompression
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is not set,
defaults to 1 (best speed).
core.packedGitWindowSize
Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow your system to process a
smaller number of large pack files more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect performance due to increased calls to the
operating system's memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing a large number of large pack files.
Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should be
reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.packedGitLimit
Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many bytes at once to
complete an operation it will unmap existing regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process.
Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 32 TiB (effectively unlimited) on 64 bit platforms. This should be reasonable for all
users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.deltaBaseCacheLimit
Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the entire
decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base objects multiple times.
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.
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. Additionally files larger than this size are always
treated as binary.
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.
core.excludesFile
Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition to .gitignore
(per-directory) and .git/info/exclude. Defaults to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty,
$HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. See gitignore(5).
core.askPass
Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask for a password can be told to use an external program given via the
value of this variable. Can be overridden by the GIT_ASKPASS 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.
core.attributesFile
In addition to .gitattributes (per-directory) and .git/info/attributes, Git looks into this file for attributes (see gitattributes(5)).
Path expansions are made the same way as for core.excludesFile. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
core.hooksPath
By default Git will look for your hooks in the $GIT_DIR/hooks directory. Set this to different path, e.g. /etc/git/hooks, and Git will
try to find your hooks in that directory, e.g. /etc/git/hooks/pre-receive instead of in $GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive.
The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path is taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run (see the
"DESCRIPTION" section of githooks(5)).
This configuration variable is useful in cases where you'd like to centrally configure your Git hooks instead of configuring them on a
per-repository basis, or as a more flexible and centralized alternative to having an init.templateDir where you've changed default
hooks.
core.editor
Commands such as commit and tag that let you edit messages by launching an editor use the value of this variable when it is set, and
the environment variable GIT_EDITOR is not set. See git-var(1).
core.commentChar
Commands such as commit and tag that let you edit 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.
core.filesRefLockTimeout
The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to lock an individual reference. Value 0 means not to retry at all; -1 means
to try indefinitely. Default is 100 (i.e., retry for 100ms).
core.packedRefsTimeout
The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to lock the packed-refs file. Value 0 means not to retry at all; -1 means to
try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for 1 second).
sequence.editor
Text editor used by git rebase -i for editing the rebase instruction file. The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is
used. It can be overridden by the GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR environment variable. When not configured the default commit message editor is
used instead.
core.pager
Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., less). The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell. The order of preference is the
$GIT_PAGER environment variable, then core.pager configuration, then $PAGER, and then the default chosen at compile time (usually
less).
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 be passed to the
shell by Git, which will translate the final 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 another
value or setting core.pager to lv +c.
core.whitespace
A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to notice. git diff will use color.diff.whitespace to highlight them, and git
apply --whitespace=error will consider them as errors. You can prefix - to disable any of them (e.g. -trailing-space):
o blank-at-eol treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line as an error (enabled by default).
o space-before-tab treats a space character that appears immediately before a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as
an error (enabled by default).
o indent-with-non-tab treats a line that is indented with space characters instead of the equivalent tabs as an error (not enabled by
default).
o tab-in-indent treats a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an error (not enabled by default).
o blank-at-eof treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error (enabled by default).
o trailing-space is a short-hand to cover both blank-at-eol and blank-at-eof.
o cr-at-eol treats a carriage-return at the end of line as 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).
o 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.
This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do
not use 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. When enabled, Git will do the index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing overlapping
IO's. Defaults to true.
core.createObject
You can set this to link, in which case a hardlink followed by a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation will
not overwrite existing objects.
On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable. Set this config setting to rename there; However, This will
remove the check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten.
core.notesRef
When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in the given ref. The ref must be fully qualified. If the given ref does
not exist, it is not an error but means that no notes should be printed.
This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by the GIT_NOTES_REF environment variable. See git-notes(1).
core.sparseCheckout
Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in git-read-tree(1) for more information.
core.abbrev
Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If unspecified or set to "auto", an appropriate value is computed based on the
approximate number of packed objects in your repository, which hopefully is enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for some
time. The minimum length is 4.
add.ignoreErrors, add.ignore-errors (deprecated)
Tells git add to continue adding files when some files cannot be added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the --ignore-errors option
of git-add(1). add.ignore-errors is deprecated, as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration variables.
alias.*
Command aliases for the git(1) command wrapper - e.g. after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation "git last" is
equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing Git commands
are ignored. Arguments are split by spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. A quote pair or a backslash can be used
to quote them.
If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining "alias.new =
!gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note
that shell commands will be executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory.
GIT_PREFIX is set as returned by running git rev-parse --show-prefix from the original current directory. See git-rev-parse(1).
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
from lines ending with
. Can be overridden by giving --no-keep-cr from the command line. See git-am(1), git-mailsplit(1).
am.threeWay
By default, git am will fail if the patch does not apply cleanly. When set to true, this setting tells git am to fall back on 3-way
merge if the patch records the identity of blobs it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs available locally (equivalent to
giving the --3way option from the command line). Defaults to false. See git-am(1).
apply.ignoreWhitespace
When set to change, tells git apply to ignore changes in whitespace, in the same way as the --ignore-space-change option. When set to
one of: no, none, never, false tells git apply to respect all whitespace differences. See git-apply(1).
apply.whitespace
Tells git apply how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the --whitespace option. See git-apply(1).
blame.showRoot
Do not treat root commits as boundaries in git-blame(1). This option defaults to false.
blame.blankBoundary
Show blank commit object name for boundary commits in git-blame(1). This option defaults to false.
blame.showEmail
Show the author email instead of author name in git-blame(1). This option defaults to false.
blame.date
Specifies the format used to output dates in git-blame(1). If unset the iso format is used. For supported values, see the discussion of
the --date option at git-log(1).
branch.autoSetupMerge
Tells git branch and git checkout to set up new branches so that git-pull(1) will appropriately merge from the starting point branch.
Note that even if this option is not set, this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the --track and --no-track options. The valid
settings are: false -- no automatic setup is done; true -- automatic setup is done when the starting point is a remote-tracking branch;
always -- automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote-tracking branch. This option defaults to
true.
branch.autoSetupRebase
When a new branch is created with git branch or git checkout that tracks another branch, this variable tells Git to set up pull to
rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase"). When never, rebase is never automatically set to true. When local, rebase is set
to true for tracked branches of other local branches. When remote, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of remote-tracking
branches. When always, rebase will be set to true for all tracking branches. See "branch.autoSetupMerge" for details on how to set up a
branch to track another branch. This option defaults to never.
branch.<name>.remote
When on branch <name>, it tells git fetch and git push which remote to fetch from/push to. The remote to push to may be overridden with
remote.pushDefault (for all branches). The remote to push to, for the current branch, may be further overridden by
branch.<name>.pushRemote. If no remote is configured, or if you are not on any branch, it defaults to origin for fetching and
remote.pushDefault for pushing. Additionally, . (a period) is the current local repository (a dot-repository), see
branch.<name>.merge's final note below.
branch.<name>.pushRemote
When on branch <name>, it overrides branch.<name>.remote for pushing. It also overrides remote.pushDefault for pushing from branch
<name>. When you pull from one place (e.g. your upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own publishing repository), you would
want to set remote.pushDefault to specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this option to override it for a specific
branch.
branch.<name>.merge
Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch for the given branch. It tells git fetch/git pull/git rebase which
branch to merge and can also affect git push (see push.default). When in branch <name>, it tells git fetch the default refspec to be
marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a ref which is fetched from
the remote given by "branch.<name>.remote". The merge information is used by git pull (which at first calls git fetch) to lookup the
default branch for merging. Without this option, git pull defaults to merge the first refspec fetched. Specify multiple values to get
an octopus merge. If you wish to setup git pull so that it merges into <name> from another branch in the local repository, you can
point branch.<name>.merge to the desired branch, and use the relative path setting . (a period) for branch.<name>.remote.
branch.<name>.mergeOptions
Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The syntax and supported options are the same as those of git-merge(1), but option
values containing whitespace characters are currently not supported.
branch.<name>.rebase
When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched branch, instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when
"git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non branch-specific manner.
When preserve, also pass --preserve-merges along to git rebase so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened by running
git pull.
When the value is interactive, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless you understand the implications (see git-rebase(1) for details).
branch.<name>.description
Branch description, can be edited with git branch --edit-description. Branch description is automatically added in the format-patch
cover letter or request-pull summary.
browser.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed as arguments.
(See git-web--browse(1).)
browser.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to browse HTML help (see -w option in git-help(1)) or a working repository in
gitweb (see git-instaweb(1)).
clean.requireForce
A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, -i or -n. Defaults to true.
color.branch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or never) or auto (or true), in which
case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).
color.branch.<slot>
Use customized color for branch coloration. <slot> is one of current (the current branch), local (a local branch), remote (a
remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/), upstream (upstream tracking branch), plain (other refs).
color.diff
Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches. If this is set to always, git-diff(1), git-log(1), and git-show(1) will
use color for all patches. If it is set to true or auto, those commands will only use color when output is to the terminal. If unset,
then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).
This does not affect git-format-patch(1) or the git-diff-* plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the command line with the
--color[=<when>] option.
diff.colorMoved
If set to either a valid <mode> or a true value, moved lines in a diff are colored differently, for details of valid modes see
--color-moved in git-diff(1). If simply set to true the default color mode will be used. When set to false, moved lines are not
colored.
color.diff.<slot>
Use customized color for diff colorization. <slot> specifies which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one of context
(context text - plain is a historical synonym), meta (metainformation), frag (hunk header), func (function in hunk header), old
(removed lines), new (added lines), commit (commit headers), whitespace (highlighting whitespace errors), oldMoved (deleted lines),
newMoved (added lines), oldMovedDimmed, oldMovedAlternative, oldMovedAlternativeDimmed, newMovedDimmed, newMovedAlternative and
newMovedAlternativeDimmed (See the <mode> setting of --color-moved in git-diff(1) for details).
color.decorate.<slot>
Use customized color for git log --decorate output. <slot> is one of branch, remoteBranch, tag, stash or HEAD for local branches,
remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively.
color.grep
When set to always, always highlight matches. When false (or never), never. When set to true or auto, use color only when the output is
written to the terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).
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 (same as setting matchContext and matchSelected)
matchContext
matching text in context lines
matchSelected
matching text in selected lines
selected
non-matching text in selected lines
separator
separators between fields on a line (:, -, and =) and between hunks (--)
color.interactive
When set to always, always use colors for interactive prompts and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive" and
"git-clean --interactive"). When false (or never), never. When set to true or auto, use colors only when the output is to the terminal.
If unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).
color.interactive.<slot>
Use customized color for git add --interactive and git clean --interactive output. <slot> may be prompt, header, help or error, for
four distinct types of normal output from interactive commands.
color.pager
A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in use (default is true).
color.showBranch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-show-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or never) or auto (or true), in
which case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).
color.status
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-status(1). May be set to always, false (or never) or auto (or true), in which
case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).
color.status.<slot>
Use customized color for status colorization. <slot> is 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), branch (the current branch), nobranch (the color the no branch warning is shown in, defaulting to red), localBranch or
remoteBranch (the local and remote branch names, respectively, when branch and tracking information is displayed in the status
short-format), or unmerged (files which have unmerged changes).
color.ui
This variable determines the default value for variables such as color.diff and color.grep that control the use of color per command
family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn configuration to set a default for the --color option. Set it to false or never if
you prefer Git commands not to use color unless enabled explicitly with some other configuration or the --color option. Set it to
always if you want all output not intended for machine consumption to use color, to true or auto (this is the default since Git 1.8.4)
if you want such output to use color when written to the terminal.
column.ui
Specify whether supported commands should output in columns. This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces or commas:
These options control when the feature should be enabled (defaults to never):
always
always show in columns
never
never show in columns
auto
show in columns if the output is to the terminal
These options control layout (defaults to column). Setting any of these implies always if none of always, never, or auto are specified.
column
fill columns before rows
row
fill rows before columns
plain
show in one column
Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option (defaults to nodense):
dense
make unequal size columns to utilize more space
nodense
make equal size columns
column.branch
Specify whether to output branch listing in git branch in columns. See column.ui for details.
column.clean
Specify the layout when list items in git clean -i, which always shows files and directories in columns. See column.ui for details.
column.status
Specify whether to output untracked files in git status in columns. See column.ui for details.
column.tag
Specify whether to output tag listing in git tag in columns. See column.ui for details.
commit.cleanup
This setting overrides the default of the --cleanup option in git commit. See git-commit(1) for details. Changing the default can be
useful when you always want to keep lines that begin with comment character # in your log message, in which case you would do git
config commit.cleanup whitespace (note that you will have to remove the help lines that begin with # in the commit log template
yourself, if you do this).
commit.gpgSign
A boolean to specify whether all commits should be GPG signed. Use of this option when doing operations such as rebase can result in a
large number of commits being signed. It may be convenient to use an agent to avoid typing your GPG passphrase several times.
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.
commit.template
Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
commit.verbose
A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with git commit. See git-commit(1).
credential.helper
Specify an external helper to be called when a username or password credential is needed; the helper may consult external storage to
avoid prompting the user for the credentials. Note that multiple helpers may be defined. See gitcredentials(7) for details.
credential.useHttpPath
When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See
gitcredentials(7) for more information.
credential.username
If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and
gitcredentials(7).
credential.<url>.*
Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to some credentials. For example
"credential.https://example.com.username" would set the default username only for https connections to example.com. See
gitcredentials(7) for details on how URLs are matched.
credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP
Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting.
diff.autoRefreshIndex
When using git diff to compare with work tree files, do not consider stat-only change as changed. Instead, silently run git
update-index --refresh to update the cached stat information for paths whose contents in the work tree match the contents in the index.
This option defaults to true. Note that this affects only git diff Porcelain, and not lower level diff commands such as git diff-files.
diff.dirstat
A comma separated list of --dirstat parameters specifying the default behavior of the --dirstat option to git-diff(1)` and friends. The
defaults can be overridden on the command line (using --dirstat=<param1,param2,...>). The fallback defaults (when not changed by
diff.dirstat) are changes,noncumulative,3. The following parameters are available:
changes
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been removed from the source, or added to the destination. This ignores
the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words, rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other
changes. This is the default behavior when no parameter is given.
lines
Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff analysis, and summing the removed/added line counts. (For binary
files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary files have no natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive --dirstat
behavior than the changes behavior, but it does count rearranged lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output
is consistent with what you get from the other --*stat options.
files
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed. Each changed file counts equally in the dirstat analysis. This
is the computationally cheapest --dirstat behavior, since it does not have to look at the file contents at all.
cumulative
Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well. Note that when using cumulative, the sum of the percentages
reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can be specified with the noncumulative parameter.
<limit>
An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default). Directories contributing less than this percentage of the changes
are not shown in the output.
Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring directories with less than 10% of the total amount of changed files,
and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories: files,10,cumulative.
diff.statGraphWidth
Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch.
diff.context
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default of 3. This value is overridden by the -U option.
diff.interHunkContext
Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number of lines, thereby fusing the hunks that are close to each other. This
value serves as the default for the --inter-hunk-context command line option.
diff.external
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the given command. Can be
overridden with the 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF' environment variable. The command is called with parameters as described under "git Diffs" in
git(1). Note: if you want to use an external diff program only on a subset of your files, you might want to use gitattributes(5)
instead.
diff.ignoreSubmodules
Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this affects only git diff Porcelain, and not lower level diff commands such
as git diff-files. git checkout also honors this setting when reporting uncommitted changes. Setting it to all disables the submodule
summary normally shown by git commit and git status when status.submoduleSummary is set unless it is overridden by using the
--ignore-submodules command-line option. The git submodule commands are not affected by this setting.
diff.mnemonicPrefix
If set, git diff uses a prefix pair that is different from the standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being compared. When this
configuration is in effect, reverse diff output also swaps the order of the prefixes:
git diff
compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
git diff HEAD
compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
git diff --cached
compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
git diff HEAD:file1 file2
compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
git diff --no-index a b
compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
diff.noprefix
If set, git diff does not show any source or destination prefix.
diff.orderFile
File indicating how to order files within a diff. See the -O option to git-diff(1) for details. If diff.orderFile is a relative
pathname, it is treated as relative to the top of the working tree.
diff.renameLimit
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent to the git diff option -l.
diff.renames
Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false", rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename detection is
enabled. If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will detect copies, as well. Defaults to true. Note that this affects only git diff
Porcelain like git-diff(1) and git-log(1), and not lower level commands such as git-diff-files(1).
diff.suppressBlankEmpty
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
diff.submodule
Specify the format in which differences in submodules are shown. The "short" format just shows the names of the commits at the
beginning and end of the range. The "log" format lists the commits in the range like git-submodule(1) summary does. The "diff" format
shows an inline diff of the changed contents of the submodule. Defaults to "short".
diff.wordRegex
A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word" when performing word-by-word difference calculations. Character
sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other characters are ignorable whitespace.
diff.<driver>.command
The custom diff driver command. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.xfuncname
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to recognize the hunk header. A built-in pattern may also be used. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.binary
Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as binary. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.textconv
The command that the diff driver should call to generate the text-converted version of a file. The result of the conversion is used to
generate a human-readable diff. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.wordRegex
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to split words in a line. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.cachetextconv
Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text conversion outputs. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.tool
Controls which diff tool is used by git-difftool(1). This variable overrides the value configured in merge.tool. The list below shows
the valid built-in values. Any other value is treated as a custom diff tool and requires that a corresponding difftool.<tool>.cmd
variable is defined.
o araxis
o bc
o bc3
o codecompare
o deltawalker
o diffmerge
o diffuse
o ecmerge
o emerge
o examdiff
o gvimdiff
o gvimdiff2
o gvimdiff3
o kdiff3
o kompare
o meld
o opendiff
o p4merge
o tkdiff
o vimdiff
o vimdiff2
o vimdiff3
o winmerge
o xxdiff
diff.indentHeuristic
Set this option to true to enable experimental heuristics that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read.
diff.algorithm
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
default, myers
The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default.
minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is produced.
patience
Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
histogram
This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support low-occurrence common elements".
diff.wsErrorHighlight
Highlight whitespace errors in the context, old or new lines of the diff. Multiple values are separated by comma, none resets previous
values, default reset the list to new and all is a shorthand for old,new,context. The whitespace errors are colored with
color.diff.whitespace. The command line option --ws-error-highlight=<kind> overrides this setting.
difftool.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH.
difftool.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the following variables
available: LOCAL is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and REMOTE is set to the name
of the temporary file containing the contents of the diff post-image.
difftool.prompt
Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
fastimport.unpackLimit
If the number of objects imported by git-fast-import(1) is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object files.
However if the number of imported objects equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as a pack. Storing the pack from a
fast-import can make the import operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
fetch.recurseSubmodules
This option can be either set to a boolean value or to on-demand. Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to
unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not recurse at all when set to false. When set to on-demand (the default
value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the
submodule's reference.
fetch.fsckObjects
If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched 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. If not set, the value of transfer.fsckObjects is used instead.
fetch.unpackLimit
If the number of objects fetched over the Git native transfer is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
files. However if the number of received objects equals or exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as a pack, after
adding any missing delta bases. Storing the pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, especially on slow
filesystems. If not set, the value of transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
fetch.prune
If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the --prune option was given on the command line. See also remote.<name>.prune and the
PRUNING section of git-fetch(1).
fetch.pruneTags
If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* refspec was provided when pruning, if not set already. This
allows for setting both this option and fetch.prune to maintain a 1=1 mapping to upstream refs. See also remote.<name>.pruneTags and
the PRUNING section of git-fetch(1).
fetch.output
Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are full and compact. Default value is full. See section OUTPUT in git-fetch(1)
for detail.
format.attach
Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for format-patch. The value can also be a double quoted string which will enable
attachments as the default and set the value as the boundary. See the --attach option in git-format-patch(1).
format.from
Provides the default value for the --from option to format-patch. Accepts a boolean value, or a name and email address. If false,
format-patch defaults to --no-from, using commit authors directly in the "From:" field of patch mails. If true, format-patch defaults
to --from, using your committer identity in the "From:" field of patch mails and including a "From:" field in the body of the patch
mail if different. If set to a non-boolean value, format-patch uses that value instead of your committer identity. Defaults to false.
format.numbered
A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only if there is more
than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all messages by setting it to "true" or "false". See --numbered option in git-format-
patch(1).
format.headers
Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See git-format-patch(1).
format.to, format.cc
Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See the --to and --cc options in git-format-patch(1).
format.subjectPrefix
The default for format-patch is to output files with the [PATCH] subject prefix. Use this variable to change that prefix.
format.signature
The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing the Git version number. Use this variable to change that default. Set
this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress signature generation.
format.signatureFile
Works just like format.signature except the contents of the file specified by this variable will be used as the signature.
format.suffix
The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix .patch. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to include
the dot if you want it).
format.pretty
The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, See git-log(1), git-show(1), git-whatchanged(1).
format.thread
The default threading style for git format-patch. Can be a boolean value, or shallow or deep. shallow threading makes every mail a
reply to the head of the series, where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the --in-reply-to, and the first patch mail, in this
order. deep threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one. A true boolean value is the same as shallow, and a false value
disables threading.
format.signOff
A boolean value which lets you enable the -s/--signoff option of format-patch by default. Note: Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a
patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have the rights to submit this work under the same open source license.
Please see the SubmittingPatches document for further discussion.
format.coverLetter
A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to
generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch.
format.outputDirectory
Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the current working directory.
format.useAutoBase
A boolean value which lets you enable the --base=auto option of format-patch by default.
filter.<driver>.clean
The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree file to a blob upon checkin. See gitattributes(5) for details.
filter.<driver>.smudge
The command which is used to convert the content of a blob object to a worktree file upon checkout. See gitattributes(5) for details.
fsck.<msg-id>
Allows overriding the message type (error, warn or ignore) of a specific message ID such as missingEmail.
For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing
email" means that setting fsck.missingEmail = ignore will hide that issue.
This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories which cannot be repaired without disruptive changes.
fsck.skipList
The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should be
ignored. This feature is useful when an established project should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that can be
safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses. Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
gc.aggressiveDepth
The depth parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by git gc --aggressive. This defaults to 50.
gc.aggressiveWindow
The window size parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by git gc --aggressive. This defaults to 250.
gc.auto
When there are approximately more than this many loose objects in the repository, git gc --auto will pack them. Some Porcelain commands
use this command to perform a light-weight garbage collection from time to time. The default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables
it.
gc.autoPackLimit
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 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
gc.autoDetach
Make git gc --auto return immediately and run in background if the system supports it. Default is true.
gc.logExpiry
If the file gc.log exists, then git gc --auto won't run unless that file is more than gc.logExpiry old. Default is "1.day". See
gc.pruneExpire for more ways to specify its value.
gc.packRefs
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 notbare to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be
set to a boolean value. The default is true.
gc.pruneExpire
When git gc is run, it will call prune --expire 2.weeks.ago. 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, or "never" may be used to suppress pruning. This
feature helps prevent corruption when git gc runs concurrently with another process writing to the repository; see the "NOTES" section
of git-gc(1).
gc.worktreePruneExpire
When git gc is run, it calls git worktree prune --expire 3.months.ago. This config variable can be used to set a different grace
period. The value "now" may be used to disable the grace period and prune $GIT_DIR/worktrees immediately, or "never" may be used to
suppress pruning.
gc.reflogExpire, gc.<pattern>.reflogExpire
git reflog expire removes reflog entries older than this time; defaults to 90 days. The value "now" expires all entries immediately,
and "never" suppresses expiration altogether. With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash") in the middle the setting applies only to the refs
that match the <pattern>.
gc.reflogExpireUnreachable, gc.<pattern>.reflogExpireUnreachable
git reflog expire removes reflog entries older than this time and are not reachable from the current tip; defaults to 30 days. The
value "now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration altogether. With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash") in the
middle, the setting applies only to the refs that match the <pattern>.
gc.rerereResolved
Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are kept for this many days when git rerere gc is run. You can also use more
human-readable "1.month.ago", etc. The default is 60 days. See git-rerere(1).
gc.rerereUnresolved
Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are kept for this many days when git rerere gc is run. You can also use more
human-readable "1.month.ago", etc. The default is 15 days. See 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 git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.logFile
Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs various stuff. See git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.usecrlfattr
If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion attributes for files to determine the -k modes to use. If the attributes
force Git to treat a file as text, the -k mode will be left blank so CVS clients will treat it as text. If they suppress text
conversion, the file will be set with -kb mode, which suppresses any newline munging the client might otherwise do. If the attributes
do not allow the file type to be determined, then gitcvs.allBinary is used. See gitattributes(5).
gitcvs.allBinary
This is used if gitcvs.usecrlfattr does not resolve the correct -kb mode to use. If true, all unresolved files are sent to the client
in mode -kb. This causes the client to treat them as binary files, which suppresses any newline munging it otherwise might do.
Alternatively, if it is set to "guess", then the contents of the file are examined to decide if it is binary, similar to core.autocrlf.
gitcvs.dbName
Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information derived from the Git repository. The exact meaning depends on the used
database driver, for SQLite (which is the default driver) this is a filename. Supports variable substitution (see git-cvsserver(1) for
details). May not contain semicolons (;). Default: %Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite
gitcvs.dbDriver
Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested with
DBD::SQLite, reported to work with DBD::Pg, and reported not to work with DBD::mysql. Experimental feature. May not contain double
colons (:). Default: SQLite. See git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.dbUser, gitcvs.dbPass
Database user and password. Only useful if setting gitcvs.dbDriver, since SQLite has no concept of database users and/or passwords.
gitcvs.dbUser supports variable substitution (see 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 git-cvsserver(1) for details). Any non-alphabetic characters will be replaced with
underscores.
All gitcvs variables except for gitcvs.usecrlfattr and 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 access method.
gitweb.category, gitweb.description, gitweb.owner, gitweb.url
See gitweb(1) for description.
gitweb.avatar, gitweb.blame, gitweb.grep, gitweb.highlight, gitweb.patches, gitweb.pickaxe, gitweb.remote_heads, gitweb.showSizes,
gitweb.snapshot
See gitweb.conf(5) for description.
grep.lineNumber
If set to true, enable -n option by default.
grep.patternType
Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of basic, extended, fixed, or perl will enable the --basic-regexp, --extended-regexp,
--fixed-strings, or --perl-regexp option accordingly, while the value default will return to the default matching behavior.
grep.extendedRegexp
If set to true, enable --extended-regexp option by default. This option is ignored when the grep.patternType option is set to a value
other than default.
grep.threads
Number of grep worker threads to use. See grep.threads in git-grep(1) for more information.
grep.fallbackToNoIndex
If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
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 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 standard input of
"gpg -bsau $key" is fed with the contents to be signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its standard output.
gui.commitMsgWidth
Defines how wide the commit message window is in the git-gui(1). "75" is the default.
gui.diffContext
Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff made by the git-gui(1). The default is "5".
gui.displayUntracked
Determines if 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 git-gui(1) and gitk(1). It can be overridden by setting the
encoding attribute for relevant files (see gitattributes(5)). If this option is not set, the tools default to the locale encoding.
gui.matchTrackingBranch
Determines if new branches created with git-gui(1) should default to tracking remote branches with matching names or not. Default:
"false".
gui.newBranchTemplate
Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the git-gui(1).
gui.pruneDuringFetch
"true" if git-gui(1) should prune remote-tracking branches when performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
gui.trustmtime
Determines if git-gui(1) should trust the file modification timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.
gui.spellingDictionary
Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in the git-gui(1). When set to "none" spell checking is turned off.
gui.fastCopyBlame
If true, git gui blame uses -C instead of -C -C for original location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge
repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.
gui.copyBlameThreshold
Specifies the threshold to use in git gui blame original location detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the git-blame(1)
manual for more information on copy detection.
gui.blamehistoryctx
Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in gitk(1) for the selected commit, when the Show History 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 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 git-help(1).
help.format
Override the default help format used by git-help(1). Values man, info, web and html are supported. man is the default. web and html
are the same.
help.autoCorrect
Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1 sec). If more than one
command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing will be executed. If the value of this option is negative, the corrected command
will be executed immediately. If the value is 0 - the command will be just shown but not executed. This is the default.
help.htmlPath
Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File system paths and URLs are supported. HTML pages will be prefixed with this
path when help is displayed in the web format. This defaults to the documentation path of your Git installation.
http.proxy
Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the http_proxy, https_proxy, and all_proxy environment variables (see curl(1)). In
addition to the syntax understood by curl, it is possible to specify a proxy string with a user name but no password, in which case git
will attempt to acquire one in the same way it does for other credentials. See gitcredentials(7) for more information. The syntax thus
is [protocol://][user[:password]@]proxyhost[:port]. This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy
http.proxyAuthMethod
Set the method with which to authenticate against the HTTP proxy. This only takes effect if the configured proxy string contains a user
name part (i.e. is of the form user@host or user@host:port). This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see
remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod. Both can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD environment variable. Possible values are:
o anyauth - Automatically pick a suitable authentication method. It is assumed that the proxy answers an unauthenticated request with
a 407 status code and one or more Proxy-authenticate headers with supported authentication methods. This is the default.
o basic - HTTP Basic authentication
o digest - HTTP Digest authentication; this prevents the password from being transmitted to the proxy in clear text
o negotiate - GSS-Negotiate authentication (compare the --negotiate option of curl(1))
o ntlm - NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of curl(1))
http.emptyAuth
Attempt authentication without seeking a username or password. This can be used to attempt GSS-Negotiate authentication without
specifying a username in the URL, as libcurl normally requires a username for authentication.
http.delegation
Control GSSAPI credential delegation. The delegation is disabled by default in libcurl since version 7.21.7. Set parameter to tell the
server what it is allowed to delegate when it comes to user credentials. Used with GSS/kerberos. Possible values are:
o none - Don't allow any delegation.
o policy - Delegates if and only if the OK-AS-DELEGATE flag is set in the Kerberos service ticket, which is a matter of realm policy.
o always - Unconditionally allow the server to delegate.
http.extraHeader
Pass an additional HTTP header when communicating with a server. If more than one such entry exists, all of them are added as extra
headers. To allow overriding the settings inherited from the system config, an empty value will reset the extra headers to the empty
list.
http.cookieFile
The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie lines, which should be used in the Git http session, if they match the
server. The file format of the file to read cookies from should be plain HTTP headers or the Netscape/Mozilla cookie file format (see
curl(1)). NOTE that the file specified with http.cookieFile is used only as input unless http.saveCookies is set.
http.saveCookies
If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by http.cookieFile. Has no effect if http.cookieFile is unset.
http.sslVersion
The SSL version to use when negotiating an SSL connection, if you want to force the default. The available and default version depend
on whether libcurl was built against NSS or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto library in use. Internally this sets
the CURLOPT_SSL_VERSION option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the format of this option and for the ssl version
supported. Actually the possible values of this option are:
o sslv2
o sslv3
o tlsv1
o tlsv1.0
o tlsv1.1
o tlsv1.2
Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_VERSION environment variable. To force git to use libcurl's default ssl version and ignore any
explicit http.sslversion option, set GIT_SSL_VERSION to the empty string.
http.sslCipherList
A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL connection. The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl was built against NSS
or OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto library in use. Internally this sets the CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST option; see
the libcurl documentation for more details on the format of this list.
Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST environment variable. To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list and ignore any
explicit http.sslCipherList option, set GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST to the empty string.
http.sslVerify
Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Defaults to true. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY
environment variable.
http.sslCert
File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CERT environment variable.
http.sslKey
File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_KEY environment variable.
http.sslCertPasswordProtected
Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times, if the certificate
or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED environment variable.
http.sslCAInfo
File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CAINFO
environment variable.
http.sslCAPath
Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_CAPATH environment variable.
http.pinnedpubkey
Public key of the https service. It may either be the filename of a PEM or DER encoded public key file or a string starting with
sha256// followed by the base64 encoded sha256 hash of the public key. See also libcurl CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY. git will exit with an
error if this option is set but not supported by cURL.
http.sslTry
Attempt to use AUTH SSL/TLS and encrypted data transfers when connecting via regular FTP protocol. This might be needed if the FTP
server requires it for security reasons or you wish to connect securely whenever remote FTP server supports it. Default is false since
it might trigger certificate verification errors on misconfigured servers.
http.maxRequests
How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS environment variable. Default is 5.
http.minSessions
The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept across requests. They will not be ended with curl_easy_cleanup() until
http_cleanup() is invoked. If USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this value will be capped at 1. Defaults to 1.
http.postBuffer
Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP transports when POSTing data to the remote system. For requests larger than this
buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is
sufficient for most requests.
http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime
If the HTTP transfer speed is less than http.lowSpeedLimit for longer than http.lowSpeedTime seconds, the transfer is aborted. Can be
overridden by the GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT and GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME environment variables.
http.noEPSV
A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl. This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't support EPSV
mode. Can be overridden by the GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV environment variable. Default is false (curl will use EPSV).
http.userAgent
The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default value represents the version of the client Git such as git/1.7.1.
This option allows you to override this value to a more common value such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if
connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP connections to a set of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like
git/1.7.1). Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT environment variable.
http.followRedirects
Whether git should follow HTTP redirects. If set to true, git will transparently follow any redirect issued by a server it encounters.
If set to false, git will treat all redirects as errors. If set to initial, git will follow redirects only for the initial request to a
remote, but not for subsequent follow-up HTTP requests. Since git uses the redirected URL as the base for the follow-up requests, this
is generally sufficient. The default is initial.
http.<url>.*
Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to some URLs. For a config key to match a URL, each element of the config
key is compared to that of the URL, in the following order:
1. Scheme (e.g., https in https://example.com/). This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
2. Host/domain name (e.g., example.com in https://example.com/). This field must match between the config key and the URL. It is
possible to specify a * as part of the host name to match all subdomains at this level. https://*.example.com/ for example would
match https://foo.example.com/, but not https://foo.bar.example.com/.
3. Port number (e.g., 8080 in http://example.com:8080/). This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL. Omitted
port numbers are automatically converted to the correct default for the scheme before matching.
4. Path (e.g., repo.git in https://example.com/repo.git). The path field of the config key must match the path field of the URL either
exactly or as a prefix of slash-delimited path elements. This means a config key with path foo/ matches URL path foo/bar. A prefix
can only match on a slash (/) boundary. Longer matches take precedence (so a config key with path foo/bar is a better match to URL
path foo/bar than a config key with just path foo/).
5. User name (e.g., user in https://user@example.com/repo.git). If the config key has a user name it must match the user name in the
URL exactly. If the config key does not have a user name, that config key will match a URL with any user name (including none), but
at a lower precedence than a config key with a user name.
The list above is ordered by decreasing precedence; a URL that matches a config key's path is preferred to one that matches its user
name. For example, if the URL is https://user@example.com/foo/bar a config key match of https://example.com/foo will be preferred over
a config key match of https://user@example.com.
All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the password part, if embedded in the URL, is always ignored for matching
purposes) so that equivalent URLs that are simply spelled differently will match properly. Environment variable settings always
override any matches. The URLs that are matched against are those given directly to Git commands. This means any URLs visited as a
result of a redirection do not participate in matching.
ssh.variant
By default, Git determines the command line arguments to use based on the basename of the configured SSH command (configured using the
environment variable GIT_SSH or GIT_SSH_COMMAND or the config setting core.sshCommand). If the basename is unrecognized, Git will
attempt to detect support of OpenSSH options by first invoking the configured SSH command with the -G (print configuration) option and
will subsequently use OpenSSH options (if that is successful) or no options besides the host and remote command (if it fails).
The config variable ssh.variant can be set to override this detection. Valid values are ssh (to use OpenSSH options), plink, putty,
tortoiseplink, simple (no options except the host and remote command). The default auto-detection can be explicitly requested using the
value auto. Any other value is treated as ssh. This setting can also be overridden via the environment variable GIT_SSH_VARIANT.
The current command-line parameters used for each variant are as follows:
o ssh - [-p port] [-4] [-6] [-o option] [username@]host command
o simple - [username@]host command
o plink or putty - [-P port] [-4] [-6] [username@]host command
o tortoiseplink - [-P port] [-4] [-6] -batch [username@]host command
Except for the simple variant, command-line parameters are likely to change as git gains new features.
i18n.commitEncoding
Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself does not care per se, but this information is necessary e.g. when
importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history browser (and possibly at other places in the future or in other
porcelains). See e.g. git-mailinfo(1). Defaults to utf-8.
i18n.logOutputEncoding
Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when running git log and friends.
imap
The configuration variables in the imap section are described in 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 git-init(1).)
instaweb.browser
Specify the program that will be used to browse your working repository in gitweb. See git-instaweb(1).
instaweb.httpd
The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working repository. See git-instaweb(1).
instaweb.local
If true the web server started by git-instaweb(1) will be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
instaweb.modulePath
The default module path for git-instaweb(1) to use instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd is Apache.
instaweb.port
The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See git-instaweb(1).
interactive.singleKey
In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter). Currently this is
used by the --patch mode of git-add(1), git-checkout(1), git-commit(1), git-reset(1), and git-stash(1). Note that this setting is
silently ignored if portable keystroke input is not available; requires the Perl module Term::ReadKey.
interactive.diffFilter
When an interactive command (such as git add --patch) shows a colorized diff, git will pipe the diff through the shell command defined
by this configuration variable. The command may mark up the diff further for human consumption, provided that it retains a one-to-one
correspondence with the lines in the original diff. Defaults to disabled (no filtering).
log.abbrevCommit
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and git-whatchanged(1) assume --abbrev-commit. You may override this option with
--no-abbrev-commit.
log.date
Set the default date-time mode for the log command. Setting a value for log.date is similar to using git log's --date option. See git-
log(1) for details.
log.decorate
Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log command. If short is specified, the ref name prefixes refs/heads/,
refs/tags/ and refs/remotes/ will not be printed. If full is specified, the full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. If auto
is specified, then if the output is going to a terminal, the ref names are shown as if short were given, otherwise no ref names are
shown. This is the same as the --decorate option of the git log.
log.follow
If true, git log will act as if the --follow option was used when a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations as --follow,
i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files and does not work well on non-linear history.
log.graphColors
A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to draw history lines in git log --graph.
log.showRoot
If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree. Tools like git-
log(1) or git-whatchanged(1), which normally hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
log.showSignature
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and git-whatchanged(1) assume --show-signature.
log.mailmap
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and git-whatchanged(1) assume --use-mailmap.
mailinfo.scissors
If true, makes git-mailinfo(1) (and therefore git-am(1)) act by default as if the --scissors option was provided on the command-line.
When active, this features removes everything from the message body before a scissors line (i.e. consisting mainly of ">8", "8<" and
"-").
mailmap.file
The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded first, then the
mailmap file pointed to by this variable. The location of the mailmap file may be in a repository subdirectory, or somewhere outside of
the repository itself. See git-shortlog(1) and git-blame(1).
mailmap.blob
Like mailmap.file, but consider the value as a reference to a blob in the repository. If both mailmap.file and mailmap.blob are given,
both are parsed, with entries from mailmap.file taking precedence. In a bare repository, this defaults to HEAD:.mailmap. In a non-bare
repository, it defaults to empty.
man.viewer
Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the man format. See git-help(1).
man.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the man page passed as
argument. (See git-help(1).)
man.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to display help in the man format. See git-help(1).
merge.conflictStyle
Specify the style in which conflicted hunks are written out to working tree files upon merge. The default is "merge", which shows a
<<<<<<< conflict marker, changes made by one side, a ======= marker, changes made by the other side, and then a >>>>>>> marker. An
alternate style, "diff3", adds a ||||||| marker and the original text before the ======= marker.
merge.defaultToUpstream
If merge is called without any commit argument, merge the upstream branches configured for the current branch by using their last
observed values stored in their remote-tracking branches. The values of the branch.<current branch>.merge that name the branches at the
remote named by branch.<current branch>.remote are consulted, and then they are mapped via remote.<remote>.fetch to their corresponding
remote-tracking branches, and the tips of these tracking branches are merged.
merge.ff
By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when merging a commit that is a descendant of the current commit. Instead, the
tip of the current branch is fast-forwarded. When set to false, this variable tells Git to create an extra merge commit in such a case
(equivalent to giving the --no-ff option from the command line). When set to only, only such fast-forward merges are allowed
(equivalent to giving the --ff-only option from the command line).
merge.verifySignatures
If true, this is equivalent to the --verify-signatures command line option. See git-merge(1) for details.
merge.branchdesc
In addition to branch names, populate the log message with the branch description text associated with them. Defaults to false.
merge.log
In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the actual
commits that are being merged. Defaults to false, and true is a synonym for 20.
merge.renameLimit
The number of files to consider when performing rename detection during a merge; if not specified, defaults to the value of
diff.renameLimit.
merge.renormalize
Tell Git that canonical representation of files in the repository has changed over time (e.g. earlier commits record text files with
CRLF line endings, but recent ones use LF line endings). In such a repository, Git can convert the data recorded in commits to a
canonical form before performing a merge to reduce unnecessary conflicts. For more information, see section "Merging branches with
differing checkin/checkout attributes" in gitattributes(5).
merge.stat
Whether to print the diffstat between ORIG_HEAD and the merge result at the end of the merge. True by default.
merge.tool
Controls which merge tool is used by git-mergetool(1). The list below shows the valid built-in values. Any other value is treated as a
custom merge tool and requires that a corresponding mergetool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined.
o araxis
o bc
o bc3
o codecompare
o deltawalker
o diffmerge
o diffuse
o ecmerge
o emerge
o examdiff
o gvimdiff
o gvimdiff2
o gvimdiff3
o kdiff3
o meld
o opendiff
o p4merge
o tkdiff
o tortoisemerge
o vimdiff
o vimdiff2
o vimdiff3
o winmerge
o xxdiff
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 the GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY environment variable.
merge.<driver>.name
Defines a human-readable name for a custom low-level merge driver. See gitattributes(5) for details.
merge.<driver>.driver
Defines the command that implements a custom low-level merge driver. See 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 gitattributes(5) for details.
mergetool.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH.
mergetool.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the following variables
available: BASE is the name of a temporary file containing the common base of the files to be merged, if available; LOCAL is the name
of a temporary file containing the contents of the file on the current branch; REMOTE is the name of a temporary file containing the
contents of the file from the branch being merged; MERGED contains the name of the file to which the merge tool should write the
results of a successful merge.
mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode
For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge was
successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to have been successful if
the file has been updated, otherwise the user is prompted to indicate the success of the merge.
mergetool.meld.hasOutput
Older versions of meld do not support the --output option. Git will attempt to detect whether meld supports --output by inspecting the
output of meld --help. Configuring mergetool.meld.hasOutput will make Git skip these checks and use the configured value instead.
Setting mergetool.meld.hasOutput to true tells Git to unconditionally use the --output option, and false avoids using --output.
mergetool.keepBackup
After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers can be saved as a file with a .orig extension. If this variable 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.writeToTemp
Git writes temporary BASE, LOCAL, and REMOTE versions of conflicting files in the worktree by default. Git will attempt to use a
temporary directory for these files when set true. Defaults to false.
mergetool.prompt
Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
notes.mergeStrategy
Which merge strategy to choose by default when resolving notes conflicts. Must be one of manual, ours, theirs, union, or cat_sort_uniq.
Defaults to manual. See "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section of git-notes(1) for more information on each strategy.
notes.<name>.mergeStrategy
Which merge strategy to choose when doing a notes merge into refs/notes/<name>. This overrides the more general "notes.mergeStrategy".
See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES" section in git-notes(1) for more information on the available strategies.
notes.displayRef
The (fully qualified) refname from which to show notes when showing commit messages. The value of this variable can be set to a glob,
in which case notes from all matching refs will be shown. You may also specify this configuration variable several times. A warning
will be issued for refs that do not exist, but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored.
This setting can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
globs.
The effective value of "core.notesRef" (possibly overridden by 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.
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, cat_sort_uniq, 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. Set it to refs/notes/commits to enable
rewriting for the default commit notes.
This setting can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of refs or
globs.
pack.window
The size of the window used by git-pack-objects(1) when no window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
pack.depth
The maximum delta depth used by git-pack-objects(1) when no maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
pack.windowMemory
The maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread in git-pack-objects(1) for pack window memory when no limit is given on the
command line. The value can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". When left unconfigured (or set explicitly to 0), there will be no limit.
pack.compression
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, and 1..9
are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is not set, defaults to -1, the
zlib default, which is "a default compromise between speed and compression (currently equivalent to level 6)."
Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress all existing objects. You can force recompression by passing
the -F option to git-repack(1).
pack.deltaCacheSize
The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in git-pack-objects(1) before writing them out to a pack. This cache is used to
speed up the writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta result once the best match for all objects is found.
Repacking large repositories on machines which are tight with memory might be badly impacted by this though, especially if this cache
pushes the system into swapping. A value of 0 means no limit. The smallest size of 1 byte may be used to virtually disable this cache.
Defaults to 256 MiB.
pack.deltaCacheLimit
The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in git-pack-objects(1). This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not
having to recompute the final delta result once the best match for all objects is found. Defaults to 1000.
pack.threads
Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best delta matches. This requires that git-pack-objects(1) be compiled with
pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on multiprocessor machines. The required
amount of memory for the delta search window is however multiplied by the number of threads. Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect
the number of CPU's and set the number of threads accordingly.
pack.indexVersion
Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for the new
pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB as well as proper protection against the repacking of corrupted packs. Version
2 is the default. Note that version 2 is enforced and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is larger than 2 GB.
If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 *.idx file, cloning or fetching over a non native protocol (e.g. "http")
that will copy both *.pack file and corresponding *.idx file from the other side may give you a repository that cannot be accessed with
your older version of Git. If the *.pack file is smaller than 2 GB, however, you can use git-index-pack(1) on the *.pack file to
regenerate the *.idx file.
pack.packSizeLimit
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 git-repack(1). Reaching this limit results in the creation of multiple packfiles; which
in turn prevents bitmaps from being created. The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. The default is unlimited. Common unit
suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
pack.useBitmaps
When true, git will use pack bitmaps (if available) when packing to stdout (e.g., during the server side of a fetch). Defaults to true.
You should not generally need to turn this off unless you are debugging pack bitmaps.
pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated)
This is a deprecated synonym for repack.writeBitmaps.
pack.writeBitmapHashCache
When true, git will include a "hash cache" section in the bitmap index (if one is written). This cache can be used to feed git's delta
heuristics, potentially leading to better deltas between bitmapped and non-bitmapped objects (e.g., when serving a fetch between an
older, bitmapped pack and objects that have been pushed since the last gc). The downside is that it consumes 4 bytes per object of disk
space, and that JGit's bitmap implementation does not understand it, causing it to complain if Git and JGit are used on the same
repository. Defaults to false.
pager.<cmd>
If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty. Otherwise,
turns on pagination for the subcommand using the pager specified by the value of pager.<cmd>. If --paginate or --no-pager is specified
on the command line, it takes precedence over this option. To disable pagination for all commands, set core.pager or GIT_PAGER to cat.
pretty.<name>
Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in git-log(1). Any aliases defined here can be used just as the built-in pretty
formats could. For example, running git config pretty.changelog "format:* %H %s" would cause the invocation git log --pretty=changelog
to be equivalent to running git log "--pretty=format:* %H %s". Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format will be
silently ignored.
protocol.allow
If set, provide a user defined default policy for all protocols which don't explicitly have a policy (protocol.<name>.allow). By
default, if unset, known-safe protocols (http, https, git, ssh, file) have a default policy of always, known-dangerous protocols (ext)
have a default policy of never, and all other protocols have a default policy of user. Supported policies:
o always - protocol is always able to be used.
o never - protocol is never able to be used.
o user - protocol is only able to be used when GIT_PROTOCOL_FROM_USER is either unset or has a value of 1. This policy should be used
when you want a protocol to be directly usable by the user but don't want it used by commands which execute clone/fetch/push
commands without user input, e.g. recursive submodule initialization.
protocol.<name>.allow
Set a policy to be used by protocol <name> with clone/fetch/push commands. See protocol.allow above for the available policies.
The protocol names currently used by git are:
o file: any local file-based path (including file:// URLs, or local paths)
o git: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP connection (or proxy, if configured)
o ssh: git over ssh (including host:path syntax, ssh://, etc).
o http: git over http, both "smart http" and "dumb http". Note that this does not include https; if you want to configure both, you
must do so individually.
o any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use hg to allow the git-remote-hg helper)
protocol.version
Experimental. If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a server using the specified protocol version. If unset, no attempt will
be made by the client to communicate using a particular protocol version, this results in protocol version 0 being used. Supported
versions:
o 0 - the original wire protocol.
o 1 - the original wire protocol with the addition of a version string in the initial response from the server.
pull.ff
By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when merging a commit that is a descendant of the current commit. Instead, the
tip of the current branch is fast-forwarded. When set to false, this variable tells Git to create an extra merge commit in such a case
(equivalent to giving the --no-ff option from the command line). When set to only, only such fast-forward merges are allowed
(equivalent to giving the --ff-only option from the command line). This setting overrides merge.ff when pulling.
pull.rebase
When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when "git pull"
is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a per-branch basis.
When preserve, also pass --preserve-merges along to git rebase so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened by running
git pull.
When the value is interactive, the rebase is run in interactive mode.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless you understand the implications (see git-rebase(1) for details).
pull.octopus
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches at once.
pull.twohead
The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
push.default
Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is explicitly given. Different values are well-suited for specific workflows; for
instance, in a purely central workflow (i.e. the fetch source is equal to the push destination), upstream is probably what you want.
Possible values are:
o nothing - do not push anything (error out) unless a refspec is explicitly given. This is primarily meant for people who want to
avoid mistakes by always being explicit.
o current - push the current branch to update a branch with the same name on the receiving end. Works in both central and non-central
workflows.
o upstream - push the current branch back to the branch whose changes are usually integrated into the current branch (which is called
@{upstream}). This mode only makes sense if you are pushing to the same repository you would normally pull from (i.e. central
workflow).
o tracking - This is a deprecated synonym for upstream.
o simple - in centralized workflow, work like upstream with an added safety to refuse to push if the upstream branch's name is
different from the local one.
When pushing to a remote that is different from the remote you normally pull from, work as current. This is the safest option and
is suited for beginners.
This mode has become the default in Git 2.0.
o matching - push all branches having the same name on both ends. This makes the repository you are pushing to remember the set of
branches that will be pushed out (e.g. if you always push maint and master there and no other branches, the repository you push to
will have these two branches, and your local maint and master will be pushed there).
To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure all the branches you would push out are ready to be pushed out before running
git push, as the whole point of this mode is to allow you to push all of the branches in one go. If you usually finish work on only
one branch and push out the result, while other branches are unfinished, this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not suitable
for pushing into a shared central repository, as other people may add new branches there, or update the tip of existing branches
outside your control.
This used to be the default, but not since Git 2.0 (simple is the new default).
push.followTags
If set to true enable --follow-tags option by default. You may override this configuration at time of push by specifying
--no-follow-tags.
push.gpgSign
May be set to a boolean value, or the string if-asked. A true value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if --signed is passed to
git-push(1). The string if-asked causes pushes to be signed if the server supports it, as if --signed=if-asked is passed to git push. A
false value may override a value from a lower-priority config file. An explicit command-line flag always overrides this config option.
push.pushOption
When no --push-option=<option> argument is given from the command line, git push behaves as if each <value> of this variable is given
as --push-option=<value>.
This is a multi-valued variable, and an empty value can be used in a higher priority configuration file (e.g. .git/config in a
repository) to clear the values inherited from a lower priority configuration files (e.g. $HOME/.gitconfig).
Example:
/etc/gitconfig push.pushoption = a push.pushoption = b
~/.gitconfig push.pushoption = c
repo/.git/config push.pushoption = push.pushoption = b
This will result in only b (a and c are cleared).
push.recurseSubmodules
Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be pushed are available on a remote-tracking branch. If the value is check
then Git will verify that all submodule commits that changed in the revisions to be pushed are available on at least one remote of the
submodule. If any commits are missing, the push will be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If the value is on-demand then all
submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary revisions it will
also be aborted and exit with non-zero status. If the value is no then default behavior of ignoring submodules when pushing is
retained. You may override this configuration at time of push by specifying --recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no.
rebase.stat
Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase. False by default.
rebase.autoSquash
If set to true enable --autosquash option by default.
rebase.autoStash
When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash entry before the operation begins, and apply it after the operation ends. This
means that you can run rebase on a dirty worktree. However, use with care: the final stash application after a successful rebase might
result in non-trivial conflicts. This option can be overridden by the --no-autostash and --autostash options of git-rebase(1). Defaults
to false.
rebase.missingCommitsCheck
If set to "warn", git rebase -i will print a warning if some commits are removed (e.g. a line was deleted), however the rebase will
still proceed. If set to "error", it will print the previous warning and stop the rebase, git rebase --edit-todo can then be used to
correct the error. If set to "ignore", no checking is done. To drop a commit without warning or error, use the drop command in the todo
list. Defaults to "ignore".
rebase.instructionFormat
A format string, as specified in git-log(1), to be used for the todo list during an interactive rebase. The format will automatically
have the long commit hash prepended to the format.
rebase.abbreviateCommands
If set to true, git rebase will use abbreviated command names in the todo list resulting in something like this:
p deadbee The oneline of the commit
p fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
...
instead of:
pick deadbee The oneline of the commit
pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
...
Defaults to false.
receive.advertiseAtomic
By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise this capability,
set this variable to false.
receive.advertisePushOptions
When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options capability to its clients. False by default.
receive.autogc
By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop it by setting
this variable to false.
receive.certNonceSeed
By setting this variable to a string, git receive-pack will accept a git push --signed and verifies it by using a "nonce" protected by
HMAC using this string as a secret key.
receive.certNonceSlop
When a git push --signed sent a push certificate with a "nonce" that was issued by a receive-pack serving the same repository within
this many seconds, export the "nonce" found in the certificate to GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE to the hooks (instead of what the receive-pack
asked the sending side to include). This may allow writing checks in pre-receive and post-receive a bit easier. Instead of checking
GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP environment variable that records by how many seconds the nonce is stale to decide if they want to accept the
certificate, they only can check GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS is OK.
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. If not set, the value of transfer.fsckObjects is used
instead.
receive.fsck.<msg-id>
When receive.fsckObjects is set to true, errors can be switched to warnings and vice versa by configuring the receive.fsck.<msg-id>
setting where the <msg-id> is the fsck message ID and the value is one of error, warn or ignore. For convenience, fsck prefixes the
error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing email" means that setting
receive.fsck.missingEmail = ignore will hide that issue.
This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories which would not pass pushing when receive.fsckObjects = true,
allowing the host to accept repositories with certain known issues but still catch other issues.
receive.fsck.skipList
The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should be
ignored. This feature is useful when an established project should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that can be
safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses. Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting.
receive.keepAlive
After receiving the pack from the client, receive-pack may produce no output (if --quiet was specified) while processing the pack,
causing some networks to drop the TCP connection. With this option set, if receive-pack does not transmit any data in this phase for
receive.keepAlive seconds, it will send a short keepalive packet. The default is 5 seconds; set to 0 to disable keepalives entirely.
receive.unpackLimit
If the number of objects received in a push is below this limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object files. However if
the number of received objects equals or exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as a pack, after adding any missing
delta bases. Storing the pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the
value of transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
receive.maxInputSize
If the size of the incoming pack stream is larger than this limit, then git-receive-pack will error out, instead of accepting the pack
file. If not set or set to 0, then the size is unlimited.
receive.denyDeletes
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via a push.
receive.denyDeleteCurrent
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
receive.denyCurrentBranch
If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository. Such
a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD 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 "refuse".
Another option is "updateInstead" which will update the working tree if pushing into the current branch. This option is intended for
synchronizing working directories when one side is not easily accessible via interactive ssh (e.g. a live web site, hence the
requirement that the working directory be clean). This mode also comes in handy when developing inside a VM to test and fix code on
different Operating Systems.
By default, "updateInstead" will refuse the push if the working tree or the index have any difference from the HEAD, but the
push-to-checkout hook can be used to customize this. See githooks(5).
receive.denyNonFastForwards
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent such an update via a push,
even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is set when initializing a shared repository.
receive.hideRefs
This variable is the same as transfer.hideRefs, but applies only to receive-pack (and so affects pushes, but not fetches). An attempt
to update or delete a hidden ref by git push is rejected.
receive.updateServerInfo
If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info after receiving data from git-push and updating refs.
receive.shallowUpdate
If set to true, .git/shallow can be updated when new refs require new shallow roots. Otherwise those refs are rejected.
remote.pushDefault
The remote to push to by default. Overrides branch.<name>.remote for all branches, and is overridden by branch.<name>.pushRemote for
specific branches.
remote.<name>.url
The URL of a remote repository. See git-fetch(1) or git-push(1).
remote.<name>.pushurl
The push URL of a remote repository. See git-push(1).
remote.<name>.proxy
For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL to the proxy to use for that remote. Set to the empty string to disable
proxying for that remote.
remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod
For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the method to use for authenticating against the proxy in use (probably set in
remote.<name>.proxy). See http.proxyAuthMethod.
remote.<name>.fetch
The default set of "refspec" for git-fetch(1). See git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.push
The default set of "refspec" for git-push(1). See git-push(1).
remote.<name>.mirror
If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave as if the --mirror option was given on the command line.
remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating using git-fetch(1) or the update subcommand of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.skipFetchAll
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating using git-fetch(1) or the update subcommand of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.receivepack
The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See option --receive-pack of git-push(1).
remote.<name>.uploadpack
The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See option --upload-pack of git-fetch-pack(1).
remote.<name>.tagOpt
Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag following when 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. Passing these flags directly to git-fetch(1) can
override this setting. See options --tags and --no-tags of git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.vcs
Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper.
remote.<name>.prune
When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also remove any remote-tracking references that no longer exist on the
remote (as if the --prune option was given on the command line). Overrides fetch.prune settings, if any.
remote.<name>.pruneTags
When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will also remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote if pruning is
activated in general via remote.<name>.prune, fetch.prune or --prune. Overrides fetch.pruneTags settings, if any.
See also remote.<name>.prune and the PRUNING section of git-fetch(1).
remotes.<group>
The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See git-remote(1).
repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
By default, git-repack(1) creates packs that use delta-base offset. If you need to share your repository with Git older than version
1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb protocol such as http, then you need to set this option to "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 git-repack(1) for details. Defaults to false normally,
but true if a bitmap index is being written (either via --write-bitmap-index or repack.writeBitmaps).
repack.writeBitmaps
When true, git will write a bitmap index when packing all objects to disk (e.g., when git repack -a is run). This index can speed up
the "counting objects" phase of subsequent packs created for clones and fetches, at the cost of some disk space and extra time spent on
the initial repack. This has no effect if multiple packfiles are created. Defaults to false.
rerere.autoUpdate
When set to true, git-rerere updates the index with the resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using previously
recorded resolution. Defaults to false.
rerere.enabled
Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical conflict hunks can be resolved automatically, should they be encountered
again. By default, git-rerere(1) is enabled if there is an rr-cache directory under the $GIT_DIR, e.g. if "rerere" was previously used
in the repository.
sendemail.identity
A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the sendemail.<identity> subsection to take precedence over values in the
sendemail section. The default identity is the value of sendemail.identity.
sendemail.smtpEncryption
See git-send-email(1) for description. Note that this setting is not subject to the identity mechanism.
sendemail.smtpssl (deprecated)
Deprecated alias for sendemail.smtpEncryption = ssl.
sendemail.smtpsslcertpath
Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file). Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification.
sendemail.<identity>.*
Identity-specific versions of the sendemail.* parameters found below, taking precedence over those when this identity is selected,
through either the command-line or sendemail.identity.
sendemail.aliasesFile, sendemail.aliasFileType, sendemail.annotate, sendemail.bcc, sendemail.cc, sendemail.ccCmd, sendemail.chainReplyTo,
sendemail.confirm, sendemail.envelopeSender, sendemail.from, sendemail.multiEdit, sendemail.signedoffbycc, sendemail.smtpPass,
sendemail.suppresscc, sendemail.suppressFrom, sendemail.to, sendemail.tocmd, sendemail.smtpDomain, sendemail.smtpServer,
sendemail.smtpServerPort, sendemail.smtpServerOption, sendemail.smtpUser, sendemail.thread, sendemail.transferEncoding, sendemail.validate,
sendemail.xmailer
See git-send-email(1) for description.
sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)
Deprecated alias for sendemail.signedoffbycc.
sendemail.smtpBatchSize
Number of messages to be sent per connection, after that a relogin will happen. If the value is 0 or undefined, send all messages in
one connection. See also the --batch-size option of git-send-email(1).
sendemail.smtpReloginDelay
Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server. See also the --relogin-delay option of git-send-email(1).
showbranch.default
The default set of branches for git-show-branch(1). See git-show-branch(1).
splitIndex.maxPercentChange
When the split index feature is used, this specifies the percent of entries the split index can contain compared to the total number of
entries in both the split index and the shared index before a new shared index is written. The value should be between 0 and 100. If
the value is 0 then a new shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new shared index is never written. By default the value is 20,
so a new shared index is written if the number of entries in the split index would be greater than 20 percent of the total number of
entries. See git-update-index(1).
splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire
When the split index feature is used, shared index files that were not modified since the time this variable specifies will be removed
when a new shared index file is created. The value "now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration altogether.
The default value is "2.weeks.ago". Note that a shared index file is considered modified (for the purpose of expiration) each time a
new split-index file is either created based on it or read from it. See git-update-index(1).
status.relativePaths
By default, git-status(1) shows paths relative to the current directory. Setting this variable to false shows paths relative to the
repository root (this was the default for Git prior to v1.5.4).
status.short
Set to true to enable --short by default in git-status(1). The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable.
status.branch
Set to true to enable --branch by default in git-status(1). The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable.
status.displayCommentPrefix
If set to true, git-status(1) will insert a comment prefix before each output line (starting with core.commentChar, i.e. # by
default). This was the behavior of git-status(1) in Git 1.8.4 and previous. Defaults to false.
status.showStash
If set to true, git-status(1) will display the number of entries currently stashed away. Defaults to false.
status.showUntrackedFiles
By default, git-status(1) and git-commit(1) show files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which contain only untracked
files, are shown with the directory name only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all the files in the whole
repository, which might be slow on some systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays the untracked files. Possible
values are:
o no - Show no untracked files.
o normal - Show untracked files and directories.
o all - Show also individual files in untracked directories.
If this variable is not specified, it defaults to normal. This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option of git-
status(1) and git-commit(1).
status.submoduleSummary
Defaults to false. If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an unlimited number), the submodule summary will be
enabled and a summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see --summary-limit option of git-submodule(1)). Please note
that the summary output command will be suppressed for all submodules when diff.ignoreSubmodules is set to all or only for those
submodules where submodule.<name>.ignore=all. The only exception to that rule is that status and commit will show staged submodule
changes. To also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use the --ignore-submodules=dirty command-line option or the
git submodule summary command, which shows a similar output but does not honor these settings.
stash.showPatch
If this is set to true, the git stash show command without an option will show the stash entry in patch form. Defaults to false. See
description of show command in git-stash(1).
stash.showStat
If this is set to true, the git stash show command without an option will show diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to true. See
description of show command in git-stash(1).
submodule.<name>.url
The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the .gitmodules file to the git config via git submodule init. The user can
change the configured URL before obtaining the submodule via git submodule update. If neither submodule.<name>.active or
submodule.active are set, the presence of this variable is used as a fallback to indicate whether the submodule is of interest to git
commands. See git-submodule(1) and gitmodules(5) for details.
submodule.<name>.update
The method by which a submodule is updated by git submodule update, which is the only affected command, others such as git checkout
--recurse-submodules are unaffected. It exists for historical reasons, when git submodule was the only command to interact with
submodules; settings like submodule.active and pull.rebase are more specific. It is populated by git submodule init from the
gitmodules(5) file. See description of update command in git-submodule(1).
submodule.<name>.branch
The remote branch name for a submodule, used by git submodule update --remote. Set this option to override the value found in the
.gitmodules file. See git-submodule(1) and gitmodules(5) for details.
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". This setting will override that from in the 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 modified (but it will nonetheless show up in the output of status and commit when it has been staged), "dirty" will ignore
all changes to the submodules work tree and takes only differences between the HEAD of the submodule and the commit recorded in the
superproject into account. "untracked" will additionally let submodules with modified tracked files in their work tree show up. Using
"none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as changed. This
setting overrides any setting made in .gitmodules for this submodule, both settings can be overridden on the command line by using the
"--ignore-submodules" option. The git submodule commands are not affected by this setting.
submodule.<name>.active
Boolean value indicating if the submodule is of interest to git commands. This config option takes precedence over the submodule.active
config option.
submodule.active
A repeated field which contains a pathspec used to match against a submodule's path to determine if the submodule is of interest to git
commands.
submodule.recurse
Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This applies to all commands that have a --recurse-submodules option, except
clone. Defaults to false.
submodule.fetchJobs
Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same time. A positive integer allows up to that number of submodules fetched in
parallel. A value of 0 will give some reasonable default. If unset, it defaults to 1.
submodule.alternateLocation
Specifies how the submodules obtain alternates when submodules are cloned. Possible values are no, superproject. By default no is
assumed, which doesn't add references. When the value is set to superproject the submodule to be cloned computes its alternates
location relative to the superprojects alternate.
submodule.alternateErrorStrategy
Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a submodule as computed via submodule.alternateLocation. Possible values are
ignore, info, die. Default is die.
tag.forceSignAnnotated
A boolean to specify whether annotated tags created should be GPG signed. If --annotate is specified on the command line, it takes
precedence over this option.
tag.sort
This variable controls the sort ordering of tags when displayed by git-tag(1). Without the "--sort=<value>" option provided, the value
of this variable will be used as the default.
tar.umask
This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002, which turns off the world write
bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user's umask will be used instead. See umask(2) and git-archive(1).
transfer.fsckObjects
When fetch.fsckObjects or receive.fsckObjects are not set, the value of this variable is used instead. Defaults to false.
transfer.hideRefs
String(s) receive-pack and upload-pack use to decide which refs to omit from their initial advertisements. Use more than one definition
to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that is under the hierarchies listed in the value of this variable is excluded, and is hidden
when responding to git push or git fetch. See receive.hideRefs and uploadpack.hideRefs for program-specific versions of this config.
You may also include a ! in front of the ref name to negate the entry, explicitly exposing it, even if an earlier entry marked it as
hidden. If you have multiple hideRefs values, later entries override earlier ones (and entries in more-specific config files override
less-specific ones).
If a namespace is in use, the namespace prefix is stripped from each reference before it is matched against transfer.hiderefs patterns.
For example, if refs/heads/master is specified in transfer.hideRefs and the current namespace is foo, then
refs/namespaces/foo/refs/heads/master is omitted from the advertisements but refs/heads/master and
refs/namespaces/bar/refs/heads/master are still advertised as so-called "have" lines. In order to match refs before stripping, add a ^
in front of the ref name. If you combine ! and ^, ! must be specified first.
Even if you hide refs, a client may still be able to steal the target objects via the techniques described in the "SECURITY" section of
the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it's best to keep private data in a separate repository.
transfer.unpackLimit
When fetch.unpackLimit or receive.unpackLimit are 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 git-upload-archive(1) for more details. Defaults to false.
uploadpack.hideRefs
This variable is the same as transfer.hideRefs, but applies only to upload-pack (and so affects only fetches, not pushes). An attempt
to fetch a hidden ref by git fetch will fail. See also uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant.
uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant
When uploadpack.hideRefs is in effect, allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request that asks for an object at the tip of a hidden ref
(by default, such a request is rejected). See also uploadpack.hideRefs. Even if this is false, a client may be able to steal objects
via the techniques described in the "SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it's best to keep private data in a separate
repository.
uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant
Allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request that asks for an object that is reachable from any ref tip. However, note that calculating
object reachability is computationally expensive. Defaults to false. Even if this is false, a client may be able to steal objects via
the techniques described in the "SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it's best to keep private data in a separate
repository.
uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant
Allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request that asks for any object at all. Defaults to false.
uploadpack.keepAlive
When upload-pack has started pack-objects, there may be a quiet period while pack-objects prepares the pack. Normally it would output
progress information, but if --quiet was used for the fetch, pack-objects will output nothing at all until the pack data begins. Some
clients and networks may consider the server to be hung and give up. Setting this option instructs upload-pack to send an empty
keepalive packet every uploadpack.keepAlive seconds. Setting this option to 0 disables keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5
seconds.
uploadpack.packObjectsHook
If this option is set, when upload-pack would run git pack-objects to create a packfile for a client, it will run this shell command
instead. The pack-objects command and arguments it would have run (including the git pack-objects at the beginning) are appended to the
shell command. The stdin and stdout of the hook are treated as if pack-objects itself was run. I.e., upload-pack will feed input
intended for pack-objects to the hook, and expects a completed packfile on stdout.
uploadpack.allowFilter
If this option is set, upload-pack will support partial clone and partial fetch object filtering.
Note that this configuration variable is ignored if it is seen in the repository-level config (this is a safety measure against
fetching from untrusted repositories).
url.<base>.insteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves a large number of
repositories, and serves them with multiple access methods, and some users need to use different access methods, this feature allows
people to specify any of the equivalent URLs and have Git automatically rewrite the URL to the best alternative for the particular
user, even for a never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is
used.
Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the rewritten URL. If the rewrite changes the URL to use a custom protocol or
remote helper, you may need to adjust the protocol.*.allow config to permit the request. In particular, protocols you expect to use for
submodules must be set to always rather than the default of user. See the description of protocol.allow above.
url.<base>.pushInsteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to; instead, it will be rewritten to start with <base>, and the resulting URL
will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple access methods, some
of which do not allow push, this feature allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have Git automatically use an appropriate URL to
push, even for a never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one pushInsteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest
match is used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will ignore this setting for that remote.
user.email
Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, and
EMAIL environment variables. See git-commit-tree(1).
user.name
Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and GIT_COMMITTER_NAME environment
variables. See git-commit-tree(1).
user.useConfigOnly
Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for user.email and user.name, and instead retrieve the values only from the
configuration. For example, if you have multiple email addresses and would like to use a different one for each repository, then with
this configuration option set to true in the global config along with a name, Git will prompt you to set up an email before making new
commits in a newly cloned repository. Defaults to false.
user.signingKey
If git-tag(1) or git-commit(1) is not selecting the key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or commit, you can
override the default selection with this variable. This option is passed unchanged to gpg's --local-user parameter, so you may specify
a key using any method that gpg supports.
versionsort.prereleaseSuffix (deprecated)
Deprecated alias for versionsort.suffix. Ignored if versionsort.suffix is set.
versionsort.suffix
Even when version sort is used in git-tag(1), tagnames with the same base version but different suffixes are still sorted
lexicographically, resulting e.g. in prerelease tags appearing after the main release (e.g. "1.0-rc1" after "1.0"). This variable can
be specified to determine the sorting order of tags with different suffixes.
By specifying a single suffix in this variable, any tagname containing that suffix will appear before the corresponding main release.
E.g. if the variable is set to "-rc", then all "1.0-rcX" tags will appear before "1.0". If specified multiple times, once per suffix,
then the order of suffixes in the configuration will determine the sorting order of tagnames with those suffixes. E.g. if "-pre"
appears before "-rc" in the configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be listed before any "1.0-rcX" tags. The placement of the main
release tag relative to tags with various suffixes can be determined by specifying the empty suffix among those other suffixes. E.g. if
the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck" and "-bfs" appear in the configuration in this order, then all "v4.8-rcX" tags are listed first, followed
by "v4.8", then "v4.8-ckX" and finally "v4.8-bfsX".
If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that tagname will be sorted according to the suffix which starts at the earliest
position in the tagname. If more than one different matching suffixes start at that earliest position, then that tagname will be sorted
according to the longest of those suffixes. The sorting order between different suffixes is undefined if they are in multiple config
files.
web.browser
Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands. Currently only git-instaweb(1) and git-help(1) may use it.
worktree.guessRemote
With add, if no branch argument, and neither of -b nor -B nor --detach are given, the command defaults to creating a new branch from
HEAD. If worktree.guessRemote is set to true, worktree add tries to find a remote-tracking branch whose name uniquely matches the new
branch name. If such a branch exists, it is checked out and set as "upstream" for the new branch. If no such match can be found, it
falls back to creating a new branch from the current HEAD.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 2.17.1 10/05/2018 GIT-CONFIG(1)