# # This is the config file, and # a '#' or ';' character indicates # a comment #
git-config - Get and set repository or global options
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
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 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 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:
The section or key is invalid (ret=1),
no section or name was provided (ret=2),
the config file is invalid (ret=3),
the config file cannot be written (ret=4),
you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5),
you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), or
you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6).
On success, the command returns the exit code 0.
Default behavior is to replace at most one line. This replaces all lines matching the key (and optionally the value_regex).
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 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.
Like get, but returns all values for a multi-valued key.
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.
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.
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 FILES.
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 FILES.
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 FILES.
Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG.
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 the given section from the configuration file.
Rename the given section to a new name.
Remove the line matching the key from config file.
Remove all lines matching the key from config file.
List all variables set in config file, along with their values.
git config
will ensure that the output is "true" or "false"
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.
git config
will ensure that the output matches the format of either --bool or --int, as described above.
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).
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.
Output only the names of config variables for --list
or --get-regexp
.
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).
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.
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
.
Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either --system
, --global
, or repository (default).
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.
If not set explicitly with --file
, there are four files where git config
will search for configuration options:
System-wide configuration file.
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.
User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" configuration file.
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.
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.
Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig file. See git[1] for details.
See also FILES.
Given a .git/config like this:
# # This is the config file, and # a '#' or ';' character indicates # a comment #
; core variables [core] ; Don't trust file modes filemode = false
; Our diff algorithm [diff] external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper renames = true
; Proxy settings [core] gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
; HTTP [http] sslVerify [http "https://weak.example.com"] sslVerify = false cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt
you can set the filemode to true with
% git config core.filemode true
The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern what URL they apply to. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org to "ssh".
% git config core.gitproxy '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$'
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
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.
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 (doublequote "
and backslash can be included by escaping them as \"
and \\
, respectively). 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: \n
for newline character (NL), \t
for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB) and \b
for backspace (BS). Other char escape sequences (including octal escape sequences) are invalid.
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.
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:
If the pattern starts with ~/
, ~
will be substituted with the content of the environment variable HOME
.
If the pattern starts with ./
, it is replaced with the directory containing the current config file.
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
.
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
:
Symlinks in $GIT_DIR
are not resolved before matching.
Both the symlink & realpath versions of paths will be matched outside of $GIT_DIR
. E.g. if ~/git is a symlink to /mnt/storage/git, both gitdir:~/git
and gitdir:/mnt/storage/git
will match.
This was not the case in the initial release of this feature in v2.13.0, which only matched the realpath version. Configuration that wants to be compatible with the initial release of this feature needs to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions.
Note that "../" is not special and will match literally, which is unlikely what you want.
# Core variables [core] ; Don't trust file modes filemode = false
# Our diff algorithm [diff] external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper renames = true
[branch "devel"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/devel
# Proxy settings [core] gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org" gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
[include] path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$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 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.
When a variable is said to take a boolean value, many synonyms are accepted for true
and false
; these are all case-insensitive.
Boolean true literals are yes
, on
, true
, and 1
. Also, a variable defined without = <value>
is taken as true.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
:
Set this variable to false
if you want to disable pushNonFFCurrent
, pushNonFFMatching
, pushAlreadyExists
, pushFetchFirst
, and pushNeedsForce
simultaneously.
Advice shown when git-push[1] fails due to a non-fast-forward update to the current branch.
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.
Shown when git-push[1] rejects an update that does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.)
Shown when git-push[1] rejects an update that tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an object we do not have.
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.
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.
Advise to consider using the -u
option to git-status[1] when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked files.
Advice shown when git-merge[1] refuses to merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
Advice shown by various commands when conflicts prevent the operation from being performed.
Advice on how to set your identity configuration when your information is guessed from the system username and domain name.
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.
Advice that shows the location of the patch file when git-am[1] fails to apply it.
In case of failure in the output of git-rm[1], show directions on how to proceed from the current state.
Advice on what to do when you’ve accidentally added one git repo inside of another.
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).
(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
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used. See git-update-index[1]. False by default.
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.
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.
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. \t
for TAB, \n
for LF, \\
for backslash) or bytes with values larger than 0x80 (e.g. octal \302\265
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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).
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.
Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout version.
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.
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.
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
.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
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].
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.
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).
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).
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.
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
.
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
):
blank-at-eol
treats trailing whitespaces at the end of the line as an error (enabled by default).
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).
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).
tab-in-indent
treats a tab character in the initial indent part of the line as an error (not enabled by default).
blank-at-eof
treats blank lines added at the end of file as an error (enabled by default).
trailing-space
is a short-hand to cover both blank-at-eol
and blank-at-eof
.
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).
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.
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").
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.
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.
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].
Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in git-read-tree[1] for more information.
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.
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.
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].
If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format with parameter --keep-cr
. In this case git-mailsplit will not remove \r
from lines ending with \r\n
. Can be overridden by giving --no-keep-cr
from the command line. See git-am[1], git-mailsplit[1].
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].
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].
Tells git apply
how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the --whitespace
option. See git-apply[1].
Do not treat root commits as boundaries in git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false.
Show blank commit object name for boundary commits in git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false.
Show the author email instead of author name in git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false.
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 description, can be edited with git branch --edit-description
. Branch description is automatically added in the format-patch cover letter or request-pull summary.
Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed as arguments. (See git-web{litdd}browse[1].)
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]).
A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, -i or -n. Defaults to true.
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).
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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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 (--
)
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).
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.
A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in use (default is true).
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).
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).
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).
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.
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
Specify whether to output branch listing in git branch
in columns. See column.ui
for details.
Specify the layout when list items in git clean -i
, which always shows files and directories in columns. See column.ui
for details.
Specify whether to output untracked files in git status
in columns. See column.ui
for details.
Specify whether to output tag listing in git tag
in columns. See column.ui
for details.
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).
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.
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.
Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for new commit messages.
A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with git commit
. See git-commit[1].
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.
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.
If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and gitcredentials[7].
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.
Tell git-credential-cache—daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting.
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
.
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.
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
.
Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies to all commands generating --stat output except format-patch.
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default of 3. This value is overridden by the -U option.
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.
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.
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.
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).
If set, git diff
does not show any source or destination prefix.
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.
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent to the git diff
option -l
.
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].
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
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".
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.
The custom diff driver command. See gitattributes[5] for details.
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.
Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as binary. See gitattributes[5] for details.
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.
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to split words in a line. See gitattributes[5] for details.
Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text conversion outputs. See gitattributes[5] for details.
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.
araxis
bc
bc3
codecompare
deltawalker
diffmerge
diffuse
ecmerge
emerge
examdiff
gvimdiff
gvimdiff2
gvimdiff3
kdiff3
kompare
meld
opendiff
p4merge
tkdiff
vimdiff
vimdiff2
vimdiff3
winmerge
xxdiff
Set this option to true
to enable experimental heuristics that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to read.
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".
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.
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH.
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.
Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the --prune
option was given on the command line. See also remote.<name>.prune
.
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.
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].
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.
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].
Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See git-format-patch[1].
Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See the --to and --cc options in git-format-patch[1].
The default for format-patch is to output files with the [PATCH]
subject prefix. Use this variable to change that prefix.
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.
Works just like format.signature except the contents of the file specified by this variable will be used as the signature.
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).
The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, See git-log[1], git-show[1], git-whatchanged[1].
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.
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.
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.
Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the current working directory.
A boolean value which lets you enable the --base=auto
option of format-patch by default.
The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree file to a blob upon checkin. See gitattributes[5] for details.
The command which is used to convert the content of a blob object to a worktree file upon checkout. See gitattributes[5] for details.
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.
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.
The depth parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by git gc --aggressive
. This defaults to 50.
The window size parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by git gc --aggressive
. This defaults to 250.
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.
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.
Make git gc --auto
return immediately and run in background if the system supports it. Default is true.
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.
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
.
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].
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.
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>.
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>.
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].
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].
Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS emulator".
Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository. See git-cvsserver[1].
Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well… logs various stuff. See git-cvsserver[1].
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].
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
.
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
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].
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).
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.
See gitweb[1] for description.
See gitweb.conf[5] for description.
If set to true, enable -n
option by default.
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.
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
.
Number of grep worker threads to use. See grep.threads
in git-grep[1] for more information.
If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
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.
Defines how wide the commit message window is in the git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff made by the git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
Determines if git-gui[1] shows untracked files in the file list. The default is "true".
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.
Determines if new branches created with git-gui[1] should default to tracking remote branches with matching names or not. Default: "false".
Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the git-gui[1].
"true" if git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
Determines if git-gui[1] should trust the file modification timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.
Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in the git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned off.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees that FILENAME
is not empty.
Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its output.
Don’t rescan the working directory for changes after the tool finishes execution.
Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
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.
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.
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.
Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default is the tool name.
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.
Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the web
format. See git-help[1].
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.
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.
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.
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
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:
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.
basic
- HTTP Basic authentication
digest
- HTTP Digest authentication; this prevents the password from being transmitted to the proxy in clear text
negotiate
- GSS-Negotiate authentication (compare the --negotiate option of curl(1)
)
ntlm
- NTLM authentication (compare the --ntlm option of curl(1)
)
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.
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:
none
- Don’t allow any delegation.
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.
always
- Unconditionally allow the server to delegate.
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.
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.
If set, store cookies received during requests to the file specified by http.cookieFile. Has no effect if http.cookieFile is unset.
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:
sslv2
sslv3
tlsv1
tlsv1.0
tlsv1.1
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.
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.
Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY
environment variable.
File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CERT
environment variable.
File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_KEY
environment variable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS
environment variable. Default is 5.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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
.
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:
Scheme (e.g., https
in https://example.com/
). This field must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
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/
.
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.
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/
).
User name (e.g., user
in https://[email protected]/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://[email protected]/foo/bar
a config key match of https://example.com/foo
will be preferred over a config key match of https://[email protected]
.
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.
Depending on the value of the environment variables GIT_SSH
or GIT_SSH_COMMAND
, or the config setting core.sshCommand
, Git auto-detects whether to adjust its command-line parameters for use with plink or tortoiseplink, as opposed to the default (OpenSSH).
The config variable ssh.variant
can be set to override this auto-detection; valid values are ssh
, plink
, putty
or tortoiseplink
. Any other value will be treated as normal ssh. This setting can be overridden via the environment variable GIT_SSH_VARIANT
.
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
.
Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when running git log
and friends.
The configuration variables in the imap
section are described in git-imap-send[1].
Specify the version with which new index files should be initialized. This does not affect existing repositories.
Specify the directory from which templates will be copied. (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of git-init[1].)
Specify the program that will be used to browse your working repository in gitweb. See git-instaweb[1].
The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working repository. See git-instaweb[1].
If true the web server started by git-instaweb[1] will be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
The default module path for git-instaweb[1] to use instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd is Apache.
The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See git-instaweb[1].
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.
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).
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
.
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.
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
.
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.
A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to draw history lines in git log --graph
.
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.
If true, makes git-log[1], git-show[1], and git-whatchanged[1] assume --show-signature
.
If true, makes git-log[1], git-show[1], and git-whatchanged[1] assume --use-mailmap
.
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 "-").
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].
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.
Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the man
format. See git-help[1].
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].)
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to display help in the man
format. See git-help[1].
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.
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.
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).
In addition to branch names, populate the log message with the branch description text associated with them. Defaults to false.
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.
The number of files to consider when performing rename detection during a merge; if not specified, defaults to the value of diff.renameLimit.
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].
Whether to print the diffstat between ORIG_HEAD and the merge result at the end of the merge. True by default.
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.
araxis
bc
bc3
codecompare
deltawalker
diffmerge
diffuse
ecmerge
emerge
examdiff
gvimdiff
gvimdiff2
gvimdiff3
kdiff3
meld
opendiff
p4merge
tkdiff
tortoisemerge
vimdiff
vimdiff2
vimdiff3
winmerge
xxdiff
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.
Defines a human-readable name for a custom low-level merge driver. See gitattributes[5] for details.
Defines the command that implements a custom low-level merge driver. See gitattributes[5] for details.
Names a low-level merge driver to be used when performing an internal merge between common ancestors. See gitattributes[5] for details.
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH.
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.
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.
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
.
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).
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
.
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
.
Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The size of the window used by git-pack-objects[1] when no window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
The maximum delta depth used by git-pack-objects[1] when no maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This is a deprecated synonym for repack.writeBitmaps
.
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.
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
.
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.
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:
always
- protocol is always able to be used.
never
- protocol is never able to be used.
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.
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:
file
: any local file-based path (including file://
URLs, or local paths)
git
: the anonymous git protocol over a direct TCP connection (or proxy, if configured)
ssh
: git over ssh (including host:path
syntax, ssh://
, etc).
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.
any external helpers are named by their protocol (e.g., use hg
to allow the git-remote-hg
helper)
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.
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).
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches at once.
The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
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:
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.
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.
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).
tracking
- This is a deprecated synonym for upstream
.
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.
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).
If set to true enable --follow-tags
option by default. You may override this configuration at time of push by specifying --no-follow-tags
.
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.
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
.
Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase. False by default.
If set to true enable --autosquash
option by default.
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. Defaults to false.
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".
A format string, as specified in git-log[1], to be used for the instruction list during an interactive rebase. The format will automatically have the long commit hash prepended to the format.
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.
When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push options capability to its clients. False by default.
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.
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.
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
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare repository.
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].
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.
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.
If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info after receiving data from git-push and updating refs.
If set to true, .git/shallow can be updated when new refs require new shallow roots. Otherwise those refs are rejected.
The remote to push to by default. Overrides branch.<name>.remote
for all branches, and is overridden by branch.<name>.pushRemote
for specific branches.
The URL of a remote repository. See git-fetch[1] or git-push[1].
The push URL of a remote repository. See git-push[1].
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.
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
.
The default set of "refspec" for git-fetch[1]. See git-fetch[1].
The default set of "refspec" for git-push[1]. See git-push[1].
If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave as if the --mirror
option was given on the command line.
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating using git-fetch[1] or the update
subcommand of git-remote[1].
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating using git-fetch[1] or the update
subcommand of git-remote[1].
The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See option --receive-pack of git-push[1].
The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See option --upload-pack of git-fetch-pack[1].
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].
Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper.
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.
The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See git-remote[1].
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.
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
).
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.
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.
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.
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
.
See git-send-email[1] for description. Note that this setting is not subject to the identity
mechanism.
Deprecated alias for sendemail.smtpEncryption = ssl
.
Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single file). Set it to an empty string to disable certificate verification.
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
.
See git-send-email[1] for description.
Deprecated alias for sendemail.signedoffbycc
.
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].
Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server. See also the --relogin-delay
option of git-send-email[1].
The default set of branches for git-show-branch[1]. See git-show-branch[1].
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].
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].
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).
Set to true to enable --short by default in git-status[1]. The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable.
Set to true to enable --branch by default in git-status[1]. The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable.
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.
If set to true, git-status[1] will display the number of entries currently stashed away. Defaults to false.
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:
no
- Show no untracked files.
normal
- Show untracked files and directories.
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].
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.
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].
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].
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
Boolean value indicating if the submodule is of interest to git commands. This config option takes precedence over the submodule.active config option.
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.
Specifies if commands recurse into submodules by default. This applies to all commands that have a --recurse-submodules
option. Defaults to false.
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.
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.
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
.
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.
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.
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].
When fetch.fsckObjects
or receive.fsckObjects
are not set, the value of this variable is used instead. Defaults to false.
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.
When fetch.unpackLimit
or receive.unpackLimit
are not set, the value of this variable is used instead. The default value is 100.
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
.
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
.
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.
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.
Allow upload-pack
to accept a fetch request that asks for any object at all. Defaults to false
.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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].
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].
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
.
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.
Deprecated alias for versionsort.suffix
. Ignored if versionsort.suffix
is set.
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.
Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands. Currently only git-instaweb[1] and git-help[1] may use it.
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