GIT-CONFIG(1) Git Manual GIT-CONFIG(1)
NAME
git-config - Get and set repository or global options
SYNOPSIS
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-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] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
git config [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
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>] [-z|--null] -l | --list
git config [<file-option>] --get-color name [default]
git config [<file-option>] --get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
git config [<file-option>] -e | --edit
DESCRIPTION
You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is actually the section and the key
separated by a dot, and the value will be escaped.
Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the --add option. If you want to update or unset an option
which can occur on multiple lines, a POSIX regexp value_regex needs to be given. Only the existing values that
match the regexp are updated or unset. If you want to handle the lines that do not match the regex, just
prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also the section called “EXAMPLES”).
The type specifier can be either --int or --bool, to make git config ensure that the variable(s) are of the
given type and convert the value to the canonical form (simple decimal number for int, a "true" or "false"
string for bool), or --path, which does some path expansion (see --path below). If no type specifier is
passed, no checks or transformations are performed on the value.
When reading, the values are read from the system, global and repository local configuration files by default,
and options --system, --global, --local and --file <filename> can be used to tell the command to read from
only that location (see the section called “FILES”).
When writing, the new value is written to the repository local configuration file by default, and options
--system, --global, --file <filename> can be used to tell the command to write to that location (you can say
--local but that is the default).
This command will fail with non-zero status upon error. Some exit codes are:
1. The config file is invalid (ret=3),
2. can not write to the config file (ret=4),
3. no section or name was provided (ret=2),
4. the section or key is invalid (ret=1),
5. you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5),
6. you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match (ret=5), or
--get
Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex matching the value). Returns error code 1 if
the key was not found and error code 2 if multiple key values were found.
--get-all
Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key is not exactly one.
--get-regexp
Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression and writes out the key names. Regular
expression matching is currently case-sensitive and done against a canonicalized version of the key in
which section and variable names are lowercased, but subsection names are not.
--global
For writing options: write to global /.gitconfig file rather than the repository .git/config, write to
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if this file exists and the/.gitconfig file doesn’t.
For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig and from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config rather than
from all available files.
See also the section called “FILES”.
--system
For writing options: write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than the repository .git/config.
For reading options: read only from system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than from all available
files.
See also the section called “FILES”.
-f config-file, --file config-file
Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG.
--remove-section
Remove the given section from the configuration file.
--rename-section
Rename the given section to a new name.
--unset
Remove the line matching the key from config file.
--unset-all
Remove all lines matching the key from config file.
-l, --list
List all variables set in config file.
--bool
git config will ensure that the output is "true" or "false"
--int
git config will ensure that the output is a simple decimal number. An optional value suffix of k, m, or g
in the config file will cause the value to be multiplied by 1024, 1048576, or 1073741824 prior to output.
output without getting confused e.g. by values that contain line breaks.
--get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
Find the color setting for name (e.g. color.diff) and output "true" or "false". stdout-is-tty should be
either "true" or "false", and is taken into account when configuration says "auto". If stdout-is-tty is
missing, then checks the standard output of the command itself, and exits with status 0 if color is to be
used, or exits with status 1 otherwise. When the color setting for name is undefined, the command uses
color.ui as fallback.
--get-color name [default]
Find the color configured for name (e.g. color.diff.new) and output it as the ANSI color escape sequence
to the standard output. The optional default parameter is used instead, if there is no color configured
for name.
-e, --edit
Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either --system, --global, or repository (default).
--[no-]includes
Respect include.* directives in config files when looking up values. Defaults to on.
FILES
If not set explicitly with --file, there are four files where git config will search for configuration
options:
$GIT_DIR/config
Repository specific configuration file.
~/.gitconfig
User-specific configuration file. Also called "global" configuration file.
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config
Second user-specific configuration file. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/config
will be used. Any single-valued variable set in this file will be overwritten by whatever is in
~/.gitconfig. It is a good idea not to create this file if you sometimes use older versions of Git, as
support for this file was added fairly recently.
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
System-wide configuration file.
If no further options are given, all reading options will read all of these files that are available. If the
global or the system-wide configuration file are not available they will be ignored. If the repository
configuration file is not available or readable, git config will exit with a non-zero error code. However, in
neither case will an error message be issued.
All writing options will per default write to the repository specific configuration file. Note that this also
affects options like --replace-all and --unset. git config will only ever change one file at a time.
You can override these rules either by command line options or by environment variables. The --global and the
--system options will limit the file used to the global or system-wide file respectively. The GIT_CONFIG
environment variable has a similar effect, but you can specify any filename you want.
ENVIRONMENT
GIT_CONFIG
Take the configuration from the given file instead of .git/config. Using the "--global" option forces this
# This is the config file, and
# a '#' or ';' character indicates
# a comment
#
; core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
; Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
; Proxy settings
[core]
gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org
gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest
you can set the filemode to true with
% git config core.filemode true
The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern what URL they apply to. Here is how
to change the entry for kernel.org to "ssh".
% git config core.gitproxy '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$'
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$"
However, if you really only want to replace the line for the default proxy, i.e. the one without a "for ..."
postfix, do something like this:
% git config core.gitproxy ssh '! for '
To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to
% git config section.key value '[!]'
To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use
% git config --add core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'
An example to use customized color from the configuration in your script:
#!/bin/sh
WS=$(git config --get-color color.diff.whitespace "blue reverse")
RESET=$(git config --get-color "" "reset")
echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}"
CONFIGURATION FILE
The Git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the Git commands' behavior. The
.git/config file in each repository is used to store the configuration for that repository, and
$HOME/.gitconfig is used to store a per-user configuration as fallback values for the .git/config file. The
file /etc/gitconfig can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.
The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided
into sections, wherein the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last dot-separated
segment and the section name is everything before the last dot. The variable names are case-insensitive, allow
only alphanumeric characters and -, and must start with an alphabetic character. Some variables may appear
multiple times.
Syntax
The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly ignored. The # and ; characters begin
comments to the end of line, blank lines are ignored.
The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with the name of the section in square brackets
and continues until the next section begins. Section names are not case sensitive. 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
have to be escaped 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
Leading and trailing whitespace in a variable value is discarded. Internal whitespace within a variable value
is retained verbatim.
The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either a string, an integer, or a boolean.
Boolean values may be given as yes/no, 1/0, true/false or on/off. Case is not significant in boolean values,
when converting value to the canonical form using --bool type specifier; git config will ensure that the
output is "true" or "false".
String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes. You need to enclose variable values in
double quotes if you want to preserve leading or trailing whitespace, or if the variable value contains
comment characters (i.e. it contains # or ;). Double quote " and backslash \ characters in variable values
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). No other char escape sequence, nor octal char
sequences are valid.
Variable values ending in a \ are continued on the next line in the customary UNIX fashion.
Some variables may require a special value format.
Includes
You can include one config file from another by setting the special include.path variable to the name of the
file to be included. The included file is expanded immediately, as if its contents had been found at the
location of the include directive. If the value of the include.path variable is a relative path, the path is
considered to be relative to the configuration file in which the include directive was found. The value of
include.path is subject to tilde expansion: ~/ is expanded to the value of $HOME, and ~user/ to the specified
user’s home directory. See below for examples.
Example
# Core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
# Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
[branch "devel"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/devel
# Proxy settings
[core]
gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
[include]
path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
path = foo ; expand "foo" relative to the current file
path = ~/foo ; expand "foo" in your $HOME directory
pushNonFFCurrent
Advice shown when git-push(1) fails due to a non-fast-forward update to the current branch.
pushNonFFDefault
Advice to set push.default to upstream or current when you ran git-push(1) and pushed matching refs by
default (i.e. you did not provide an explicit refspec, and no push.default configuration was set) and
it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
pushNonFFMatching
Advice shown when you ran git-push(1) and pushed matching refs explicitly (i.e. you used :, or
specified a refspec that isn’t your current branch) and it resulted in a non-fast-forward error.
pushAlreadyExists
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.)
pushFetchFirst
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an object
we do not have.
pushNeedsForce
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an object
that is not a committish, or make the remote ref point at an object that is not a committish.
statusHints
Show directions on how to proceed from the current state in the output of git-status(1), in the
template shown when writing commit messages in git-commit(1), and in the help message shown by git-
checkout(1) when switching branch.
statusUoption
Advise to consider using the -u option to git-status(1) when the command takes more than 2 seconds to
enumerate untracked files.
commitBeforeMerge
Advice shown when git-merge(1) refuses to merge to avoid overwriting local changes.
resolveConflict
Advice shown by various commands when conflicts prevent the operation from being performed.
implicitIdentity
Advice on how to set your identity configuration when your information is guessed from the system
username and domain name.
detachedHead
Advice shown when you used git-checkout(1) to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create
a local branch after the fact.
amWorkDir
Advice that shows the location of the patch file when git-am(1) fails to apply it.
core.fileMode
If false, the executable bit differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful on
broken filesystems like FAT. See git-update-index(1).
If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable Git to work better on filesystems that are not
case sensitive, like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds "makefile" when Git expects
"Makefile", Git will assume it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as "Makefile".
The default is false, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.ignorecase true if
appropriate when the repository is created.
core.precomposeunicode
This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git. When core.precomposeunicode=true, Git reverts
the unicode decomposition of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository between
Mac OS and Linux or Windows. (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7). When
false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, which is backward compatible with older versions
of Git.
core.trustctime
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful when the inode
change time is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system crawlers and some backup systems).
See git-update-index(1). True by default.
core.checkstat
Determines which stat fields to match between the index and work tree. The user can set this to default or
minimal. Default (or explicitly default), is to check all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime
and ctime.
core.quotepath
The commands that output paths (e.g. ls-files, diff), when not given the -z option, will quote "unusual"
characters in the pathname by enclosing the pathname in a double-quote pair and with backslashes the same
way strings in C source code are quoted. If this variable is set to false, the bytes higher than 0x80 are
not quoted but output as verbatim. Note that double quote, backslash and control characters are always
quoted without -z regardless of the setting of this variable.
core.eol
Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for files that have the text property set.
Alternatives are lf, crlf and native, which uses the platform’s native line ending. The default value is
native. See gitattributes(5) for more information on end-of-line conversion.
core.safecrlf
If true, makes Git check if converting CRLF is reversible when end-of-line conversion is active. Git will
verify if a command modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly. For example,
committing a file followed by checking out the same file should yield the original file in the work tree.
If this is not the case for the current setting of core.autocrlf, Git will reject the file. The variable
can be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an irreversible conversion but continue the
operation.
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF to LF
during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the
commit cannot be recreated by Git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings
such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. But for binary files that are accidentally
classified as text the conversion can corrupt data.
If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by setting the conversion type explicitly in
.gitattributes. Right after committing you still have the original file in your work tree and this file is
not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell Git that this file is binary and Git will handle the file
appropriately.
core.autocrlf
Setting this variable to "true" is almost the same as setting the text attribute to "auto" on all files
except that text files are not guaranteed to be normalized: files that contain CRLF in the repository will
not be touched. Use this setting if you want to have CRLF line endings in your working directory even
though the repository does not have normalized line endings. This variable can be set to input, in which
case no output conversion is performed.
core.symlinks
If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that contain the link text. git-update-
index(1) and git-add(1) will not change the recorded type to regular file. Useful on filesystems like FAT
that do not support symbolic links.
The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will probe and set core.symlinks false if
appropriate when the repository is created.
core.gitProxy
A "proxy command" to execute (as command host port) instead of establishing direct connection to the
remote server when using the Git protocol for fetching. If the variable value is in the "COMMAND for
DOMAIN" format, the command is applied only on hostnames ending with the specified domain string. This
variable may be set multiple times and is matched in the given order; the first match wins.
Can be overridden by the GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment variable (which always applies universally, without
the special "for" handling).
The special string none can be used as the proxy command to specify that no proxy be used for a given
domain pattern. This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from proxy use, while defaulting to
a common proxy for external domains.
core.ignoreStat
If true, commands which modify both the working tree and the index will mark the updated paths with the
"assume unchanged" bit in the index. These marked files are then assumed to stay unchanged in the working
tree, until you mark them otherwise manually - Git will not detect the file changes by lstat() calls. This
is useful on systems where those are very slow, such as Microsoft Windows. See git-update-index(1). False
by default.
core.preferSymlinkRefs
Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links.
This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that expect HEAD to be a symbolic link.
core.bare
If true this repository is assumed to be bare and has no working directory associated with it. If this is
the case a number of commands that require a working directory will be disabled, such as git-add(1) or
git-merge(1).
This setting is automatically guessed by git-clone(1) or git-init(1) when the repository was created. By
default a repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare (bare = false), while all other
repositories are assumed to be bare (bare = true).
core.worktree
Set the path to the root of the working tree. 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
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.
This information can be used to determine what commit was the tip of a branch "2 days ago".
This value is true by default in a repository that has a working directory associated with it, and false
by default in a bare repository.
core.repositoryFormatVersion
Internal variable identifying the repository format and layout version.
core.sharedRepository
When group (or true), the repository is made shareable between several users in a group (making sure all
the files and objects are group-writable). When all (or world or everybody), the repository will be
readable by all users, additionally to being group-shareable. When umask (or false), Git will use
permissions reported by umask(2). When 0xxx, where 0xxx is an octal number, files in the repository will
have this mode value. 0xxx will override user’s umask value (whereas the other options will only override
requested parts of the user’s umask value). Examples: 0660 will make the repo read/write-able for the
owner and group, but inaccessible to others (equivalent to group unless umask is e.g. 0022). 0640 is a
repository that is group-readable but not group-writable. See git-init(1). False by default.
core.warnAmbiguousRefs
If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the
repository. True by default.
core.compression
An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression,
and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If set, this provides a default to other
compression variables, such as core.loosecompression and pack.compression.
core.loosecompression
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib
default. 0 means no compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If not set,
defaults to core.compression. If that is not set, defaults to 1 (best speed).
core.packedGitWindowSize
Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may
allow your system to process a smaller number of large pack files more quickly. Smaller window sizes will
negatively affect performance due to increased calls to the operating system’s memory manager, but may
improve performance when accessing a large number of large pack files.
Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64
bit platforms. This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do not need to
adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.packedGitLimit
Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory from pack files. If Git needs to access more
than this many bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing regions to reclaim virtual
address space within the process.
Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 8 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should be reasonable for all
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.bigFileThreshold
Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without attempting delta compression. Storing large files
without delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the slight expense of increased disk usage.
Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable for most projects as source code and other
text files can still be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won’t be.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.excludesfile
In addition to .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude, Git looks into this file for patterns of
files which are not meant to be tracked. "~/" is expanded to the value of $HOME and "~user/" to the
specified user’s home directory. Its default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is
either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead. See gitignore(5).
core.askpass
Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask for a password can be told to use an
external program given via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the GIT_ASKPASS environment
variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the SSH_ASKPASS environment variable or, failing that, a
simple password prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as command line argument and
write the password on its STDOUT.
core.attributesfile
In addition to .gitattributes (per-directory) and .git/info/attributes, Git looks into this file for
attributes (see gitattributes(5)). Path expansions are made the same way as for core.excludesfile. Its
default value is $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty,
$HOME/.config/git/attributes is used instead.
core.editor
Commands such as commit and tag that lets you edit messages by launching an editor uses the value of this
variable when it is set, and the environment variable GIT_EDITOR is not set. See git-var(1).
core.commentchar
Commands such as commit and tag that lets you edit messages consider a line that begins with this
character commented, and removes them after the editor returns (default #).
sequence.editor
Text editor used by git rebase -i for editing the rebase instruction file. The value is meant to be
interpreted by the shell when it is used. It can be overridden by the GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR environment
variable. When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead.
core.pager
The command that Git will use to paginate output. Can be overridden with the GIT_PAGER environment
variable. Note that Git sets the LESS environment variable to FRSX if it is unset when it runs the pager.
One can change these settings by setting the LESS variable to some other value. Alternately, these
settings can be overridden on a project or global basis by setting the core.pager option. Setting
core.pager has no effect on the LESS environment variable behaviour above, so if you want to override
Git’s default settings this way, you need to be explicit. For example, to disable the S option in a
backward compatible manner, set core.pager to less -+S. This will be passed to the shell by Git, which
will translate the final command to LESS=FRSX less -+S.
core.whitespace
· 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.
core.fsyncobjectfiles
This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files.
This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders data writes properly, but can be
useful for filesystems that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal
metadata and not file contents (OS X’s HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
core.preloadindex
Enable parallel index preload for operations like git diff
This can speed up operations like git diff and git status especially on filesystems like NFS that have
weak caching semantics and thus relatively high IO latencies. With this set to true, Git will do the index
comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing overlapping IO’s.
core.createObject
You can set this to link, in which case a hardlink followed by a delete of the source are used to make
sure that object creation will not overwrite existing objects.
On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable. Set this config setting to rename
there; However, This will remove the check that makes sure that existing object files will not get
overwritten.
core.notesRef
When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in the given ref. The ref must be fully
qualified. If the given ref does not exist, it is not an error but means that no notes should be printed.
This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by the GIT_NOTES_REF environment
variable. See git-notes(1).
core.sparseCheckout
Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in git-read-tree(1) for more information.
core.abbrev
Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If unspecified, many commands abbreviate to 7 hexdigits,
which may not be enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for sufficiently long time.
add.ignore-errors, add.ignoreErrors
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). Older versions of Git accept only add.ignore-errors, which
top-level directory of a repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory. GIT_PREFIX is
set as returned by running git rev-parse --show-prefix from the original current directory. See git-rev-
parse(1).
am.keepcr
If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox format with parameter --keep-cr. In this case
git-mailsplit will not remove \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).
apply.ignorewhitespace
When set to change, tells git apply to ignore changes in whitespace, in the same way as the
--ignore-space-change option. When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells git apply to respect all
whitespace differences. See git-apply(1).
apply.whitespace
Tells git apply how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the --whitespace option. See git-apply(1).
branch.autosetupmerge
Tells git branch and git checkout to set up new branches so that git-pull(1) will appropriately merge from
the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this behavior can be chosen
per-branch using the --track and --no-track options. The valid settings are: false — no automatic setup is
done; true — automatic setup is done when the starting point is a remote-tracking branch; always —
automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote-tracking branch. This
option defaults to true.
branch.autosetuprebase
When a new branch is created with git branch or git checkout that tracks another branch, this variable
tells Git to set up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch.<name>.rebase"). When never, rebase is
never automatically set to true. When local, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of other local
branches. When remote, rebase is set to true for tracked branches of remote-tracking branches. When
always, rebase will be set to true for all tracking branches. See "branch.autosetupmerge" for details on
how to set up a branch to track another branch. This option defaults to never.
branch.<name>.remote
When on branch <name>, it tells git fetch and git push which remote to fetch from/push to. The remote to
push to may be overridden with remote.pushdefault (for all branches). The remote to push to, for the
current branch, may be further overridden by branch.<name>.pushremote. If no remote is configured, or if
you are not on any branch, it defaults to origin for fetching and remote.pushdefault for pushing.
branch.<name>.pushremote
When on branch <name>, it overrides branch.<name>.remote for pushing. It also overrides remote.pushdefault
for pushing from branch <name>. When you pull from one place (e.g. your upstream) and push to another
place (e.g. your own publishing repository), you would want to set remote.pushdefault to specify the
remote to push to for all branches, and use this option to override it for a specific branch.
branch.<name>.merge
Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream branch for the given branch. It tells git
fetch/git pull/git rebase which branch to merge and can also affect git push (see push.default). When in
branch <name>, it tells git fetch the default refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD. The value is
handled like the remote part of a refspec, and must match a ref which is fetched from the remote given by
"branch.<name>.remote". The merge information is used by git pull (which at first calls git fetch) to
lookup the default branch for merging. Without this option, git pull defaults to merge the first refspec
fetched. Specify multiple values to get an octopus merge. If you wish to setup git pull so that it merges
into <name> from another branch in the local repository, you can point branch.<name>.merge to the desired
git-rebase(1) for details).
branch.<name>.description
Branch description, can be edited with git branch --edit-description. Branch description is automatically
added in the format-patch cover letter or request-pull summary.
browser.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the
URLs passed as arguments. (See git-web--browse(1).)
browser.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to browse HTML help (see -w option in git-help(1))
or a working repository in gitweb (see git-instaweb(1)).
clean.requireForce
A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f or -n. Defaults to true.
color.branch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or never)
or auto (or true), in which case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
color.branch.<slot>
Use customized color for branch coloration. <slot> is one of current (the current branch), local (a local
branch), remote (a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/), upstream (upstream tracking branch), plain
(other refs).
The value for these configuration variables is a list of colors (at most two) and attributes (at most
one), separated by spaces. The colors accepted are normal, black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan
and white; the attributes are bold, dim, ul, blink and reverse. The first color given is the foreground;
the second is the background. The position of the attribute, if any, doesn’t matter.
color.diff
Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches. If this is set to always, git-diff(1), git-
log(1), and git-show(1) will use color for all patches. If it is set to true or auto, those commands will
only use color when output is to the terminal. Defaults to false.
This does not affect git-format-patch(1) nor the git-diff-* plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the
command line with the --color[=<when>] option.
color.diff.<slot>
Use customized color for diff colorization. <slot> specifies which part of the patch to use the specified
color, and is one of plain (context text), meta (metainformation), frag (hunk header), func (function in
hunk header), old (removed lines), new (added lines), commit (commit headers), or whitespace (highlighting
whitespace errors). The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
color.decorate.<slot>
Use customized color for git log --decorate output. <slot> is one of branch, remoteBranch, tag, stash or
HEAD for local branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively.
color.grep
When set to always, always highlight matches. When false (or never), never. When set to true or auto, use
color only when the output is written to the terminal. Defaults to false.
color.grep.<slot>
linenumber
line number prefix (when using -n)
match
matching text
selected
non-matching text in selected lines
separator
separators between fields on a line (:, -, and =) and between hunks (--)
The values of these variables may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
color.interactive
When set to always, always use colors for interactive prompts and displays (such as those used by "git-add
--interactive"). When false (or never), never. When set to true or auto, use colors only when the output
is to the terminal. Defaults to false.
color.interactive.<slot>
Use customized color for git add --interactive output. <slot> may be prompt, header, help or error, for
four distinct types of normal output from interactive commands. The values of these variables may be
specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
color.pager
A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in use (default is true).
color.showbranch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-show-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or
never) or auto (or true), in which case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to
false.
color.status
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of git-status(1). May be set to always, false (or never)
or auto (or true), in which case colors are used only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
color.status.<slot>
Use customized color for status colorization. <slot> is one of header (the header text of the status
message), added or updated (files which are added but not committed), changed (files which are changed but
not added in the index), untracked (files which are not tracked by Git), branch (the current branch), or
nobranch (the color the no branch warning is shown in, defaulting to red). The values of these variables
may be specified as in color.branch.<slot>.
color.ui
This variable determines the default value for variables such as color.diff and color.grep that control
the use of color per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn configuration to set a
default for the --color option. Set it to always if you want all output not intended for machine
consumption to use color, to true or auto if you want such output to use color when written to the
terminal, or to false or never if you prefer Git commands not to use color unless enabled explicitly with
some other configuration or the --color option.
column.ui
Specify whether supported commands should output in columns. This variable consists of a list of tokens
separated by spaces or commas:
row
fill rows before columns
plain
show in one column
dense
make unequal size columns to utilize more space
nodense
make equal size columns
This option defaults to never.
column.branch
Specify whether to output branch listing in git branch in columns. See column.ui for details.
column.status
Specify whether to output untracked files in git status in columns. See column.ui for details.
column.tag
Specify whether to output tag listing in git tag in columns. See column.ui for details.
commit.cleanup
This setting overrides the default of the --cleanup option in git commit. See git-commit(1) for details.
Changing the default can be useful when you always want to keep lines that begin with comment character #
in your log message, in which case you would do git config commit.cleanup whitespace (note that you will
have to remove the help lines that begin with # in the commit log template yourself, if you do this).
commit.status
A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information in the commit message template when using an
editor to prepare the commit message. Defaults to true.
commit.template
Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. "~/" is expanded to the value of $HOME and
"~user/" to the specified user’s home directory.
credential.helper
Specify an external helper to be called when a username or password credential is needed; the helper may
consult external storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. See gitcredentials(7) for
details.
credential.useHttpPath
When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http or https URL to be important.
Defaults to false. See gitcredentials(7) for more information.
credential.username
If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username by default. See
credential.<context>.* below, and gitcredentials(7).
credential.<url>.*
Any of the credential.* options above can be applied selectively to some credentials. For example
"credential.https://example.com.username" would set the default username only for https connections to
changes,noncumulative,3. The following parameters are available:
changes
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been removed from the source, or added to
the destination. This ignores the amount of pure code movements within a file. In other words,
rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes. This is the default behavior when
no parameter is given.
lines
Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff analysis, and summing the
removed/added line counts. (For binary files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary files have no
natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive --dirstat behavior than the changes behavior, but
it does count rearranged lines within a file as much as other changes. The resulting output is
consistent with what you get from the other --*stat options.
files
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed. Each changed file counts equally
in the dirstat analysis. This is the computationally cheapest --dirstat behavior, since it does not
have to look at the file contents at all.
cumulative
Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well. Note that when using cumulative,
the sum of the percentages reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative) behavior can be
specified with the noncumulative parameter.
<limit>
An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default). Directories contributing less than
this percentage of the changes are not shown in the output.
Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring directories with less than 10% of the
total amount of changed files, and accumulating child directory counts in the parent directories:
files,10,cumulative.
diff.statGraphWidth
Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set, applies to all commands generating --stat
output except format-patch.
diff.context
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the default of 3. This value is overridden by the -U
option.
diff.external
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not performed using the internal diff machinery, but
using the given command. Can be overridden with the ‘GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF’ environment variable. The command
is called with parameters as described under "git Diffs" in git(1). Note: if you want to use an external
diff program only on a subset of your files, you might want to use gitattributes(5) instead.
diff.ignoreSubmodules
Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this affects only git diff Porcelain, and not
lower level diff commands such as git diff-files. git checkout also honors this setting when reporting
uncommitted changes.
diff.mnemonicprefix
If set, git diff uses a prefix pair that is different from the standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is
git diff HEAD:file1 file2
compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
git diff --no-index a b
compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
diff.noprefix
If set, git diff does not show any source or destination prefix.
diff.renameLimit
The number of files to consider when performing the copy/rename detection; equivalent to the git diff
option -l.
diff.renames
Tells Git to detect renames. If set to any boolean value, it will enable basic rename detection. If set to
"copies" or "copy", it will detect copies, as well.
diff.suppressBlankEmpty
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a space before each empty output line. Defaults to
false.
diff.submodule
Specify the format in which differences in submodules are shown. The "log" format lists the commits in the
range like git-submodule(1)summary does. The "short" format format just shows the names of the commits at
the beginning and end of the range. Defaults to short.
diff.wordRegex
A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is a "word" when performing word-by-word
difference calculations. Character sequences that match the regular expression are "words", all other
characters are ignorable whitespace.
diff.<driver>.command
The custom diff driver command. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.xfuncname
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to recognize the hunk header. A built-in pattern
may also be used. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.binary
Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files as binary. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.textconv
The command that the diff driver should call to generate the text-converted version of a file. The result
of the conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.wordregex
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to split words in a line. See gitattributes(5) for
details.
diff.<driver>.cachetextconv
Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the text conversion outputs. See gitattributes(5)
for details.
diff.tool
· diffuse
· ecmerge
· emerge
· gvimdiff
· gvimdiff2
· kdiff3
· kompare
· meld
· opendiff
· p4merge
· tkdiff
· vimdiff
· vimdiff2
· xxdiff
diff.algorithm
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
default, myers
The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default.
minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is produced.
patience
Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
histogram
This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support low-occurrence common elements".
difftool.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH.
difftool.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool. The specified command is evaluated in shell with
the following variables available: LOCAL is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents
of the diff pre-image and REMOTE is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents of the
diff post-image.
difftool.prompt
Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.
fetch.unpackLimit
If the number of objects fetched over the Git native transfer is below this limit, then the objects will
be unpacked into loose object files. However if the number of received objects equals or exceeds this
limit then the received pack will be stored as a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the
pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set,
the value of transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
format.attach
Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for format-patch. The value can also be a double quoted
string which will enable attachments as the default and set the value as the boundary. See the --attach
option in git-format-patch(1).
format.numbered
A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in patch subjects. It defaults to "auto" which
enables it only if there is more than one patch. It can be enabled or disabled for all messages by setting
it to "true" or "false". See --numbered option in git-format-patch(1).
format.headers
Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See git-format-patch(1).
format.to, format.cc
Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See the --to and --cc options in git-
format-patch(1).
format.subjectprefix
The default for format-patch is to output files with the [PATCH] subject prefix. Use this variable to
change that prefix.
format.signature
The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing the Git version number. Use this variable
to change that default. Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress signature generation.
format.suffix
The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix .patch. Use this variable to change that
suffix (make sure to include the dot if you want it).
format.pretty
The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, See git-log(1), git-show(1), git-
whatchanged(1).
format.thread
The default threading style for git format-patch. Can be a boolean value, or shallow or deep. shallow
threading makes every mail a reply to the head of the series, where the head is chosen from the cover
letter, the --in-reply-to, and the first patch mail, in this order. deep threading makes every mail a
reply to the previous one. A true boolean value is the same as shallow, and a false value disables
threading.
format.signoff
A boolean value which lets you enable the -s/--signoff option of format-patch by default. Note: Adding
the Signed-off-by: line to a patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have the
rights to submit this work under the same open source license. Please see the SubmittingPatches document
for further discussion.
format.coverLetter
The window size parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by git gc --aggressive. This
defaults to 250.
gc.auto
When there are approximately more than this many loose objects in the repository, git gc --auto will pack
them. Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a light-weight garbage collection from time to
time. The default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables it.
gc.autopacklimit
When there are more than this many packs that are not marked with *.keep file in the repository, git gc
--auto consolidates them into one larger pack. The default value is 50. Setting this to 0 disables it.
gc.packrefs
Running git pack-refs in a repository renders it unclonable by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb
transports such as HTTP. This variable determines whether git gc runs git pack-refs. This can be set to
notbare to enable it within all non-bare repos or it can be set to a boolean value. The default is true.
gc.pruneexpire
When git gc is run, it will call prune --expire 2.weeks.ago. Override the grace period with this config
variable. The value "now" may be used to disable this grace period and always prune unreachable objects
immediately.
gc.reflogexpire, gc.<pattern>.reflogexpire
git reflog expire removes reflog entries older than this time; defaults to 90 days. With "<pattern>" (e.g.
"refs/stash") in the middle the setting applies only to the refs that match the <pattern>.
gc.reflogexpireunreachable, gc.<ref>.reflogexpireunreachable
git reflog expire removes reflog entries older than this time and are not reachable from the current tip;
defaults to 30 days. With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash") in the middle, the setting applies only to the
refs that match the <pattern>.
gc.rerereresolved
Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are kept for this many days when git rerere gc is run.
The default is 60 days. See git-rerere(1).
gc.rerereunresolved
Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are kept for this many days when git rerere gc is run.
The default is 15 days. See git-rerere(1).
gitcvs.commitmsgannotation
Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty string to disable this feature. Defaults to "via
git-CVS emulator".
gitcvs.enabled
Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this repository. See git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.logfile
Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well... logs various stuff. See git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.usecrlfattr
If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion attributes for files to determine the -k modes
to use. If the attributes force Git to treat a file as text, the -k mode will be left blank so CVS clients
will treat it as text. If they suppress text conversion, the file will be set with -kb mode, which
suppresses any newline munging the client might otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow the file type
Default: %Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite
gitcvs.dbdriver
Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver for this here, but it might not work.
git-cvsserver is tested with DBD::SQLite, reported to work with DBD::Pg, and reported not to work with
DBD::mysql. Experimental feature. May not contain double colons (:). Default: SQLite. See git-
cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.dbuser, gitcvs.dbpass
Database user and password. Only useful if setting gitcvs.dbdriver, since SQLite has no concept of
database users and/or passwords. gitcvs.dbuser supports variable substitution (see git-cvsserver(1) for
details).
gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix
Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any database tables used, allowing a single database
to be used for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see git-cvsserver(1) for details).
Any non-alphabetic characters will be replaced with underscores.
All gitcvs variables except for gitcvs.usecrlfattr and gitcvs.allbinary can also be specified as
gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname> (where access_method is one of "ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only
for the given access method.
gitweb.category, gitweb.description, gitweb.owner, gitweb.url
See gitweb(1) for description.
gitweb.avatar, gitweb.blame, gitweb.grep, gitweb.highlight, gitweb.patches, gitweb.pickaxe,
gitweb.remote_heads, gitweb.showsizes, gitweb.snapshot
See gitweb.conf(5) for description.
grep.lineNumber
If set to true, enable -n option by default.
grep.patternType
Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of basic, extended, fixed, or perl will enable the
--basic-regexp, --extended-regexp, --fixed-strings, or --perl-regexp option accordingly, while the value
default will return to the default matching behavior.
grep.extendedRegexp
If set to true, enable --extended-regexp option by default. This option is ignored when the
grep.patternType option is set to a value other than default.
gpg.program
Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when making or verifying a PGP signature. The
program must support the same command line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a detached signature, "gpg
--verify $file - <$signature" is run, and the program is expected to signal a good signature by exiting
with code 0, and to generate an ascii-armored detached signature, the standard input of "gpg -bsau $key"
is fed with the contents to be signed, and the program is expected to send the result to its standard
output.
gui.commitmsgwidth
Defines how wide the commit message window is in the git-gui(1). "75" is the default.
gui.diffcontext
Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff made by the git-gui(1). The default is
Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using the git-gui(1).
gui.pruneduringfetch
"true" if git-gui(1) should prune remote-tracking branches when performing a fetch. The default value is
"false".
gui.trustmtime
Determines if git-gui(1) should trust the file modification timestamp or not. By default the timestamps
are not trusted.
gui.spellingdictionary
Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in the git-gui(1). When set to "none"
spell checking is turned off.
gui.fastcopyblame
If true, git gui blame uses -C instead of -C -C for original location detection. It makes blame
significantly faster on huge repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.
gui.copyblamethreshold
Specifies the threshold to use in git gui blame original location detection, measured in alphanumeric
characters. See the git-blame(1) manual for more information on copy detection.
gui.blamehistoryctx
Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in gitk(1) for the selected commit, when the Show
History Context menu item is invoked from git gui blame. If this variable is set to zero, the whole
history is shown.
guitool.<name>.cmd
Specifies the shell command line to execute when the corresponding item of the git-gui(1)Tools menu is
invoked. This option is mandatory for every tool. The command is executed from the root of the working
directory, and in the environment it receives the name of the tool as GIT_GUITOOL, the name of the
currently selected file as FILENAME, and the name of the current branch as CUR_BRANCH (if the head is
detached, CUR_BRANCH is empty).
guitool.<name>.needsfile
Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It guarantees that FILENAME is not empty.
guitool.<name>.noconsole
Run the command silently, without creating a window to display its output.
guitool.<name>.norescan
Don’t rescan the working directory for changes after the tool finishes execution.
guitool.<name>.confirm
Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
guitool.<name>.argprompt
Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the tool through the ARGS environment variable.
Since requesting an argument implies confirmation, the confirm option has no effect if this is enabled. If
the option is set to true, yes, or 1, the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise the exact value
of the variable is used.
guitool.<name>.revprompt
Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the REVISION environment variable. In other aspects
help.browser
Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the web format. See git-help(1).
help.format
Override the default help format used by git-help(1). Values man, info, web and html are supported. man
is the default. web and html are the same.
help.autocorrect
Automatically correct and execute mistyped commands after waiting for the given number of deciseconds (0.1
sec). If more than one command can be deduced from the entered text, nothing will be executed. If the
value of this option is negative, the corrected command will be executed immediately. If the value is 0 -
the command will be just shown but not executed. This is the default.
help.htmlpath
Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File system paths and URLs are supported. HTML
pages will be prefixed with this path when help is displayed in the web format. This defaults to the
documentation path of your Git installation.
http.proxy
Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the http_proxy, https_proxy, and all_proxy environment
variables (see curl(1)). This can be overridden on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy
http.cookiefile
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
only used as input. No cookies will be stored in the file.
http.sslVerify
Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY environment variable.
http.sslCert
File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_CERT environment variable.
http.sslKey
File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_KEY environment variable.
http.sslCertPasswordProtected
Enable Git’s password prompt for the SSL certificate. Otherwise OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly
many times, if the certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED environment variable.
http.sslCAInfo
File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be
overridden by the GIT_SSL_CAINFO environment variable.
http.sslCAPath
Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the peer with when fetching or pushing over
HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CAPATH environment variable.
curl_easy_cleanup() until http_cleanup() is invoked. If USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this value will be
capped at 1. Defaults to 1.
http.postBuffer
Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP transports when POSTing data to the remote system.
For requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid
creating a massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is sufficient for most requests.
http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime
If the HTTP transfer speed is less than http.lowSpeedLimit for longer than http.lowSpeedTime seconds, the
transfer is aborted. Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT and GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME
environment variables.
http.noEPSV
A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl. This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers
which don’t support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV environment variable. Default
is false (curl will use EPSV).
http.useragent
The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The default value represents the version of the
client Git such as git/1.7.1. This option allows you to override this value to a more common value such as
Mozilla/4.0. This may be necessary, for instance, if connecting through a firewall that restricts HTTP
connections to a set of common USER_AGENT strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1). Can be
overridden by the GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT environment variable.
i18n.commitEncoding
Character encoding the commit messages are stored in; Git itself does not care per se, but this
information is necessary e.g. when importing commits from emails or in the gitk graphical history browser
(and possibly at other places in the future or in other porcelains). See e.g. git-mailinfo(1). Defaults
to utf-8.
i18n.logOutputEncoding
Character encoding the commit messages are converted to when running git log and friends.
imap
The configuration variables in the imap section are described in git-imap-send(1).
init.templatedir
Specify the directory from which templates will be copied. (See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of git-
init(1).)
instaweb.browser
Specify the program that will be used to browse your working repository in gitweb. See git-instaweb(1).
instaweb.httpd
The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working repository. See git-instaweb(1).
instaweb.local
If true the web server started by git-instaweb(1) will be bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
instaweb.modulepath
The default module path for git-instaweb(1) to use instead of /usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd
is Apache.
log.date
Set the default date-time mode for the log command. Setting a value for log.date is similar to using git
log's --date option. Possible values are relative, local, default, iso, rfc, and short; see git-log(1) for
details.
log.decorate
Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the log command. If short is specified, the ref
name prefixes refs/heads/, refs/tags/ and refs/remotes/ will not be printed. If full is specified, the
full ref name (including prefix) will be printed. This is the same as the log commands --decorate option.
log.showroot
If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against an
empty tree. Tools like git-log(1) or git-whatchanged(1), which normally hide the root commit will now show
it. True by default.
log.mailmap
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and git-whatchanged(1) assume --use-mailmap.
mailmap.file
The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is
loaded first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable. The location of the mailmap file may be
in a repository subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself. See git-shortlog(1) and git-
blame(1).
mailmap.blob
Like mailmap.file, but consider the value as a reference to a blob in the repository. If both mailmap.file
and mailmap.blob are given, both are parsed, with entries from mailmap.file taking precedence. In a bare
repository, this defaults to HEAD:.mailmap. In a non-bare repository, it defaults to empty.
man.viewer
Specify the programs that may be used to display help in the man format. See git-help(1).
man.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified man viewer. The specified command is evaluated in shell with
the man page passed as argument. (See git-help(1).)
man.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to display help in the man format. See git-help(1).
merge.conflictstyle
Specify the style in which conflicted hunks are written out to working tree files upon merge. The default
is "merge", which shows a <<<<<<< conflict marker, changes made by one side, a ======= marker, changes
made by the other side, and then a >>>>>>> marker. An alternate style, "diff3", adds a ||||||| marker and
the original text before the ======= marker.
merge.defaultToUpstream
If merge is called without any commit argument, merge the upstream branches configured for the current
branch by using their last observed values stored in their remote-tracking branches. The values of the
branch.<current branch>.merge that name the branches at the remote named by branch.<current branch>.remote
are consulted, and then they are mapped via remote.<remote>.fetch to their corresponding remote-tracking
branches, and the tips of these tracking branches are merged.
merge.ff
The number of files to consider when performing rename detection during a merge; if not specified,
defaults to the value of diff.renameLimit.
merge.renormalize
Tell Git that canonical representation of files in the repository has changed over time (e.g. earlier
commits record text files with CRLF line endings, but recent ones use LF line endings). In such a
repository, Git can convert the data recorded in commits to a canonical form before performing a merge to
reduce unnecessary conflicts. For more information, see section "Merging branches with differing
checkin/checkout attributes" in gitattributes(5).
merge.stat
Whether to print the diffstat between ORIG_HEAD and the merge result at the end of the merge. True by
default.
merge.tool
Controls which merge tool is used by git-mergetool(1). The list below shows the valid built-in values. Any
other value is treated as a custom merge tool and requires that a corresponding mergetool.<tool>.cmd
variable is defined.
· araxis
· bc3
· codecompare
· deltawalker
· diffuse
· ecmerge
· emerge
· gvimdiff
· gvimdiff2
· kdiff3
· meld
· opendiff
· p4merge
· tkdiff
· tortoisemerge
· vimdiff
· vimdiff2
· xxdiff
merge.<driver>.recursive
Names a low-level merge driver to be used when performing an internal merge between common ancestors. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
mergetool.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH.
mergetool.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The specified command is evaluated in shell with
the following variables available: BASE is the name of a temporary file containing the common base of the
files to be merged, if available; LOCAL is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of the
file on the current branch; REMOTE is the name of a temporary file containing the contents of the file
from the branch being merged; MERGED contains the name of the file to which the merge tool should write
the results of a successful merge.
mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode
For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of the merge command can be used to determine
whether the merge was successful. If this is not set to true then the merge target file timestamp is
checked and the merge assumed to have been successful if the file has been updated, otherwise the user is
prompted to indicate the success of the merge.
mergetool.keepBackup
After performing a merge, the original file with conflict markers can be saved as a file with a .orig
extension. If this variable is set to false then this file is not preserved. Defaults to true (i.e. keep
the backup files).
mergetool.keepTemporaries
When invoking a custom merge tool, Git uses a set of temporary files to pass to the tool. If the tool
returns an error and this variable is set to true, then these temporary files will be preserved, otherwise
they will be removed after the tool has exited. Defaults to false.
mergetool.prompt
Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution program.
notes.displayRef
The (fully qualified) refname from which to show notes when showing commit messages. The value of this
variable can be set to a glob, in which case notes from all matching refs will be shown. You may also
specify this configuration variable several times. A warning will be issued for refs that do not exist,
but a glob that does not match any refs is silently ignored.
This setting can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF environment variable, which must be a colon
separated list of refs or globs.
The effective value of "core.notesRef" (possibly overridden by GIT_NOTES_REF) is also implicitly added to
the list of refs to be displayed.
notes.rewrite.<command>
When rewriting commits with <command> (currently amend or rebase) and this variable is set to true, Git
automatically copies your notes from the original to the rewritten commit. Defaults to true, but see
"notes.rewriteRef" below.
notes.rewriteMode
When copying notes during a rewrite (see the "notes.rewrite.<command>" option), determines what to do if
This setting can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF environment variable, which must be a colon
separated list of refs or globs.
pack.window
The size of the window used by git-pack-objects(1) when no window size is given on the command line.
Defaults to 10.
pack.depth
The maximum delta depth used by git-pack-objects(1) when no maximum depth is given on the command line.
Defaults to 50.
pack.windowMemory
The window memory size limit used by git-pack-objects(1) when no limit is given on the command line. The
value can be suffixed with "k", "m", or "g". Defaults to 0, meaning no limit.
pack.compression
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0
means no compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If not set, defaults to
core.compression. If that is not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is "a default compromise
between speed and compression (currently equivalent to level 6)."
Note that changing the compression level will not automatically recompress all existing objects. You can
force recompression by passing the -F option to git-repack(1).
pack.deltaCacheSize
The maximum memory in bytes used for caching deltas in git-pack-objects(1) before writing them out to a
pack. This cache is used to speed up the writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta
result once the best match for all objects is found. Repacking large repositories on machines which are
tight with memory might be badly impacted by this though, especially if this cache pushes the system into
swapping. A value of 0 means no limit. The smallest size of 1 byte may be used to virtually disable this
cache. Defaults to 256 MiB.
pack.deltaCacheLimit
The maximum size of a delta, that is cached in git-pack-objects(1). This cache is used to speed up the
writing object phase by not having to recompute the final delta result once the best match for all objects
is found. Defaults to 1000.
pack.threads
Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for best delta matches. This requires that git-
pack-objects(1) be compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with a warning. This is meant
to reduce packing time on multiprocessor machines. The required amount of memory for the delta search
window is however multiplied by the number of threads. Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the
number of CPU’s and set the number of threads accordingly.
pack.indexVersion
Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1 for legacy pack index used by Git versions
prior to 1.5.2, and 2 for the new pack index with capabilities for packs larger than 4 GB as well as
proper protection against the repacking of corrupted packs. Version 2 is the default. Note that version 2
is enforced and this config option ignored whenever the corresponding pack is larger than 2 GB.
If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2 *.idx file, cloning or fetching over a non
native protocol (e.g. "http" and "rsync") 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
of pager.<cmd>. If --paginate or --no-pager is specified on the command line, it takes precedence over
this option. To disable pagination for all commands, set core.pager or GIT_PAGER to cat.
pretty.<name>
Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in git-log(1). Any aliases defined here can be used just
as the built-in pretty formats could. For example, running git config pretty.changelog "format:* %H %s"
would cause the invocation git log --pretty=changelog to be equivalent to running git log
"--pretty=format:* %H %s". Note that an alias with the same name as a built-in format will be silently
ignored.
pull.rebase
When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch, instead of merging the default branch from the
default remote when "git pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for setting this on a per-branch basis.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it unless you understand the implications (see
git-rebase(1) for details).
pull.octopus
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple branches at once.
pull.twohead
The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single branch.
push.default
Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is given on the command line, no refspec is
configured in the remote, and no refspec is implied by any of the options given on the command line.
Possible values are:
· nothing - do not push anything.
· matching - push all branches having the same name in both ends. This is for those who prepare all the
branches into a publishable shape and then push them out with a single command. It is not appropriate
for pushing into a repository shared by multiple users, since locally stalled branches will attempt a
non-fast forward push if other users updated the branch.
This is currently the default, but Git 2.0 will change the default to simple.
· upstream - push the current branch to its upstream branch (tracking is a deprecated synonym for this).
With this, git push will update the same remote ref as the one which is merged by git pull, making
push and pull symmetrical. See "branch.<name>.merge" for how to configure the upstream branch.
· simple - like upstream, but refuses to push if the upstream branch’s name is different from the local
one. This is the safest option and is well-suited for beginners. It will become the default in Git
2.0.
· current - push the current branch to a branch of the same name.
The simple, current and upstream modes are for those who want to push out a single branch after finishing
work, even when the other branches are not yet ready to be pushed out. If you are working with other
people to push into the same shared repository, you would want to use one of these.
rebase.stat
Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the last rebase. False by default.
receive.unpackLimit
If the number of objects received in a push is below this limit then the objects will be unpacked into
loose object files. However if the number of received objects equals or exceeds this limit then the
received pack will be stored as a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the pack from a push
can make the push operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
receive.denyDeletes
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the ref. Use this to prevent such a
ref deletion via a push.
receive.denyDeleteCurrent
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that deletes the currently checked out branch of a
non-bare repository.
receive.denyCurrentBranch
If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref update to the currently checked out branch of
a non-bare repository. Such a push is potentially dangerous because it brings the HEAD out of sync with
the index and working tree. If set to "warn", print a warning of such a push to stderr, but allow the push
to proceed. If set to false or "ignore", allow such pushes with no message. Defaults to "refuse".
receive.denyNonFastForwards
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which is not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent
such an update via a push, even if that push is forced. This configuration variable is set when
initializing a shared repository.
receive.hiderefs
String(s) receive-pack uses to decide which refs to omit from its initial advertisement. Use more than one
definitions to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that are under the hierarchies listed on the value
of this variable is excluded, and is hidden when responding to git push, and an attempt to update or
delete a hidden ref by git push is rejected.
receive.updateserverinfo
If set to true, git-receive-pack will run git-update-server-info after receiving data from git-push and
updating refs.
remote.pushdefault
The remote to push to by default. Overrides branch.<name>.remote for all branches, and is overridden by
branch.<name>.pushremote for specific branches.
remote.<name>.url
The URL of a remote repository. See git-fetch(1) or git-push(1).
remote.<name>.pushurl
The push URL of a remote repository. See git-push(1).
remote.<name>.proxy
For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL to the proxy to use for that remote. Set to
the empty string to disable proxying for that remote.
remote.<name>.fetch
The default set of "refspec" for git-fetch(1). See git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.push
of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.receivepack
The default program to execute on the remote side when pushing. See option --receive-pack of git-push(1).
remote.<name>.uploadpack
The default program to execute on the remote side when fetching. See option --upload-pack of git-fetch-
pack(1).
remote.<name>.tagopt
Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag following when fetching from remote <name>. Setting
it to --tags will fetch every tag from remote <name>, even if they are not reachable from remote branch
heads. Passing these flags directly to git-fetch(1) can override this setting. See options --tags and
--no-tags of git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.vcs
Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper.
remotes.<group>
The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update <group>". See git-remote(1).
repack.usedeltabaseoffset
By default, git-repack(1) creates packs that use delta-base offset. If you need to share your repository
with Git older than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb protocol such as http, then you need to
set this option to "false" and repack. Access from old Git versions over the native protocol are
unaffected by this option.
rerere.autoupdate
When set to true, git-rerere updates the index with the resulting contents after it cleanly resolves
conflicts using previously recorded resolution. Defaults to false.
rerere.enabled
Activate recording of resolved conflicts, so that identical conflict hunks can be resolved automatically,
should they be encountered again. By default, git-rerere(1) is enabled if there is an rr-cache directory
under the $GIT_DIR, e.g. if "rerere" was previously used in the repository.
sendemail.identity
A configuration identity. When given, causes values in the sendemail.<identity> subsection to take
precedence over values in the sendemail section. The default identity is the value of sendemail.identity.
sendemail.smtpencryption
See git-send-email(1) for description. Note that this setting is not subject to the identity mechanism.
sendemail.smtpssl
Deprecated alias for sendemail.smtpencryption = ssl.
sendemail.<identity>.*
Identity-specific versions of the sendemail.* parameters found below, taking precedence over those when
the this identity is selected, through command-line or sendemail.identity.
sendemail.aliasesfile, sendemail.aliasfiletype, sendemail.annotate, sendemail.bcc, sendemail.cc,
sendemail.cccmd, sendemail.chainreplyto, sendemail.confirm, sendemail.envelopesender, sendemail.from,
sendemail.multiedit, sendemail.signedoffbycc, sendemail.smtppass, sendemail.suppresscc,
sendemail.suppressfrom, sendemail.to, sendemail.smtpdomain, sendemail.smtpserver, sendemail.smtpserverport,
status.showUntrackedFiles
By default, git-status(1) and git-commit(1) show files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories
which contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name only. Showing untracked files means
that Git needs to lstat() all 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).
status.submodulesummary
Defaults to false. If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an unlimited number),
the submodule summary will be enabled and a summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see
--summary-limit option of git-submodule(1)).
submodule.<name>.path, submodule.<name>.url, submodule.<name>.update
The path within this project, URL, and the updating strategy for a submodule. These variables are
initially populated by git submodule init; edit them to override the URL and other values found in the
.gitmodules file. See git-submodule(1) and gitmodules(5) for details.
submodule.<name>.branch
The remote branch name for a submodule, used by git submodule update --remote. Set this option to override
the value found in the .gitmodules file. See git-submodule(1) and gitmodules(5) for details.
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules
This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this submodule. It can be overridden by using the
--[no-]recurse-submodules command line option to "git fetch" and "git pull". This setting will override
that from in the gitmodules(5) file.
submodule.<name>.ignore
Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff family show a submodule as modified. When set
to "all", it will never be considered modified, "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.
tar.umask
This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of tar archive entries. The default is 0002,
which turns off the world write bit. The special value "user" indicates that the archiving user’s umask
will be used instead. See umask(2) and git-archive(1).
transfer.fsckObjects
When fetch.fsckObjects or receive.fsckObjects are not set, the value of this variable is used instead.
Defaults to false.
hidden ref by git fetch will fail. See also uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant.
uploadpack.allowtipsha1inwant
When uploadpack.hiderefs is in effect, allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request that asks for an object
at the tip of a hidden ref (by default, such a request is rejected). see also uploadpack.hiderefs.
url.<base>.insteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some
site serves a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple access methods, and some users
need to use different access methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the equivalent URLs and
have Git automatically rewrite the URL to the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one insteadOf strings match a given URL, the
longest match is used.
url.<base>.pushInsteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to; instead, it will be rewritten to start with
<base>, and the resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site serves a large number of
repositories, and serves them with multiple access methods, some of which do not allow push, this feature
allows people to specify a pull-only URL and have Git automatically use an appropriate URL to push, even
for a never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one pushInsteadOf strings match a given
URL, the longest match is used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will ignore this setting for that
remote.
user.email
Your email address to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL,
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL, and EMAIL environment variables. See git-commit-tree(1).
user.name
Your full name to be recorded in any newly created commits. Can be overridden by the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and
GIT_COMMITTER_NAME environment variables. See git-commit-tree(1).
user.signingkey
If git-tag(1) is not selecting the key you want it to automatically when creating a signed tag, 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.
web.browser
Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands. Currently only git-instaweb(1) and git-help(1)
may use it.
GIT
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