The Git configuration file contains a number of variables that
affect the Git commands' behavior. The files .git/config and
optionally config.worktree (see the "CONFIGURATION FILE" section
of git-worktree(1)) in each repository are used to store the
configuration for that repository, and $HOME/.gitconfig is used
to store a per-user configuration as fallback values for the
.git/config file. The file /etc/gitconfig can be used to store a
system-wide default configuration.
The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing and
the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein
the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the
last dot-separated segment and the section name is everything
before the last dot. The variable names are case-insensitive,
allow only alphanumeric characters and -, and must start with an
alphabetic character. Some variables may appear multiple times;
we say then that the variable is multivalued.
Syntax
The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are
mostly ignored. The # and ; characters begin comments to the end
of line, blank lines are ignored.
The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins
with the name of the section in square brackets and continues
until the next section begins. Section names are
case-insensitive. Only alphanumeric characters, - and . are
allowed in section names. Each variable must belong to some
section, which means that there must be a section header before
the first setting of a variable.
Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a
subsection put its name in double quotes, separated by space from
the section name, in the section header, like in the example
below:
[section "subsection"]
Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any
characters except newline and the null byte. Doublequote " and
backslash can be included by escaping them as \" and \\,
respectively. Backslashes preceding other characters are dropped
when reading; for example, \t is read as t and \0 is read as 0.
Section headers cannot span multiple lines. Variables may belong
directly to a section or to a given subsection. You can have
[section] if you have [section "subsection"], but you don't need
to.
There is also a deprecated [section.subsection] syntax. With this
syntax, the subsection name is converted to lower-case and is
also compared case sensitively. These subsection names follow the
same restrictions as section names.
All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the
section header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form
name = value (or just name, which is a short-hand to say that the
variable is the boolean "true"). The variable names are
case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters and -, and
must start with an alphabetic character.
A line that defines a value can be continued to the next line by
ending it with a \; the backslash 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.
Includes
The include and includeIf sections allow you to include config
directives from another source. These sections behave identically
to each other with the exception that includeIf sections may be
ignored if their condition does not evaluate to true; see
"Conditional includes" below.
You can include a config file from another by setting the special
include.path (or includeIf.*.path) variable to the name of the
file to be included. The variable takes a pathname as its value,
and is subject to tilde expansion. These variables can be given
multiple times.
The contents of the included file are inserted immediately, as if
they had been found at the location of the include directive. If
the value of the variable is a relative path, the path is
considered to be relative to the configuration file in which the
include directive was found. See below for examples.
Conditional includes
You can include a config file from another conditionally by
setting a includeIf.<condition>.path variable to the name of the
file to be included.
The condition starts with a keyword followed by a colon and some
data whose format and meaning depends on the keyword. Supported
keywords are:
gitdir
The data that follows the keyword gitdir: is used as a glob
pattern. If the location of the .git directory matches the
pattern, the include condition is met.
The .git location may be auto-discovered, or come from
$GIT_DIR environment variable. If the repository is auto
discovered via a .git file (e.g. from submodules, or a linked
worktree), the .git location would be the final location
where the .git directory is, not where the .git file is.
The pattern can contain standard globbing wildcards and two
additional ones, **/ and /**, that can match multiple path
components. Please refer to gitignore(5) for details. For
convenience:
• 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 systems)
onbranch
The data that follows the keyword onbranch: is taken to be a
pattern with standard globbing wildcards and two additional
ones, **/ and /**, that can match multiple path components.
If we are in a worktree where the name of the branch that is
currently checked out matches the pattern, the include
condition is met.
If the pattern ends with /, ** will be automatically added.
For example, the pattern foo/ becomes foo/**. In other words,
it matches all branches that begin with foo/. This is useful
if your branches are organized hierarchically and you would
like to apply a configuration to all the branches in that
hierarchy.
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 $GIT_DIR. E.g. if ~/git is a symlink to
/mnt/storage/git, both gitdir:~/git and
gitdir:/mnt/storage/git will match.
This was not the case in the initial release of this feature
in v2.13.0, which only matched the realpath version.
Configuration that wants to be compatible with the initial
release of this feature needs to either specify only the
realpath version, or both versions.
• Note that "../" is not special and will match literally,
which is unlikely what you want.
Example
# Core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false
# Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true
[branch "devel"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/devel
# Proxy settings
[core]
gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest
[include]
path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path
path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file
path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory
; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git
[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"]
path = /path/to/foo.inc
; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group
[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
path = /path/to/foo.inc
; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group
[includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"]
path = /path/to/foo.inc
; relative paths are always relative to the including
; file (if the condition is true); their location is not
; affected by the condition
[includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"]
path = foo.inc
; include only if we are in a worktree where foo-branch is
; currently checked out
[includeIf "onbranch:foo-branch"]
path = foo.inc
Values
Values of many variables are treated as a simple string, but
there are variables that take values of specific types and there
are rules as to how to spell them.
boolean
When a variable is said to take a boolean value, many
synonyms are accepted for true and false; these are all
case-insensitive.
true
Boolean true literals are yes, on, true, and 1. Also, a
variable defined without = <value> is taken as true.
false
Boolean false literals are no, off, false, 0 and the
empty string.
When converting a value to its canonical form using the
--type=bool type specifier, git config will ensure that
the output is "true" or "false" (spelled in lowercase).
integer
The value for many variables that specify various sizes can
be suffixed with k, M,... to mean "scale the number by 1024",
"by 1024x1024", etc.
color
The value for a variable that takes a color is a list of
colors (at most two, one for foreground and one for
background) and attributes (as many as you want), separated
by spaces.
The basic colors accepted are normal, black, red, green,
yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white. The first color given
is the foreground; the second is the background. All the
basic colors except normal have a bright variant that can be
specified by prefixing the color with bright, like brightred.
Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these
use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may
support this). If your terminal supports it, you may also
specify 24-bit RGB values as hex, like #ff0ab3.
The accepted attributes are bold, dim, ul, blink, reverse,
italic, and strike (for crossed-out or "strikethrough"
letters). The position of any attributes with respect to the
colors (before, after, or in between), doesn't matter.
Specific attributes may be turned off by prefixing them with
no or no- (e.g., noreverse, no-ul, etc).
An empty color string produces no color effect at all. This
can be used to avoid coloring specific elements without
disabling color entirely.
For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant
to be reset at the beginning of each item in the colored
output. So setting color.decorate.branch to black will paint
that branch name in a plain black, even if the previous thing
on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the
list of branch names in log --decorate output) is set to be
painted with bold or some other attribute. However, custom
log formats may do more complicated and layered coloring, and
the negated forms may be useful there.
pathname
A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a string
that begins with "~/" or "~user/", and the usual tilde
expansion happens to such a string: ~/ is expanded to the
value of $HOME, and ~user/ to the specified user's home
directory.
If a path starts with %(prefix)/, the remainder is
interpreted as a path relative to Git's "runtime prefix",
i.e. relative to the location where Git itself was installed.
For example, %(prefix)/bin/ refers to the directory in which
the Git executable itself lives. If Git was compiled without
runtime prefix support, the compiled-in prefix will be
subsituted instead. In the unlikely event that a literal path
needs to be specified that should not be expanded, it needs
to be prefixed by ./, like so: ./%(prefix)/bin.
Variables
Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily
complete. For command-specific variables, you will find a more
detailed description in the appropriate manual page.
Other git-related tools may and do use their own variables. When
inventing new variables for use in your own tool, make sure their
names do not conflict with those that are used by Git itself and
other popular tools, and describe them in your documentation.
advice.*
These variables control various optional help messages
designed to aid new users. All advice.* variables default to
true, and you can tell Git that you do not need help by
setting these to false:
fetchShowForcedUpdates
Advice shown when git-fetch(1) takes a long time to
calculate forced updates after ref updates, or to warn
that the check is disabled.
pushUpdateRejected
Set this variable to false if you want to disable
pushNonFFCurrent, pushNonFFMatching, pushAlreadyExists,
pushFetchFirst, pushNeedsForce, and pushRefNeedsUpdate
simultaneously.
pushNonFFCurrent
Advice shown when git-push(1) fails due to a
non-fast-forward update to the current branch.
pushNonFFMatching
Advice shown when you ran git-push(1) and pushed matching
refs explicitly (i.e. you used :, or specified a refspec
that isn't your current branch) and it resulted in a
non-fast-forward error.
pushAlreadyExists
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that does not
qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.)
pushFetchFirst
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that tries to
overwrite a remote ref that points at an object we do not
have.
pushNeedsForce
Shown when git-push(1) rejects an update that tries to
overwrite a remote ref that points at an object that is
not a commit-ish, or make the remote ref point at an
object that is not a commit-ish.
pushUnqualifiedRefname
Shown when git-push(1) gives up trying to guess based on
the source and destination refs what remote ref namespace
the source belongs in, but where we can still suggest
that the user push to either refs/heads/* or refs/tags/*
based on the type of the source object.
pushRefNeedsUpdate
Shown when git-push(1) rejects a forced update of a
branch when its remote-tracking ref has updates that we
do not have locally.
statusAheadBehind
Shown when git-status(1) computes the ahead/behind counts
for a local ref compared to its remote tracking ref, and
that calculation takes longer than expected. Will not
appear if status.aheadBehind is false or the option
--no-ahead-behind is given.
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-switch(1) or 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.
resetQuiet
Advice to consider using the --quiet option to
git-reset(1) when the command takes more than 2 seconds
to enumerate unstaged changes after reset.
resolveConflict
Advice shown by various commands when conflicts prevent
the operation from being performed.
sequencerInUse
Advice shown when a sequencer command is already in
progress.
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-switch(1) or
git-checkout(1) to move to the detach HEAD state, to
instruct how to create a local branch after the fact.
checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName
Advice shown when the argument to git-checkout(1) and
git-switch(1) ambiguously resolves to a remote tracking
branch on more than one remote in situations where an
unambiguous argument would have otherwise caused a
remote-tracking branch to be checked out. See the
checkout.defaultRemote configuration variable for how to
set a given remote to used by default in some situations
where this advice would be printed.
amWorkDir
Advice that shows the location of the patch file when
git-am(1) fails to apply it.
rmHints
In case of failure in the output of git-rm(1), show
directions on how to proceed from the current state.
addEmbeddedRepo
Advice on what to do when you've accidentally added one
git repo inside of another.
ignoredHook
Advice shown if a hook is ignored because the hook is not
set as executable.
waitingForEditor
Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting
for editor input from the user.
nestedTag
Advice shown if a user attempts to recursively tag a tag
object.
submoduleAlternateErrorStrategyDie
Advice shown when a submodule.alternateErrorStrategy
option configured to "die" causes a fatal error.
addIgnoredFile
Advice shown if a user attempts to add an ignored file to
the index.
addEmptyPathspec
Advice shown if a user runs the add command without
providing the pathspec parameter.
updateSparsePath
Advice shown when either git-add(1) or git-rm(1) is asked
to update index entries outside the current sparse
checkout.
core.fileMode
Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree
is to be honored.
Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is
marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a
non-executable file with executable bit on. git-clone(1) or
git-init(1) probe the filesystem to see if it handles the
executable bit correctly and this variable is automatically
set as necessary.
A repository, however, may be on a filesystem that handles
the filemode correctly, and this variable is set to true when
created, but later may be made accessible from another
environment that loses the filemode (e.g. exporting ext4 via
CIFS mount, visiting a Cygwin created repository with Git for
Windows or Eclipse). In such a case it may be necessary to
set this variable to false. See git-update-index(1).
The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in
the config file).
core.hideDotFiles
(Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and
files whose name starts with a dot as hidden. If dotGitOnly,
only the .git/ directory is hidden, but no other files
starting with a dot. The default mode is dotGitOnly.
core.ignoreCase
Internal variable which enables various workarounds to enable
Git to work better on filesystems that are not case
sensitive, like APFS, HFS+, FAT, NTFS, etc. 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.
Git relies on the proper configuration of this variable for
your operating and file system. Modifying this value may
result in unexpected behavior.
core.precomposeUnicode
This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git.
When core.precomposeUnicode=true, Git reverts the unicode
decomposition of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful
when sharing a repository between Mac OS and Linux or
Windows. (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git
under cygwin 1.7). When false, file names are handled fully
transparent by Git, which is backward compatible with older
versions of Git.
core.protectHFS
If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would be
considered equivalent to .git on an HFS+ filesystem. Defaults
to true on Mac OS, and false elsewhere.
core.protectNTFS
If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would
cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with
8.3 "short" names. Defaults to true on Windows, and false
elsewhere.
core.fsmonitor
If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which
will identify all files that may have changed since the
requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git
by avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not
changed. See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of githooks(5).
core.fsmonitorHookVersion
Sets the version of hook that is to be used when calling
fsmonitor. There are currently versions 1 and 2. When this is
not set, version 2 will be tried first and if it fails then
version 1 will be tried. Version 1 uses a timestamp as input
to determine which files have changes since that time but
some monitors like watchman have race conditions when used
with a timestamp. Version 2 uses an opaque string so that the
monitor can return something that can be used to determine
what files have changed without race conditions.
core.trustctime
If false, the ctime differences between the index and the
working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time
is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system
crawlers and some backup systems). See git-update-index(1).
True by default.
core.splitIndex
If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used.
See git-update-index(1). False by default.
core.untrackedCache
Determines what to do about the untracked cache feature of
the index. It will be kept, if this variable is unset or set
to keep. It will automatically be added if set to true. And
it will automatically be removed, if set to false. Before
setting it to true, you should check that mtime is working
properly on your system. See git-update-index(1). keep by
default, unless feature.manyFiles is enabled which sets this
setting to true by default.
core.checkStat
When missing or is set to default, many fields in the stat
structure are checked to detect if a file has been modified
since Git looked at it. When this configuration variable is
set to minimal, sub-second part of mtime and ctime, the uid
and gid of the owner of the file, the inode number (and the
device number, if Git was compiled to use it), are excluded
from the check among these fields, leaving only the
whole-second part of mtime (and ctime, if core.trustCtime is
set) and the filesize to be checked.
There are implementations of Git that do not leave usable
values in some fields (e.g. JGit); by excluding these fields
from the comparison, the minimal mode may help
interoperability when the same repository is used by these
other systems at the same time.
core.quotePath
Commands that output paths (e.g. ls-files, diff), will quote
"unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the
pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with
backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters
(e.g. \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.
core.eol
Sets the line ending type to use in the working directory for
files that are marked as text (either by having the text
attribute set, or by having text=auto and Git auto-detecting
the contents as text). 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. Note that this value is ignored if
core.autocrlf is set to true or input.
core.safecrlf
If true, makes Git check if converting CRLF is reversible
when end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a
command modifies a file in the work tree either directly or
indirectly. For example, committing a file followed by
checking out the same file should yield the original file in
the work tree. If this is not the case for the current
setting of core.autocrlf, Git will reject the file. The
variable can be set to "warn", in which case Git will only
warn about an irreversible conversion but continue the
operation.
CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data.
When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF to LF during commit
and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a
mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated
by Git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it
corrects line endings such that we have only LF line endings
in the repository. But for binary files that are accidentally
classified as text the conversion can corrupt data.
If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it
by setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes.
Right after committing you still have the original file in
your work tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can
explicitly tell Git that this file is binary and Git will
handle the file appropriately.
Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files
with mixed line endings and the undesired effect of
corrupting binary files cannot be distinguished. In both
cases CRLFs are removed in an irreversible way. For text
files this is the right thing to do because CRLFs are line
endings, while for binary files converting CRLFs corrupts
data.
Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will
generate a file identical to the original file for a
different setting of core.eol and core.autocrlf, but only for
the current one. For example, a text file with LF would be
accepted with core.eol=lf and could later be checked out with
core.eol=crlf, in which case the resulting file would contain
CRLF, although the original file contained LF. However, in
both work trees the line endings would be consistent, that is
either all LF or all CRLF, but never mixed. A file with mixed
line endings would be reported by the core.safecrlf
mechanism.
core.autocrlf
Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting the
text attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf".
Set to true if you want to have CRLF line endings in your
working directory and the repository has LF line endings.
This variable can be set to input, in which case no output
conversion is performed.
core.checkRoundtripEncoding
A comma and/or whitespace separated list of encodings that
Git performs UTF-8 round trip checks on if they are used in
an working-tree-encoding attribute (see gitattributes(5)).
The default value is SHIFT-JIS.
core.symlinks
If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files
that contain the link text. git-update-index(1) and
git-add(1) will not change the recorded type to regular file.
Useful on filesystems like FAT that do not support symbolic
links.
The default is true, except git-clone(1) or git-init(1) will
probe and set core.symlinks false if appropriate when the
repository is created.
core.gitProxy
A "proxy command" to execute (as command host port) instead
of establishing direct connection to the remote server when
using the Git protocol for fetching. If the variable value is
in the "COMMAND for DOMAIN" format, the command is applied
only on hostnames ending with the specified domain string.
This variable may be set multiple times and is matched in the
given order; the first match wins.
Can be overridden by the GIT_PROXY_COMMAND environment
variable (which always applies universally, without the
special "for" handling).
The special string none can be used as the proxy command to
specify that no proxy be used for a given domain pattern.
This is useful for excluding servers inside a firewall from
proxy use, while defaulting to a common proxy for external
domains.
core.sshCommand
If this variable is set, git fetch and git push will use the
specified command instead of ssh when they need to connect to
a remote system. The command is in the same form as the
GIT_SSH_COMMAND environment variable and is overridden when
the environment variable is set.
core.ignoreStat
If true, Git will avoid using lstat() calls to detect if
files have changed by setting the "assume-unchanged" bit for
those tracked files which it has updated identically in both
the index and working tree.
When files are modified outside of Git, the user will need to
stage the modified files explicitly (e.g. see Examples
section in git-update-index(1)). Git will not normally detect
changes to those files.
This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow,
such as CIFS/Microsoft Windows.
False by default.
core.preferSymlinkRefs
Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD and other
symbolic reference files, use symbolic links. This is
sometimes needed to work with old scripts that expect HEAD to
be a symbolic link.
core.alternateRefsCommand
When advertising tips of available history from an alternate,
use the shell to execute the specified command instead of
git-for-each-ref(1). The first argument is the absolute path
of the alternate. Output must contain one hex object id per
line (i.e., the same as produced by git for-each-ref
--format='%(objectname)').
Note that you cannot generally put git for-each-ref directly
into the config value, as it does not take a repository path
as an argument (but you can wrap the command above in a shell
script).
core.alternateRefsPrefixes
When listing references from an alternate, list only
references that begin with the given prefix. Prefixes match
as if they were given as arguments to git-for-each-ref(1). To
list multiple prefixes, separate them with whitespace. If
core.alternateRefsCommand is set, setting
core.alternateRefsPrefixes has no effect.
core.bare
If true this repository is assumed to be bare and has no
working directory associated with it. If this is the case a
number of commands that require a working directory will be
disabled, such as git-add(1) or git-merge(1).
This setting is automatically guessed by git-clone(1) or
git-init(1) when the repository was created. By default a
repository that ends in "/.git" is assumed to be not bare
(bare = false), while all other repositories are assumed to
be bare (bare = true).
core.worktree
Set the path to the root of the working tree. If
GIT_COMMON_DIR environment variable is set, core.worktree is
ignored and not used for determining the root of working
tree. This can be overridden by the GIT_WORK_TREE environment
variable and the --work-tree command-line option. The value
can be an absolute path or relative to the path to the .git
directory, which is either specified by --git-dir or GIT_DIR,
or automatically discovered. If --git-dir or GIT_DIR is
specified but none of --work-tree, GIT_WORK_TREE and
core.worktree is specified, the current working directory is
regarded as the top level of your working tree.
Note that this variable is honored even when set in a
configuration file in a ".git" subdirectory of a directory
and its value differs from the latter directory (e.g.
"/path/to/.git/config" has core.worktree set to
"/different/path"), which is most likely a misconfiguration.
Running Git commands in the "/path/to" directory will still
use "/different/path" as the root of the work tree and can
cause confusion unless you know what you are doing (e.g. you
are creating a read-only snapshot of the same index to a
location different from the repository's usual working tree).
core.logAllRefUpdates
Enable the reflog. Updates to a ref <ref> is logged to the
file "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>", by appending the new and old
SHA-1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but only
when the file exists. If this configuration variable is set
to true, missing "$GIT_DIR/logs/<ref>" file is automatically
created for branch heads (i.e. under refs/heads/), remote
refs (i.e. under refs/remotes/), note refs (i.e. under
refs/notes/), and the symbolic ref HEAD. If it is set to
always, then a missing reflog is automatically created for
any ref under refs/.
This information can be used to determine what commit was the
tip of a branch "2 days ago".
This value is true by default in a repository that has a
working directory associated with it, and false by default in
a bare repository.
core.repositoryFormatVersion
Internal variable identifying the repository format and
layout version.
core.sharedRepository
When group (or true), the repository is made shareable
between several users in a group (making sure all the files
and objects are group-writable). When all (or world or
everybody), the repository will be readable by all users,
additionally to being group-shareable. When umask (or false),
Git will use permissions reported by umask(2). When 0xxx,
where 0xxx is an octal number, files in the repository will
have this mode value. 0xxx will override user's umask value
(whereas the other options will only override requested parts
of the user's umask value). Examples: 0660 will make the repo
read/write-able for the owner and group, but inaccessible to
others (equivalent to group unless umask is e.g. 0022).
0640 is a repository that is group-readable but not
group-writable. See git-init(1). False by default.
core.warnAmbiguousRefs
If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is
ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the repository.
True by default.
core.compression
An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1
is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, and 1..9 are
various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If set, this
provides a default to other compression variables, such as
core.looseCompression and pack.compression.
core.looseCompression
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for
objects that are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default.
0 means no compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size
tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If not set, defaults to
core.compression. If that is not set, defaults to 1 (best
speed).
core.packedGitWindowSize
Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a single
mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow your system
to process a smaller number of large pack files more quickly.
Smaller window sizes will negatively affect performance due
to increased calls to the operating system's memory manager,
but may improve performance when accessing a large number of
large pack files.
Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time,
otherwise 32 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit
platforms. This should be reasonable for all users/operating
systems. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.packedGitLimit
Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory
from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many
bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing
regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process.
Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 32 TiB
(effectively unlimited) on 64 bit platforms. This should be
reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on the
largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this
value.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.deltaBaseCacheLimit
Maximum number of bytes per thread to reserve for caching
base objects that may be referenced by multiple deltified
objects. By storing the entire decompressed base objects in a
cache Git is able to avoid unpacking and decompressing
frequently used base objects multiple times.
Default is 96 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable
for all users/operating systems, except on the largest
projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.bigFileThreshold
Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without
attempting delta compression. Storing large files without
delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the
slight expense of increased disk usage. Additionally files
larger than this size are always treated as binary.
Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be
reasonable for most projects as source code and other text
files can still be delta compressed, but larger binary media
files won't be.
Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
core.excludesFile
Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to
describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition
to .gitignore (per-directory) and .git/info/exclude. Defaults
to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either
not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/ignore is used instead.
See gitignore(5).
core.askPass
Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that
interactively ask for a password can be told to use an
external program given via the value of this variable. Can be
overridden by the GIT_ASKPASS environment variable. If not
set, fall back to the value of the SSH_ASKPASS environment
variable or, failing that, a simple password prompt. The
external program shall be given a suitable prompt as
command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT.
core.attributesFile
In addition to .gitattributes (per-directory) and
.git/info/attributes, Git looks into this file for attributes
(see gitattributes(5)). Path expansions are made the same way
as for core.excludesFile. Its default value is
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/attributes. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is
either not set or empty, $HOME/.config/git/attributes is used
instead.
core.hooksPath
By default Git will look for your hooks in the $GIT_DIR/hooks
directory. Set this to different path, e.g. /etc/git/hooks,
and Git will try to find your hooks in that directory, e.g.
/etc/git/hooks/pre-receive instead of in
$GIT_DIR/hooks/pre-receive.
The path can be either absolute or relative. A relative path
is taken as relative to the directory where the hooks are run
(see the "DESCRIPTION" section of githooks(5)).
This configuration variable is useful in cases where you'd
like to centrally configure your Git hooks instead of
configuring them on a per-repository basis, or as a more
flexible and centralized alternative to having an
init.templateDir where you've changed default hooks.
core.editor
Commands such as commit and tag that let you edit messages by
launching an editor use the value of this variable when it is
set, and the environment variable GIT_EDITOR is not set. See
git-var(1).
core.commentChar
Commands such as commit and tag that let you edit messages
consider a line that begins with this character commented,
and removes them after the editor returns (default #).
If set to "auto", git-commit would select a character that is
not the beginning character of any line in existing commit
messages.
core.filesRefLockTimeout
The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to
lock an individual reference. Value 0 means not to retry at
all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 100 (i.e.,
retry for 100ms).
core.packedRefsTimeout
The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to
lock the packed-refs file. Value 0 means not to retry at all;
-1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry
for 1 second).
core.pager
Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., less). The value
is meant to be interpreted by the shell. The order of
preference is the $GIT_PAGER environment variable, then
core.pager configuration, then $PAGER, and then the default
chosen at compile time (usually less).
When the LESS environment variable is unset, Git sets it to
FRX (if LESS environment variable is set, Git does not change
it at all). If you want to selectively override Git's default
setting for LESS, you can set core.pager to e.g. less -S.
This will be passed to the shell by Git, which will translate
the final command to LESS=FRX less -S. The environment does
not set the S option but the command line does, instructing
less to truncate long lines. Similarly, setting core.pager to
less -+F will deactivate the F option specified by the
environment from the command-line, deactivating the "quit if
one screen" behavior of less. One can specifically activate
some flags for particular commands: for example, setting
pager.blame to less -S enables line truncation only for git
blame.
Likewise, when the LV environment variable is unset, Git sets
it to -c. You can override this setting by exporting LV with
another value or setting core.pager to lv +c.
core.whitespace
A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to
notice. git diff will use color.diff.whitespace to highlight
them, and git apply --whitespace=error will consider them as
errors. You can prefix - to disable any of them (e.g.
-trailing-space):
• 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.
core.fsyncObjectFiles
This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files.
This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that
orders data writes properly, but can be useful for
filesystems that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX
filesystems) or that only journal metadata and not file
contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback").
core.preloadIndex
Enable parallel index preload for operations like git diff
This can speed up operations like git diff and git status
especially on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching
semantics and thus relatively high IO latencies. When
enabled, Git will do the index comparison to the filesystem
data in parallel, allowing overlapping IO's. Defaults to
true.
core.unsetenvvars
Windows-only: comma-separated list of environment variables'
names that need to be unset before spawning any other
process. Defaults to PERL5LIB to account for the fact that
Git for Windows insists on using its own Perl interpreter.
core.restrictinheritedhandles
Windows-only: override whether spawned processes inherit only
standard file handles (stdin, stdout and stderr) or all
handles. Can be auto, true or false. Defaults to auto, which
means true on Windows 7 and later, and false on older Windows
versions.
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.commitGraph
If true, then git will read the commit-graph file (if it
exists) to parse the graph structure of commits. Defaults to
true. See git-commit-graph(1) for more information.
core.useReplaceRefs
If set to false, behave as if the --no-replace-objects option
was given on the command line. See git(1) and git-replace(1)
for more information.
core.multiPackIndex
Use the multi-pack-index file to track multiple packfiles
using a single index. See git-multi-pack-index(1) for more
information. Defaults to true.
core.sparseCheckout
Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See git-sparse-checkout(1)
for more information.
core.sparseCheckoutCone
Enables the "cone mode" of the sparse checkout feature. When
the sparse-checkout file contains a limited set of patterns,
then this mode provides significant performance advantages.
See git-sparse-checkout(1) for more information.
core.abbrev
Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If
unspecified or set to "auto", an appropriate value is
computed based on the approximate number of packed objects in
your repository, which hopefully is enough for abbreviated
object names to stay unique for some time. If set to "no", no
abbreviation is made and the object names are shown in their
full length. The minimum length is 4.
add.ignoreErrors, add.ignore-errors (deprecated)
Tells git add to continue adding files when some files cannot
be added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the
--ignore-errors option of git-add(1). add.ignore-errors is
deprecated, as it does not follow the usual naming convention
for configuration variables.
add.interactive.useBuiltin
[EXPERIMENTAL] Set to true to use the experimental built-in
implementation of the interactive version of git-add(1)
instead of the Perl script version. Is false by default.
alias.*
Command aliases for the git(1) command wrapper - e.g. after
defining alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD, the invocation
git last is equivalent to git cat-file commit HEAD. To avoid
confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide
existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by
spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. A
quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them.
Note that the first word of an alias does not necessarily
have to be a command. It can be a command-line option that
will be passed into the invocation of git. In particular,
this is useful when used with -c to pass in one-time
configurations or -p to force pagination. For example,
loud-rebase = -c commit.verbose=true rebase can be defined
such that running git loud-rebase would be equivalent to git
-c commit.verbose=true rebase. Also, ps = -p status would be
a helpful alias since git ps would paginate the output of git
status where the original command does not.
If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point,
it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining
alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD, the invocation git
new is equivalent to running the shell command gitk --all
--not ORIG_HEAD. Note that shell commands will be executed
from the top-level directory of a repository, which may not
necessarily be the current directory. GIT_PREFIX is set as
returned by running git rev-parse --show-prefix from the
original current directory. See git-rev-parse(1).
am.keepcr
If true, git-am will call git-mailsplit for patches in mbox
format with parameter --keep-cr. In this case git-mailsplit
will not remove \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).
am.threeWay
By default, git am will fail if the patch does not apply
cleanly. When set to true, this setting tells git am to fall
back on 3-way merge if the patch records the identity of
blobs it is supposed to apply to and we have those blobs
available locally (equivalent to giving the --3way option
from the command line). Defaults to false. See git-am(1).
apply.ignoreWhitespace
When set to change, tells git apply to ignore changes in
whitespace, in the same way as the --ignore-space-change
option. When set to one of: no, none, never, false tells git
apply to respect all whitespace differences. See
git-apply(1).
apply.whitespace
Tells git apply how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as
the --whitespace option. See git-apply(1).
blame.blankBoundary
Show blank commit object name for boundary commits in
git-blame(1). This option defaults to false.
blame.coloring
This determines the coloring scheme to be applied to blame
output. It can be repeatedLines, highlightRecent, or none
which is the default.
blame.date
Specifies the format used to output dates in git-blame(1). If
unset the iso format is used. For supported values, see the
discussion of the --date option at git-log(1).
blame.showEmail
Show the author email instead of author name in git-blame(1).
This option defaults to false.
blame.showRoot
Do not treat root commits as boundaries in git-blame(1). This
option defaults to false.
blame.ignoreRevsFile
Ignore revisions listed in the file, one unabbreviated object
name per line, in git-blame(1). Whitespace and comments
beginning with # are ignored. This option may be repeated
multiple times. Empty file names will reset the list of
ignored revisions. This option will be handled before the
command line option --ignore-revs-file.
blame.markUnblamableLines
Mark lines that were changed by an ignored revision that we
could not attribute to another commit with a * in the output
of git-blame(1).
blame.markIgnoredLines
Mark lines that were changed by an ignored revision that we
attributed to another commit with a ? in the output of
git-blame(1).
branch.autoSetupMerge
Tells git branch, git switch 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, git switch 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.sort
This variable controls the sort ordering of branches when
displayed by git-branch(1). Without the "--sort=<value>"
option provided, the value of this variable will be used as
the default. See git-for-each-ref(1) field names for valid
values.
branch.<name>.remote
When on branch <name>, it tells git fetch and git push which
remote to fetch from/push to. The remote to push to may be
overridden with remote.pushDefault (for all branches). The
remote to push to, for the current branch, may be further
overridden by branch.<name>.pushRemote. If no remote is
configured, or if you are not on any branch, it defaults to
origin for fetching and remote.pushDefault for pushing.
Additionally, . (a period) is the current local repository
(a dot-repository), see branch.<name>.merge's final note
below.
branch.<name>.pushRemote
When on branch <name>, it overrides branch.<name>.remote for
pushing. It also overrides remote.pushDefault for pushing
from branch <name>. When you pull from one place (e.g. your
upstream) and push to another place (e.g. your own publishing
repository), you would want to set remote.pushDefault to
specify the remote to push to for all branches, and use this
option to override it for a specific branch.
branch.<name>.merge
Defines, together with branch.<name>.remote, the upstream
branch for the given branch. It tells git fetch/git pull/git
rebase which branch to merge and can also affect git push
(see push.default). When in branch <name>, it tells git fetch
the default refspec to be marked for merging in FETCH_HEAD.
The value is handled like the remote part of a refspec, and
must match a ref which is fetched from the remote given by
"branch.<name>.remote". The merge information is used by git
pull (which at first calls git fetch) to lookup the default
branch for merging. Without this option, git pull defaults to
merge the first refspec fetched. Specify multiple values to
get an octopus merge. If you wish to setup git pull so that
it merges into <name> from another branch in the local
repository, you can point branch.<name>.merge to the desired
branch, and use the relative path setting . (a period) for
branch.<name>.remote.
branch.<name>.mergeOptions
Sets default options for merging into branch <name>. The
syntax and supported options are the same as those of
git-merge(1), but option values containing whitespace
characters are currently not supported.
branch.<name>.rebase
When true, rebase the branch <name> on top of the fetched
branch, instead of merging the default branch from the
default remote when "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for
doing this in a non branch-specific manner.
When merges (or just m), pass the --rebase-merges option to
git rebase so that the local merge commits are included in
the rebase (see git-rebase(1) for details).
When preserve (or just p, deprecated in favor of merges),
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 (or just i), the rebase is run
in interactive mode.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it
unless you understand the implications (see git-rebase(1) for
details).
branch.<name>.description
Branch description, can be edited with git branch
--edit-description. Branch description is automatically added
in the format-patch cover letter or request-pull summary.
browser.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The
specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed
as arguments. (See git-web--browse(1).)
browser.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool that may be used to
browse HTML help (see -w option in git-help(1)) or a working
repository in gitweb (see git-instaweb(1)).
checkout.defaultRemote
When you run git checkout <something> or git switch
<something> and only have one remote, it may implicitly fall
back on checking out and tracking e.g. origin/<something>.
This stops working as soon as you have more than one remote
with a <something> reference. This setting allows for setting
the name of a preferred remote that should always win when it
comes to disambiguation. The typical use-case is to set this
to origin.
Currently this is used by git-switch(1) and git-checkout(1)
when git checkout <something> or git switch <something> will
checkout the <something> branch on another remote, and by
git-worktree(1) when git worktree add refers to a remote
branch. This setting might be used for other checkout-like
commands or functionality in the future.
checkout.guess
Provides the default value for the --guess or --no-guess
option in git checkout and git switch. See git-switch(1) and
git-checkout(1).
checkout.workers
The number of parallel workers to use when updating the
working tree. The default is one, i.e. sequential execution.
If set to a value less than one, Git will use as many workers
as the number of logical cores available. This setting and
checkout.thresholdForParallelism affect all commands that
perform checkout. E.g. checkout, clone, reset,
sparse-checkout, etc.
Note: parallel checkout usually delivers better performance
for repositories located on SSDs or over NFS. For
repositories on spinning disks and/or machines with a small
number of cores, the default sequential checkout often
performs better. The size and compression level of a
repository might also influence how well the parallel version
performs.
checkout.thresholdForParallelism
When running parallel checkout with a small number of files,
the cost of subprocess spawning and inter-process
communication might outweigh the parallelization gains. This
setting allows to define the minimum number of files for
which parallel checkout should be attempted. The default is
100.
clean.requireForce
A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, -i or
-n. Defaults to true.
clone.defaultRemoteName
The name of the remote to create when cloning a repository.
Defaults to origin, and can be overridden by passing the
--origin command-line option to git-clone(1).
clone.rejectShallow
Reject to clone a repository if it is a shallow one, can be
overridden by passing option --reject-shallow in command
line. See git-clone(1)
color.advice
A boolean to enable/disable color in hints (e.g. when a push
failed, see advice.* for a list). May be set to always,
false (or never) or auto (or true), in which case colors are
used only when the error output goes to a terminal. If unset,
then the value of color.ui is used (auto by default).
color.advice.hint
Use customized color for hints.
color.blame.highlightRecent
This can be used to color the metadata of a blame line
depending on age of the line.
This setting should be set to a comma-separated list of color
and date settings, starting and ending with a color, the
dates should be set from oldest to newest. The metadata will
be colored given the colors if the line was introduced before
the given timestamp, overwriting older timestamped colors.
Instead of an absolute timestamp relative timestamps work as
well, e.g. 2.weeks.ago is valid to address anything older
than 2 weeks.
It defaults to blue,12 month ago,white,1 month ago,red, which
colors everything older than one year blue, recent changes
between one month and one year old are kept white, and lines
introduced within the last month are colored red.
color.blame.repeatedLines
Use the customized color for the part of git-blame output
that is repeated meta information per line (such as commit
id, author name, date and timezone). Defaults to cyan.
color.branch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
git-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or never) or auto
(or true), in which case colors are used only when the output
is to a terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is
used (auto by default).
color.branch.<slot>
Use customized color for branch coloration. <slot> is one of
current (the current branch), local (a local branch), remote
(a remote-tracking branch in refs/remotes/), upstream
(upstream tracking branch), plain (other refs).
color.diff
Whether to use ANSI escape sequences to add color to patches.
If this is set to always, git-diff(1), git-log(1), and
git-show(1) will use color for all patches. If it is set to
true or auto, those commands will only use color when output
is to the terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is
used (auto by default).
This does not affect git-format-patch(1) or the git-diff-*
plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the command line with
the --color[=<when>] option.
color.diff.<slot>
Use customized color for diff colorization. <slot> specifies
which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is
one of context (context text - plain is a historical
synonym), meta (metainformation), frag (hunk header), func
(function in hunk header), old (removed lines), new (added
lines), commit (commit headers), whitespace (highlighting
whitespace errors), oldMoved (deleted lines), newMoved (added
lines), oldMovedDimmed, oldMovedAlternative,
oldMovedAlternativeDimmed, newMovedDimmed,
newMovedAlternative newMovedAlternativeDimmed (See the <mode>
setting of --color-moved in git-diff(1) for details),
contextDimmed, oldDimmed, newDimmed, contextBold, oldBold,
and newBold (see git-range-diff(1) for details).
color.decorate.<slot>
Use customized color for git log --decorate output. <slot>
is one of branch, remoteBranch, tag, stash or HEAD for local
branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD,
respectively and grafted for grafted commits.
color.grep
When set to always, always highlight matches. When false (or
never), never. When set to true or auto, use color only when
the output is written to the terminal. If unset, then the
value of color.ui is used (auto by default).
color.grep.<slot>
Use customized color for grep colorization. <slot> specifies
which part of the line to use the specified color, and is one
of
context
non-matching text in context lines (when using -A, -B, or
-C)
filename
filename prefix (when not using -h)
function
function name lines (when using -p)
lineNumber
line number prefix (when using -n)
column
column number prefix (when using --column)
match
matching text (same as setting matchContext and
matchSelected)
matchContext
matching text in context lines
matchSelected
matching text in selected lines
selected
non-matching text in selected lines
separator
separators between fields on a line (:, -, and =) and
between hunks (--)
color.interactive
When set to always, always use colors for interactive prompts
and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive"
and "git-clean --interactive"). When false (or never), never.
When set to true or auto, use colors only when the output is
to the terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is used
(auto by default).
color.interactive.<slot>
Use customized color for git add --interactive and git clean
--interactive output. <slot> may be prompt, header, help or
error, for four distinct types of normal output from
interactive commands.
color.pager
A boolean to specify whether auto color modes should colorize
output going to the pager. Defaults to true; set this to
false if your pager does not understand ANSI color codes.
color.push
A boolean to enable/disable color in push errors. May be set
to always, false (or never) or auto (or true), in which case
colors are used only when the error output goes to a
terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is used (auto
by default).
color.push.error
Use customized color for push errors.
color.remote
If set, keywords at the start of the line are highlighted.
The keywords are "error", "warning", "hint" and "success",
and are matched case-insensitively. May be set to always,
false (or never) or auto (or true). If unset, then the value
of color.ui is used (auto by default).
color.remote.<slot>
Use customized color for each remote keyword. <slot> may be
hint, warning, success or error which match the corresponding
keyword.
color.showBranch
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
git-show-branch(1). May be set to always, false (or never) or
auto (or true), in which case colors are used only when the
output is to a terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui
is used (auto by default).
color.status
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
git-status(1). May be set to always, false (or never) or auto
(or true), in which case colors are used only when the output
is to a terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is
used (auto by default).
color.status.<slot>
Use customized color for status colorization. <slot> is one
of header (the header text of the status message), added or
updated (files which are added but not committed), changed
(files which are changed but not added in the index),
untracked (files which are not tracked by Git), branch (the
current branch), nobranch (the color the no branch warning is
shown in, defaulting to red), localBranch or remoteBranch
(the local and remote branch names, respectively, when branch
and tracking information is displayed in the status
short-format), or unmerged (files which have unmerged
changes).
color.transport
A boolean to enable/disable color when pushes are rejected.
May be set to always, false (or never) or auto (or true), in
which case colors are used only when the error output goes to
a terminal. If unset, then the value of color.ui is used
(auto by default).
color.transport.rejected
Use customized color when a push was rejected.
color.ui
This variable determines the default value for variables such
as color.diff and color.grep that control the use of color
per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands
learn configuration to set a default for the --color option.
Set it to false or never if you prefer Git commands not to
use color unless enabled explicitly with some other
configuration or the --color option. Set it to always if you
want all output not intended for machine consumption to use
color, to true or auto (this is the default since Git 1.8.4)
if you want such output to use color when written to the
terminal.
column.ui
Specify whether supported commands should output in columns.
This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by
spaces or commas:
These options control when the feature should be enabled
(defaults to never):
always
always show in columns
never
never show in columns
auto
show in columns if the output is to the terminal
These options control layout (defaults to column). Setting
any of these implies always if none of always, never, or auto
are specified.
column
fill columns before rows
row
fill rows before columns
plain
show in one column
Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option
(defaults to nodense):
dense
make unequal size columns to utilize more space
nodense
make equal size columns
column.branch
Specify whether to output branch listing in git branch in
columns. See column.ui for details.
column.clean
Specify the layout when list items in git clean -i, which
always shows files and directories in columns. See column.ui
for details.
column.status
Specify whether to output untracked files in git status in
columns. See column.ui for details.
column.tag
Specify whether to output tag listing in git tag in columns.
See column.ui for details.
commit.cleanup
This setting overrides the default of the --cleanup option in
git commit. See git-commit(1) for details. Changing the
default can be useful when you always want to keep lines that
begin with comment character # in your log message, in which
case you would do git config commit.cleanup whitespace (note
that you will have to remove the help lines that begin with #
in the commit log template yourself, if you do this).
commit.gpgSign
A boolean to specify whether all commits should be GPG
signed. Use of this option when doing operations such as
rebase can result in a large number of commits being signed.
It may be convenient to use an agent to avoid typing your GPG
passphrase several times.
commit.status
A boolean to enable/disable inclusion of status information
in the commit message template when using an editor to
prepare the commit message. Defaults to true.
commit.template
Specify the pathname of a file to use as the template for new
commit messages.
commit.verbose
A boolean or int to specify the level of verbose with git
commit. See git-commit(1).
commitGraph.generationVersion
Specifies the type of generation number version to use when
writing or reading the commit-graph file. If version 1 is
specified, then the corrected commit dates will not be
written or read. Defaults to 2.
commitGraph.maxNewFilters
Specifies the default value for the --max-new-filters option
of git commit-graph write (c.f., git-commit-graph(1)).
commitGraph.readChangedPaths
If true, then git will use the changed-path Bloom filters in
the commit-graph file (if it exists, and they are present).
Defaults to true. See git-commit-graph(1) for more
information.
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. This is normally the name of a credential helper
with possible arguments, but may also be an absolute path
with arguments or, if preceded by !, shell commands.
Note that multiple helpers may be defined. See
gitcredentials(7) for details and examples.
credential.useHttpPath
When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of
an http or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See
gitcredentials(7) for more information.
credential.username
If no username is set for a network authentication, use this
username by default. See credential.<context>.* below, and
gitcredentials(7).
credential.<url>.*
Any of the credential.* options above can be applied
selectively to some credentials. For example
"credential.https://example.com.username" would set the
default username only for https connections to example.com.
See gitcredentials(7) for details on how URLs are matched.
credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP
Tell git-credential-cache—daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of
quitting.
credentialStore.lockTimeoutMS
The length of time, in milliseconds, for git-credential-store
to retry when trying to lock the credentials file. Value 0
means not to retry at all; -1 means to try indefinitely.
Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for 1s).
completion.commands
This is only used by git-completion.bash to add or remove
commands from the list of completed commands. Normally only
porcelain commands and a few select others are completed. You
can add more commands, separated by space, in this variable.
Prefixing the command with - will remove it from the existing
list.
diff.autoRefreshIndex
When using git diff to compare with work tree files, do not
consider stat-only change as changed. Instead, silently run
git update-index --refresh to update the cached stat
information for paths whose contents in the work tree match
the contents in the index. This option defaults to true. Note
that this affects only git diff Porcelain, and not lower
level diff commands such as git diff-files.
diff.dirstat
A comma separated list of --dirstat parameters specifying the
default behavior of the --dirstat option to git-diff(1) and
friends. The defaults can be overridden on the command line
(using --dirstat=<param1,param2,...>). The fallback defaults
(when not changed by diff.dirstat) are
changes,noncumulative,3. The following parameters are
available:
changes
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that
have been removed from the source, or added to the
destination. This ignores the amount of pure code
movements within a file. In other words, rearranging
lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes.
This is the default behavior when no parameter is given.
lines
Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular
line-based diff analysis, and summing the removed/added
line counts. (For binary files, count 64-byte chunks
instead, since binary files have no natural concept of
lines). This is a more expensive --dirstat behavior than
the changes behavior, but it does count rearranged lines
within a file as much as other changes. The resulting
output is consistent with what you get from the other
--*stat options.
files
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of
files changed. Each changed file counts equally in the
dirstat analysis. This is the computationally cheapest
--dirstat behavior, since it does not have to look at the
file contents at all.
cumulative
Count changes in a child directory for the parent
directory as well. Note that when using cumulative, the
sum of the percentages reported may exceed 100%. The
default (non-cumulative) behavior can be specified with
the noncumulative parameter.
<limit>
An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by
default). Directories contributing less than this
percentage of the changes are not shown in the output.
Example: The following will count changed files, while
ignoring directories with less than 10% of the total amount
of changed files, and accumulating child directory counts in
the parent directories: files,10,cumulative.
diff.statGraphWidth
Limit the width of the graph part in --stat output. If set,
applies to all commands generating --stat output except
format-patch.
diff.context
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the
default of 3. This value is overridden by the -U option.
diff.interHunkContext
Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified
number of lines, thereby fusing the hunks that are close to
each other. This value serves as the default for the
--inter-hunk-context command line option.
diff.external
If this config variable is set, diff generation is not
performed using the internal diff machinery, but using the
given command. Can be overridden with the 'GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF'
environment variable. The command is called with parameters
as described under "git Diffs" in git(1). Note: if you want
to use an external diff program only on a subset of your
files, you might want to use gitattributes(5) instead.
diff.ignoreSubmodules
Sets the default value of --ignore-submodules. Note that this
affects only git diff Porcelain, and not lower level diff
commands such as git diff-files. git checkout and git switch
also honor 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. By
default this is set to untracked so that any untracked
submodules are ignored.
diff.mnemonicPrefix
If set, git diff uses a prefix pair that is different from
the standard "a/" and "b/" depending on what is being
compared. When this configuration is in effect, reverse diff
output also swaps the order of the prefixes:
git diff
compares the (i)ndex and the (w)ork tree;
git diff HEAD
compares a (c)ommit and the (w)ork tree;
git diff --cached
compares a (c)ommit and the (i)ndex;
git diff HEAD:file1 file2
compares an (o)bject and a (w)ork tree entity;
git diff --no-index a b
compares two non-git things (1) and (2).
diff.noprefix
If set, git diff does not show any source or destination
prefix.
diff.relative
If set to true, git diff does not show changes outside of the
directory and show pathnames relative to the current
directory.
diff.orderFile
File indicating how to order files within a diff. See the -O
option to git-diff(1) for details. If diff.orderFile is a
relative pathname, it is treated as relative to the top of
the working tree.
diff.renameLimit
The number of files to consider in the exhaustive portion of
copy/rename detection; equivalent to the git diff option -l.
If not set, the default value is currently 1000. This setting
has no effect if rename detection is turned off.
diff.renames
Whether and how Git detects renames. If set to "false",
rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename
detection is enabled. If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will
detect copies, as well. Defaults to true. Note that this
affects only git diff Porcelain like git-diff(1) and
git-log(1), and not lower level commands such as
git-diff-files(1).
diff.suppressBlankEmpty
A boolean to inhibit the standard behavior of printing a
space before each empty output line. Defaults to false.
diff.submodule
Specify the format in which differences in submodules are
shown. The "short" format just shows the names of the commits
at the beginning and end of the range. The "log" format lists
the commits in the range like git-submodule(1) summary does.
The "diff" format shows an inline diff of the changed
contents of the submodule. Defaults to "short".
diff.wordRegex
A POSIX Extended Regular Expression used to determine what is
a "word" when performing word-by-word difference
calculations. Character sequences that match the regular
expression are "words", all other characters are ignorable
whitespace.
diff.<driver>.command
The custom diff driver command. See gitattributes(5) for
details.
diff.<driver>.xfuncname
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
recognize the hunk header. A built-in pattern may also be
used. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.binary
Set this option to true to make the diff driver treat files
as binary. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.textconv
The command that the diff driver should call to generate the
text-converted version of a file. The result of the
conversion is used to generate a human-readable diff. See
gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.wordRegex
The regular expression that the diff driver should use to
split words in a line. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.<driver>.cachetextconv
Set this option to true to make the diff driver cache the
text conversion outputs. See gitattributes(5) for details.
diff.tool
Controls which diff tool is used by git-difftool(1). This
variable overrides the value configured in merge.tool. The
list below shows the valid built-in values. Any other value
is treated as a custom diff tool and requires that a
corresponding difftool.<tool>.cmd variable is defined.
diff.guitool
Controls which diff tool is used by git-difftool(1) when the
-g/--gui flag is specified. This variable overrides the value
configured in merge.guitool. 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.<guitool>.cmd
variable is defined.
• araxis
• bc
• bc3
• bc4
• codecompare
• deltawalker
• diffmerge
• diffuse
• ecmerge
• emerge
• examdiff
• guiffy
• gvimdiff
• gvimdiff1
• gvimdiff2
• gvimdiff3
• kdiff3
• kompare
• meld
• nvimdiff
• nvimdiff1
• nvimdiff2
• nvimdiff3
• opendiff
• p4merge
• smerge
• tkdiff
• vimdiff
• vimdiff1
• vimdiff2
• vimdiff3
• winmerge
• xxdiff
diff.indentHeuristic
Set this option to false to disable the default heuristics
that shift diff hunk boundaries to make patches easier to
read.
diff.algorithm
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
default, myers
The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the
default.
minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff
is produced.
patience
Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
histogram
This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support
low-occurrence common elements".
diff.wsErrorHighlight
Highlight whitespace errors in the context, old or new lines
of the diff. Multiple values are separated by comma, none
resets previous values, default reset the list to new and all
is a shorthand for old,new,context. The whitespace errors are
colored with color.diff.whitespace. The command line option
--ws-error-highlight=<kind> overrides this setting.
diff.colorMoved
If set to either a valid <mode> or a true value, moved lines
in a diff are colored differently, for details of valid modes
see --color-moved in git-diff(1). If simply set to true the
default color mode will be used. When set to false, moved
lines are not colored.
diff.colorMovedWS
When moved lines are colored using e.g. the diff.colorMoved
setting, this option controls the <mode> how spaces are
treated for details of valid modes see --color-moved-ws in
git-diff(1).
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.
extensions.objectFormat
Specify the hash algorithm to use. The acceptable values are
sha1 and sha256. If not specified, sha1 is assumed. It is an
error to specify this key unless core.repositoryFormatVersion
is 1.
Note that this setting should only be set by git-init(1) or
git-clone(1). Trying to change it after initialization will
not work and will produce hard-to-diagnose issues.
fastimport.unpackLimit
If the number of objects imported by git-fast-import(1) is
below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into
loose object files. However if the number of imported objects
equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as
a pack. Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the
import operation complete faster, especially on slow
filesystems. If not set, the value of transfer.unpackLimit is
used instead.
feature.*
The config settings that start with feature. modify the
defaults of a group of other config settings. These groups
are created by the Git developer community as recommended
defaults and are subject to change. In particular, new config
options may be added with different defaults.
feature.experimental
Enable config options that are new to Git, and are being
considered for future defaults. Config settings included here
may be added or removed with each release, including minor
version updates. These settings may have unintended
interactions since they are so new. Please enable this
setting if you are interested in providing feedback on
experimental features. The new default values are:
• fetch.negotiationAlgorithm=skipping may improve fetch
negotiation times by skipping more commits at a time,
reducing the number of round trips.
feature.manyFiles
Enable config options that optimize for repos with many files
in the working directory. With many files, commands such as
git status and git checkout may be slow and these new
defaults improve performance:
• index.version=4 enables path-prefix compression in the
index.
• core.untrackedCache=true enables the untracked cache.
This setting assumes that mtime is working on your
machine.
fetch.recurseSubmodules
This option controls whether git fetch (and the underlying
fetch in git pull) will recursively fetch into populated
submodules. This option can be set either to a boolean value
or to on-demand. Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior
of fetch and pull to recurse unconditionally into submodules
when set to true or to not recurse at all when set to false.
When set to on-demand, fetch and pull will only recurse into
a populated submodule when its superproject retrieves a
commit that updates the submodule's reference. Defaults to
on-demand, or to the value of submodule.recurse if set.
fetch.fsckObjects
If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched
objects. See transfer.fsckObjects for what's checked.
Defaults to false. If not set, the value of
transfer.fsckObjects is used instead.
fetch.fsck.<msg-id>
Acts like fsck.<msg-id>, but is used by git-fetch-pack(1)
instead of git-fsck(1). See the fsck.<msg-id> documentation
for details.
fetch.fsck.skipList
Acts like fsck.skipList, but is used by git-fetch-pack(1)
instead of git-fsck(1). See the fsck.skipList documentation
for details.
fetch.unpackLimit
If the number of objects fetched over the Git native transfer
is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into
loose object files. However if the number of received objects
equals or exceeds this limit then the received pack will be
stored as a pack, after adding any missing delta bases.
Storing the pack from a push can make the push operation
complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set,
the value of transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
fetch.prune
If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the --prune
option was given on the command line. See also
remote.<name>.prune and the PRUNING section of git-fetch(1).
fetch.pruneTags
If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the
refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* refspec was provided when pruning, if
not set already. This allows for setting both this option and
fetch.prune to maintain a 1=1 mapping to upstream refs. See
also remote.<name>.pruneTags and the PRUNING section of
git-fetch(1).
fetch.output
Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are
full and compact. Default value is full. See section OUTPUT
in git-fetch(1) for detail.
fetch.negotiationAlgorithm
Control how information about the commits in the local
repository is sent when negotiating the contents of the
packfile to be sent by the server. Set to "skipping" to use
an algorithm that skips commits in an effort to converge
faster, but may result in a larger-than-necessary packfile;
or set to "noop" to not send any information at all, which
will almost certainly result in a larger-than-necessary
packfile, but will skip the negotiation step. The default is
"default" which instructs Git to use the default algorithm
that never skips commits (unless the server has acknowledged
it or one of its descendants). If feature.experimental is
enabled, then this setting defaults to "skipping". Unknown
values will cause git fetch to error out.
See also the --negotiate-only and --negotiation-tip options
to git-fetch(1).
fetch.showForcedUpdates
Set to false to enable --no-show-forced-updates in
git-fetch(1) and git-pull(1) commands. Defaults to true.
fetch.parallel
Specifies the maximal number of fetch operations to be run in
parallel at a time (submodules, or remotes when the
--multiple option of git-fetch(1) is in effect).
A value of 0 will give some reasonable default. If unset, it
defaults to 1.
For submodules, this setting can be overridden using the
submodule.fetchJobs config setting.
fetch.writeCommitGraph
Set to true to write a commit-graph after every git fetch
command that downloads a pack-file from a remote. Using the
--split option, most executions will create a very small
commit-graph file on top of the existing commit-graph
file(s). Occasionally, these files will merge and the write
may take longer. Having an updated commit-graph file helps
performance of many Git commands, including git merge-base,
git push -f, and git log --graph. Defaults to false.
format.attach
Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for
format-patch. The value can also be a double quoted string
which will enable attachments as the default and set the
value as the boundary. See the --attach option in
git-format-patch(1).
format.from
Provides the default value for the --from option to
format-patch. Accepts a boolean value, or a name and email
address. If false, format-patch defaults to --no-from, using
commit authors directly in the "From:" field of patch mails.
If true, format-patch defaults to --from, using your
committer identity in the "From:" field of patch mails and
including a "From:" field in the body of the patch mail if
different. If set to a non-boolean value, format-patch uses
that value instead of your committer identity. Defaults to
false.
format.numbered
A boolean which can enable or disable sequence numbers in
patch subjects. It defaults to "auto" which enables it only
if there is more than one patch. It can be enabled or
disabled for all messages by setting it to "true" or "false".
See --numbered option in git-format-patch(1).
format.headers
Additional email headers to include in a patch to be
submitted by mail. See git-format-patch(1).
format.to, format.cc
Additional recipients to include in a patch to be submitted
by mail. See the --to and --cc options in
git-format-patch(1).
format.subjectPrefix
The default for format-patch is to output files with the
[PATCH] subject prefix. Use this variable to change that
prefix.
format.coverFromDescription
The default mode for format-patch to determine which parts of
the cover letter will be populated using the branch's
description. See the --cover-from-description option in
git-format-patch(1).
format.signature
The default for format-patch is to output a signature
containing the Git version number. Use this variable to
change that default. Set this variable to the empty string
("") to suppress signature generation.
format.signatureFile
Works just like format.signature except the contents of the
file specified by this variable will be used as the
signature.
format.suffix
The default for format-patch is to output files with the
suffix .patch. Use this variable to change that suffix (make
sure to include the dot if you want it).
format.encodeEmailHeaders
Encode email headers that have non-ASCII characters with
"Q-encoding" (described in RFC 2047) for email transmission.
Defaults to true.
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
trailer to a patch should be a conscious act and means that
you certify you have the rights to submit this work under the
same open source license. Please see the SubmittingPatches
document for further discussion.
format.coverLetter
A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter
when format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to
"auto", to generate a cover-letter only when there's more
than one patch. Default is false.
format.outputDirectory
Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead
of the current working directory. All directory components
will be created.
format.filenameMaxLength
The maximum length of the output filenames generated by the
format-patch command; defaults to 64. Can be overridden by
the --filename-max-length=<n> command line option.
format.useAutoBase
A boolean value which lets you enable the --base=auto option
of format-patch by default. Can also be set to "whenAble" to
allow enabling --base=auto if a suitable base is available,
but to skip adding base info otherwise without the format
dying.
format.notes
Provides the default value for the --notes option to
format-patch. Accepts a boolean value, or a ref which
specifies where to get notes. If false, format-patch defaults
to --no-notes. If true, format-patch defaults to --notes. If
set to a non-boolean value, format-patch defaults to
--notes=<ref>, where ref is the non-boolean value. Defaults
to false.
If one wishes to use the ref ref/notes/true, please use that
literal instead.
This configuration can be specified multiple times in order
to allow multiple notes refs to be included. In that case, it
will behave similarly to multiple --[no-]notes[=] options
passed in. That is, a value of true will show the default
notes, a value of <ref> will also show notes from that notes
ref and a value of false will negate previous configurations
and not show notes.
For example,
[format]
notes = true
notes = foo
notes = false
notes = bar
will only show notes from refs/notes/bar.
filter.<driver>.clean
The command which is used to convert the content of a
worktree file to a blob upon checkin. See gitattributes(5)
for details.
filter.<driver>.smudge
The command which is used to convert the content of a blob
object to a worktree file upon checkout. See gitattributes(5)
for details.
fsck.<msg-id>
During fsck git may find issues with legacy data which
wouldn't be generated by current versions of git, and which
wouldn't be sent over the wire if transfer.fsckObjects was
set. This feature is intended to support working with legacy
repositories containing such data.
Setting fsck.<msg-id> will be picked up by git-fsck(1), but
to accept pushes of such data set receive.fsck.<msg-id>
instead, or to clone or fetch it set fetch.fsck.<msg-id>.
The rest of the documentation discusses fsck.* for brevity,
but the same applies for the corresponding receive.fsck.*
and fetch.<msg-id>.*. variables.
Unlike variables like color.ui and core.editor the
receive.fsck.<msg-id> and fetch.fsck.<msg-id> variables will
not fall back on the fsck.<msg-id> configuration if they
aren't set. To uniformly configure the same fsck settings in
different circumstances all three of them they must all set
to the same values.
When fsck.<msg-id> is set, errors can be switched to warnings
and vice versa by configuring the 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 fsck.missingEmail = ignore will hide that issue.
In general, it is better to enumerate existing objects with
problems with fsck.skipList, instead of listing the kind of
breakages these problematic objects share to be ignored, as
doing the latter will allow new instances of the same
breakages go unnoticed.
Setting an unknown fsck.<msg-id> value will cause fsck to
die, but doing the same for receive.fsck.<msg-id> and
fetch.fsck.<msg-id> will only cause git to warn.
fsck.skipList
The path to a list of object names (i.e. one unabbreviated
SHA-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal
way and should be ignored. On versions of Git 2.20 and later
comments (#), empty lines, and any leading and trailing
whitespace is ignored. Everything but a SHA-1 per line will
error out on older versions.
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.
Like fsck.<msg-id> this variable has corresponding
receive.fsck.skipList and fetch.fsck.skipList variants.
Unlike variables like color.ui and core.editor the
receive.fsck.skipList and fetch.fsck.skipList variables will
not fall back on the fsck.skipList configuration if they
aren't set. To uniformly configure the same fsck settings in
different circumstances all three of them they must all set
to the same values.
Older versions of Git (before 2.20) documented that the
object names list should be sorted. This was never a
requirement, the object names could appear in any order, but
when reading the list we tracked whether the list was sorted
for the purposes of an internal binary search implementation,
which could save itself some work with an already sorted
list. Unless you had a humongous list there was no reason to
go out of your way to pre-sort the list. After Git version
2.20 a hash implementation is used instead, so there's now no
reason to pre-sort the list.
gc.aggressiveDepth
The depth parameter used in the delta compression algorithm
used by git gc --aggressive. This defaults to 50, which is
the default for the --depth option when --aggressive isn't in
use.
See the documentation for the --depth option in git-repack(1)
for more details.
gc.aggressiveWindow
The window size parameter used in the delta compression
algorithm used by git gc --aggressive. This defaults to 250,
which is a much more aggressive window size than the default
--window of 10.
See the documentation for the --window option in
git-repack(1) for more details.
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 not only automatic packing based
on the number of loose objects, but any other heuristic git
gc --auto will otherwise use to determine if there's work to
do, such as gc.autoPackLimit.
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. Setting gc.auto to 0 will
also disable this.
See the gc.bigPackThreshold configuration variable below.
When in use, it'll affect how the auto pack limit works.
gc.autoDetach
Make git gc --auto return immediately and run in background
if the system supports it. Default is true.
gc.bigPackThreshold
If non-zero, all packs larger than this limit are kept when
git gc is run. This is very similar to --keep-largest-pack
except that all packs that meet the threshold are kept, not
just the largest pack. Defaults to zero. Common unit suffixes
of k, m, or g are supported.
Note that if the number of kept packs is more than
gc.autoPackLimit, this configuration variable is ignored, all
packs except the base pack will be repacked. After this the
number of packs should go below gc.autoPackLimit and
gc.bigPackThreshold should be respected again.
If the amount of memory estimated for git repack to run
smoothly is not available and gc.bigPackThreshold is not set,
the largest pack will also be excluded (this is the
equivalent of running git gc with --keep-largest-pack).
gc.writeCommitGraph
If true, then gc will rewrite the commit-graph file when
git-gc(1) is run. When using git gc --auto the commit-graph
will be updated if housekeeping is required. Default is true.
See git-commit-graph(1) for details.
gc.logExpiry
If the file gc.log exists, then git gc --auto will print its
content and exit with status zero instead of running unless
that file is more than gc.logExpiry old. Default is "1.day".
See gc.pruneExpire for more ways to specify its value.
gc.packRefs
Running git pack-refs in a repository renders it unclonable
by Git versions prior to 1.5.1.2 over dumb transports such as
HTTP. This variable determines whether git gc runs git
pack-refs. This can be set to notbare to enable it within all
non-bare repos or it can be set to a boolean value. The
default is true.
gc.pruneExpire
When git gc is run, it will call prune --expire 2.weeks.ago.
Override the grace period with this config variable. The
value "now" may be used to disable this grace period and
always prune unreachable objects immediately, or "never" may
be used to suppress pruning. This feature helps prevent
corruption when git gc runs concurrently with another process
writing to the repository; see the "NOTES" section of
git-gc(1).
gc.worktreePruneExpire
When git gc is run, it calls git worktree prune --expire
3.months.ago. This config variable can be used to set a
different grace period. The value "now" may be used to
disable the grace period and prune $GIT_DIR/worktrees
immediately, or "never" may be used to suppress pruning.
gc.reflogExpire, gc.<pattern>.reflogExpire
git reflog expire removes reflog entries older than this
time; defaults to 90 days. The value "now" expires all
entries immediately, and "never" suppresses expiration
altogether. With "<pattern>" (e.g. "refs/stash") in the
middle the setting applies only to the refs that match the
<pattern>.
gc.reflogExpireUnreachable, gc.<pattern>.reflogExpireUnreachable
git reflog expire removes reflog entries older than this time
and are not reachable from the current tip; defaults to 30
days. The value "now" expires all entries immediately, and
"never" suppresses expiration altogether. With "<pattern>"
(e.g. "refs/stash") in the middle, the setting applies only
to the refs that match the <pattern>.
These types of entries are generally created as a result of
using git commit --amend or git rebase and are the commits
prior to the amend or rebase occurring. Since these changes
are not part of the current project most users will want to
expire them sooner, which is why the default is more
aggressive than gc.reflogExpire.
gc.rerereResolved
Records of conflicted merge you resolved earlier are kept for
this many days when git rerere gc is run. You can also use
more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc. The default is 60
days. See git-rerere(1).
gc.rerereUnresolved
Records of conflicted merge you have not resolved are kept
for this many days when git rerere gc is run. You can also
use more human-readable "1.month.ago", etc. The default is 15
days. See git-rerere(1).
gitcvs.commitMsgAnnotation
Append this string to each commit message. Set to empty
string to disable this feature. Defaults to "via git-CVS
emulator".
gitcvs.enabled
Whether the CVS server interface is enabled for this
repository. See git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.logFile
Path to a log file where the CVS server interface well...
logs various stuff. See git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.usecrlfattr
If true, the server will look up the end-of-line conversion
attributes for files to determine the -k modes to use. If the
attributes force Git to treat a file as text, the -k mode
will be left blank so CVS clients will treat it as text. If
they suppress text conversion, the file will be set with -kb
mode, which suppresses any newline munging the client might
otherwise do. If the attributes do not allow the file type to
be determined, then gitcvs.allBinary is used. See
gitattributes(5).
gitcvs.allBinary
This is used if gitcvs.usecrlfattr does not resolve the
correct -kb mode to use. If true, all unresolved files are
sent to the client in mode -kb. This causes the client to
treat them as binary files, which suppresses any newline
munging it otherwise might do. Alternatively, if it is set to
"guess", then the contents of the file are examined to decide
if it is binary, similar to core.autocrlf.
gitcvs.dbName
Database used by git-cvsserver to cache revision information
derived from the Git repository. The exact meaning depends on
the used database driver, for SQLite (which is the default
driver) this is a filename. Supports variable substitution
(see git-cvsserver(1) for details). May not contain
semicolons (;). Default: %Ggitcvs.%m.sqlite
gitcvs.dbDriver
Used Perl DBI driver. You can specify any available driver
for this here, but it might not work. git-cvsserver is tested
with DBD::SQLite, reported to work with DBD::Pg, and reported
not to work with DBD::mysql. Experimental feature. May not
contain double colons (:). Default: SQLite. See
git-cvsserver(1).
gitcvs.dbUser, gitcvs.dbPass
Database user and password. Only useful if setting
gitcvs.dbDriver, since SQLite has no concept of database
users and/or passwords. gitcvs.dbUser supports variable
substitution (see git-cvsserver(1) for details).
gitcvs.dbTableNamePrefix
Database table name prefix. Prepended to the names of any
database tables used, allowing a single database to be used
for several repositories. Supports variable substitution (see
git-cvsserver(1) for details). Any non-alphabetic characters
will be replaced with underscores.
All gitcvs variables except for gitcvs.usecrlfattr and
gitcvs.allBinary can also be specified as
gitcvs.<access_method>.<varname> (where access_method is one of
"ext" and "pserver") to make them apply only for the given access
method.
gitweb.category, gitweb.description, gitweb.owner, gitweb.url
See gitweb(1) for description.
gitweb.avatar, gitweb.blame, gitweb.grep, gitweb.highlight,
gitweb.patches, gitweb.pickaxe, gitweb.remote_heads,
gitweb.showSizes, gitweb.snapshot
See gitweb.conf(5) for description.
grep.lineNumber
If set to true, enable -n option by default.
grep.column
If set to true, enable the --column option by default.
grep.patternType
Set the default matching behavior. Using a value of basic,
extended, fixed, or perl will enable the --basic-regexp,
--extended-regexp, --fixed-strings, or --perl-regexp option
accordingly, while the value default will return to the
default matching behavior.
grep.extendedRegexp
If set to true, enable --extended-regexp option by default.
This option is ignored when the grep.patternType option is
set to a value other than default.
grep.threads
Number of grep worker threads to use. See grep.threads in
git-grep(1) for more information.
grep.fallbackToNoIndex
If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep
is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
gpg.program
Use this custom program instead of "gpg" found on $PATH when
making or verifying a PGP signature. The program must support
the same command-line interface as GPG, namely, to verify a
detached signature, "gpg --verify $signature - <$file" 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.
gpg.format
Specifies which key format to use when signing with
--gpg-sign. Default is "openpgp" and another possible value
is "x509".
gpg.<format>.program
Use this to customize the program used for the signing format
you chose. (see gpg.program and gpg.format) gpg.program can
still be used as a legacy synonym for gpg.openpgp.program.
The default value for gpg.x509.program is "gpgsm".
gpg.minTrustLevel
Specifies a minimum trust level for signature verification.
If this option is unset, then signature verification for
merge operations require a key with at least marginal trust.
Other operations that perform signature verification require
a key with at least undefined trust. Setting this option
overrides the required trust-level for all operations.
Supported values, in increasing order of significance:
• undefined
• never
• marginal
• fully
• ultimate
gui.commitMsgWidth
Defines how wide the commit message window is in the
git-gui(1). "75" is the default.
gui.diffContext
Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to
diff made by the git-gui(1). The default is "5".
gui.displayUntracked
Determines if git-gui(1) shows untracked files in the file
list. The default is "true".
gui.encoding
Specifies the default encoding to use for displaying of file
contents in git-gui(1) and gitk(1). It can be overridden by
setting the encoding attribute for relevant files (see
gitattributes(5)). If this option is not set, the tools
default to the locale encoding.
gui.matchTrackingBranch
Determines if new branches created with git-gui(1) should
default to tracking remote branches with matching names or
not. Default: "false".
gui.newBranchTemplate
Is used as suggested name when creating new branches using
the git-gui(1).
gui.pruneDuringFetch
"true" if git-gui(1) should prune remote-tracking branches
when performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
gui.trustmtime
Determines if git-gui(1) should trust the file modification
timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.
gui.spellingDictionary
Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit
messages in the git-gui(1). When set to "none" spell checking
is turned off.
gui.fastCopyBlame
If true, git gui blame uses -C instead of -C -C for original
location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on
huge repositories at the expense of less thorough copy
detection.
gui.copyBlameThreshold
Specifies the threshold to use in git gui blame original
location detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See
the git-blame(1) manual for more information on copy
detection.
gui.blamehistoryctx
Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in
gitk(1) for the selected commit, when the Show History
Context menu item is invoked from git gui blame. If this
variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.
guitool.<name>.cmd
Specifies the shell command line to execute when the
corresponding item of the git-gui(1) Tools menu is invoked.
This option is mandatory for every tool. The command is
executed from the root of the working directory, and in the
environment it receives the name of the tool as GIT_GUITOOL,
the name of the currently selected file as FILENAME, and the
name of the current branch as CUR_BRANCH (if the head is
detached, CUR_BRANCH is empty).
guitool.<name>.needsFile
Run the tool only if a diff is selected in the GUI. It
guarantees that FILENAME is not empty.
guitool.<name>.noConsole
Run the command silently, without creating a window to
display its output.
guitool.<name>.noRescan
Don't rescan the working directory for changes after the tool
finishes execution.
guitool.<name>.confirm
Show a confirmation dialog before actually running the tool.
guitool.<name>.argPrompt
Request a string argument from the user, and pass it to the
tool through the ARGS environment variable. Since requesting
an argument implies confirmation, the confirm option has no
effect if this is enabled. If the option is set to true, yes,
or 1, the dialog uses a built-in generic prompt; otherwise
the exact value of the variable is used.
guitool.<name>.revPrompt
Request a single valid revision from the user, and set the
REVISION environment variable. In other aspects this option
is similar to argPrompt, and can be used together with it.
guitool.<name>.revUnmerged
Show only unmerged branches in the revPrompt subdialog. This
is useful for tools similar to merge or rebase, but not for
things like checkout or reset.
guitool.<name>.title
Specifies the title to use for the prompt dialog. The default
is the tool name.
guitool.<name>.prompt
Specifies the general prompt string to display at the top of
the dialog, before subsections for argPrompt and revPrompt.
The default value includes the actual command.
help.browser
Specify the browser that will be used to display help in the
web format. See git-help(1).
help.format
Override the default help format used by git-help(1). Values
man, info, web and html are supported. man is the default.
web and html are the same.
help.autoCorrect
If git detects typos and can identify exactly one valid
command similar to the error, git will automatically run the
intended command after waiting a duration of time defined by
this configuration value in deciseconds (0.1 sec). If this
value is 0, the suggested corrections will be shown, but not
executed. If it is a negative integer, or "immediate", the
suggested command is run immediately. If "never", suggestions
are not shown at all. The default value is zero.
help.htmlPath
Specify the path where the HTML documentation resides. File
system paths and URLs are supported. HTML pages will be
prefixed with this path when help is displayed in the web
format. This defaults to the documentation path of your Git
installation.
http.proxy
Override the HTTP proxy, normally configured using the
http_proxy, https_proxy, and all_proxy environment variables
(see curl(1)). In addition to the syntax understood by curl,
it is possible to specify a proxy string with a user name but
no password, in which case git will attempt to acquire one in
the same way it does for other credentials. See
gitcredentials(7) for more information. The syntax thus is
[protocol://][user[:password]@]proxyhost[:port]. This can be
overridden on a per-remote basis; see remote.<name>.proxy
http.proxyAuthMethod
Set the method with which to authenticate against the HTTP
proxy. This only takes effect if the configured proxy string
contains a user name part (i.e. is of the form user@host or
user@host:port). This can be overridden on a per-remote
basis; see remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod. Both can be
overridden by the GIT_HTTP_PROXY_AUTHMETHOD environment
variable. Possible values are:
• 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))
http.proxySSLCert
The pathname of a file that stores a client certificate to
use to authenticate with an HTTPS proxy. Can be overridden by
the GIT_PROXY_SSL_CERT environment variable.
http.proxySSLKey
The pathname of a file that stores a private key to use to
authenticate with an HTTPS proxy. Can be overridden by the
GIT_PROXY_SSL_KEY environment variable.
http.proxySSLCertPasswordProtected
Enable Git's password prompt for the proxy 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_PROXY_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED
environment variable.
http.proxySSLCAInfo
Pathname to the file containing the certificate bundle that
should be used to verify the proxy with when using an HTTPS
proxy. Can be overridden by the GIT_PROXY_SSL_CAINFO
environment variable.
http.emptyAuth
Attempt authentication without seeking a username or
password. This can be used to attempt GSS-Negotiate
authentication without specifying a username in the URL, as
libcurl normally requires a username for authentication.
http.delegation
Control GSSAPI credential delegation. The delegation is
disabled by default in libcurl since version 7.21.7. Set
parameter to tell the server what it is allowed to delegate
when it comes to user credentials. Used with GSS/kerberos.
Possible values are:
• 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.
http.extraHeader
Pass an additional HTTP header when communicating with a
server. If more than one such entry exists, all of them are
added as extra headers. To allow overriding the settings
inherited from the system config, an empty value will reset
the extra headers to the empty list.
http.cookieFile
The pathname of a file containing previously stored cookie
lines, which should be used in the Git http session, if they
match the server. The file format of the file to read cookies
from should be plain HTTP headers or the Netscape/Mozilla
cookie file format (see curl(1)). NOTE that the file
specified with http.cookieFile is used only as input unless
http.saveCookies is set.
http.saveCookies
If set, store cookies received during requests to the file
specified by http.cookieFile. Has no effect if
http.cookieFile is unset.
http.version
Use the specified HTTP protocol version when communicating
with a server. If you want to force the default. The
available and default version depend on libcurl. Currently
the possible values of this option are:
• HTTP/2
• HTTP/1.1
http.sslVersion
The SSL version to use when negotiating an SSL connection, if
you want to force the default. The available and default
version depend on whether libcurl was built against NSS or
OpenSSL and the particular configuration of the crypto
library in use. Internally this sets the CURLOPT_SSL_VERSION
option; see the libcurl documentation for more details on the
format of this option and for the ssl version supported.
Currently the possible values of this option are:
• sslv2
• sslv3
• tlsv1
• tlsv1.0
• tlsv1.1
• tlsv1.2
• tlsv1.3
Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_VERSION environment
variable. To force git to use libcurl's default ssl version
and ignore any explicit http.sslversion option, set
GIT_SSL_VERSION to the empty string.
http.sslCipherList
A list of SSL ciphers to use when negotiating an SSL
connection. The available ciphers depend on whether libcurl
was built against NSS or OpenSSL and the particular
configuration of the crypto library in use. Internally this
sets the CURLOPT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST option; see the libcurl
documentation for more details on the format of this list.
Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST environment
variable. To force git to use libcurl's default cipher list
and ignore any explicit http.sslCipherList option, set
GIT_SSL_CIPHER_LIST to the empty string.
http.sslVerify
Whether to verify the SSL certificate when fetching or
pushing over HTTPS. Defaults to true. Can be overridden by
the GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY environment variable.
http.sslCert
File containing the SSL certificate when fetching or pushing
over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_CERT environment
variable.
http.sslKey
File containing the SSL private key when fetching or pushing
over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the GIT_SSL_KEY environment
variable.
http.sslCertPasswordProtected
Enable Git's password prompt for the SSL certificate.
Otherwise OpenSSL will prompt the user, possibly many times,
if the certificate or private key is encrypted. Can be
overridden by the GIT_SSL_CERT_PASSWORD_PROTECTED environment
variable.
http.sslCAInfo
File containing the certificates to verify the peer with when
fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be overridden by the
GIT_SSL_CAINFO environment variable.
http.sslCAPath
Path containing files with the CA certificates to verify the
peer with when fetching or pushing over HTTPS. Can be
overridden by the GIT_SSL_CAPATH environment variable.
http.sslBackend
Name of the SSL backend to use (e.g. "openssl" or
"schannel"). This option is ignored if cURL lacks support for
choosing the SSL backend at runtime.
http.schannelCheckRevoke
Used to enforce or disable certificate revocation checks in
cURL when http.sslBackend is set to "schannel". Defaults to
true if unset. Only necessary to disable this if Git
consistently errors and the message is about checking the
revocation status of a certificate. This option is ignored if
cURL lacks support for setting the relevant SSL option at
runtime.
http.schannelUseSSLCAInfo
As of cURL v7.60.0, the Secure Channel backend can use the
certificate bundle provided via http.sslCAInfo, but that
would override the Windows Certificate Store. Since this is
not desirable by default, Git will tell cURL not to use that
bundle by default when the schannel backend was configured
via http.sslBackend, unless http.schannelUseSSLCAInfo
overrides this behavior.
http.pinnedpubkey
Public key of the https service. It may either be the
filename of a PEM or DER encoded public key file or a string
starting with sha256// followed by the base64 encoded sha256
hash of the public key. See also libcurl
CURLOPT_PINNEDPUBLICKEY. git will exit with an error if this
option is set but not supported by cURL.
http.sslTry
Attempt to use AUTH SSL/TLS and encrypted data transfers when
connecting via regular FTP protocol. This might be needed if
the FTP server requires it for security reasons or you wish
to connect securely whenever remote FTP server supports it.
Default is false since it might trigger certificate
verification errors on misconfigured servers.
http.maxRequests
How many HTTP requests to launch in parallel. Can be
overridden by the GIT_HTTP_MAX_REQUESTS environment variable.
Default is 5.
http.minSessions
The number of curl sessions (counted across slots) to be kept
across requests. They will not be ended with
curl_easy_cleanup() until http_cleanup() is invoked. If
USE_CURL_MULTI is not defined, this value will be capped at
1. Defaults to 1.
http.postBuffer
Maximum size in bytes of the buffer used by smart HTTP
transports when POSTing data to the remote system. For
requests larger than this buffer size, HTTP/1.1 and
Transfer-Encoding: chunked is used to avoid creating a
massive pack file locally. Default is 1 MiB, which is
sufficient for most requests.
Note that raising this limit is only effective for disabling
chunked transfer encoding and therefore should be used only
where the remote server or a proxy only supports HTTP/1.0 or
is noncompliant with the HTTP standard. Raising this is not,
in general, an effective solution for most push problems, but
can increase memory consumption significantly since the
entire buffer is allocated even for small pushes.
http.lowSpeedLimit, http.lowSpeedTime
If the HTTP transfer speed is less than http.lowSpeedLimit
for longer than http.lowSpeedTime seconds, the transfer is
aborted. Can be overridden by the GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT
and GIT_HTTP_LOW_SPEED_TIME environment variables.
http.noEPSV
A boolean which disables using of EPSV ftp command by curl.
This can helpful with some "poor" ftp servers which don't
support EPSV mode. Can be overridden by the
GIT_CURL_FTP_NO_EPSV environment variable. Default is false
(curl will use EPSV).
http.userAgent
The HTTP USER_AGENT string presented to an HTTP server. The
default value represents the version of the client Git such
as git/1.7.1. This option allows you to override this value
to a more common value such as Mozilla/4.0. This may be
necessary, for instance, if connecting through a firewall
that restricts HTTP connections to a set of common USER_AGENT
strings (but not including those like git/1.7.1). Can be
overridden by the GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT environment variable.
http.followRedirects
Whether git should follow HTTP redirects. If set to true, git
will transparently follow any redirect issued by a server it
encounters. If set to false, git will treat all redirects as
errors. If set to initial, git will follow redirects only for
the initial request to a remote, but not for subsequent
follow-up HTTP requests. Since git uses the redirected URL as
the base for the follow-up requests, this is generally
sufficient. The default is initial.
http.<url>.*
Any of the http.* options above can be applied selectively to
some URLs. For a config key to match a URL, each element of
the config key is compared to that of the URL, in the
following order:
1. Scheme (e.g., https in https://example.com/ ). This field
must match exactly between the config key and the URL.
2. Host/domain name (e.g., example.com in
https://example.com/ ). This field must match between the
config key and the URL. It is possible to specify a * as
part of the host name to match all subdomains at this
level. https://*.example.com/ for example would match
https://foo.example.com/ , but not
https://foo.bar.example.com/ .
3. Port number (e.g., 8080 in http://example.com:8080/ ).
This field must match exactly between the config key and
the URL. Omitted port numbers are automatically converted
to the correct default for the scheme before matching.
4. Path (e.g., repo.git in https://example.com/repo.git ).
The path field of the config key must match the path
field of the URL either exactly or as a prefix of
slash-delimited path elements. This means a config key
with path foo/ matches URL path foo/bar. A prefix can
only match on a slash (/) boundary. Longer matches take
precedence (so a config key with path foo/bar is a better
match to URL path foo/bar than a config key with just
path foo/).
5. User name (e.g., user in
https://user@example.com/repo.git). If the config key has
a user name it must match the user name in the URL
exactly. If the config key does not have a user name,
that config key will match a URL with any user name
(including none), but at a lower precedence than a config
key with a user name.
The list above is ordered by decreasing precedence; a URL
that matches a config key's path is preferred to one that
matches its user name. For example, if the URL is
https://user@example.com/foo/bar a config key match of
https://example.com/foo will be preferred over a config key
match of https://user@example.com.
All URLs are normalized before attempting any matching (the
password part, if embedded in the URL, is always ignored for
matching purposes) so that equivalent URLs that are simply
spelled differently will match properly. Environment variable
settings always override any matches. The URLs that are
matched against are those given directly to Git commands.
This means any URLs visited as a result of a redirection do
not participate in matching.
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.folder
The folder to drop the mails into, which is typically the
Drafts folder. For example: "INBOX.Drafts", "INBOX/Drafts" or
"[Gmail]/Drafts". Required.
imap.tunnel
Command used to setup a tunnel to the IMAP server through
which commands will be piped instead of using a direct
network connection to the server. Required when imap.host is
not set.
imap.host
A URL identifying the server. Use an imap:// prefix for
non-secure connections and an imaps:// prefix for secure
connections. Ignored when imap.tunnel is set, but required
otherwise.
imap.user
The username to use when logging in to the server.
imap.pass
The password to use when logging in to the server.
imap.port
An integer port number to connect to on the server. Defaults
to 143 for imap:// hosts and 993 for imaps:// hosts. Ignored
when imap.tunnel is set.
imap.sslverify
A boolean to enable/disable verification of the server
certificate used by the SSL/TLS connection. Default is true.
Ignored when imap.tunnel is set.
imap.preformattedHTML
A boolean to enable/disable the use of html encoding when
sending a patch. An html encoded patch will be bracketed with
<pre> and have a content type of text/html. Ironically,
enabling this option causes Thunderbird to send the patch as
a plain/text, format=fixed email. Default is false.
imap.authMethod
Specify authenticate method for authentication with IMAP
server. If Git was built with the NO_CURL option, or if your
curl version is older than 7.34.0, or if you're running
git-imap-send with the --no-curl option, the only supported
method is CRAM-MD5. If this is not set then git imap-send
uses the basic IMAP plaintext LOGIN command.
index.recordEndOfIndexEntries
Specifies whether the index file should include an "End Of
Index Entry" section. This reduces index load time on
multiprocessor machines but produces a message "ignoring EOIE
extension" when reading the index using Git versions before
2.20. Defaults to true if index.threads has been explicitly
enabled, false otherwise.
index.recordOffsetTable
Specifies whether the index file should include an "Index
Entry Offset Table" section. This reduces index load time on
multiprocessor machines but produces a message "ignoring IEOT
extension" when reading the index using Git versions before
2.20. Defaults to true if index.threads has been explicitly
enabled, false otherwise.
index.sparse
When enabled, write the index using sparse-directory entries.
This has no effect unless core.sparseCheckout and
core.sparseCheckoutCone are both enabled. Defaults to false.
index.threads
Specifies the number of threads to spawn when loading the
index. This is meant to reduce index load time on
multiprocessor machines. Specifying 0 or true will cause Git
to auto-detect the number of CPU's and set the number of
threads accordingly. Specifying 1 or false will disable
multithreading. Defaults to true.
index.version
Specify the version with which new index files should be
initialized. This does not affect existing repositories. If
feature.manyFiles is enabled, then the default is 4.
init.templateDir
Specify the directory from which templates will be copied.
(See the "TEMPLATE DIRECTORY" section of git-init(1).)
init.defaultBranch
Allows overriding the default branch name e.g. when
initializing a new repository.
instaweb.browser
Specify the program that will be used to browse your working
repository in gitweb. See git-instaweb(1).
instaweb.httpd
The HTTP daemon command-line to start gitweb on your working
repository. See git-instaweb(1).
instaweb.local
If true the web server started by git-instaweb(1) will be
bound to the local IP (127.0.0.1).
instaweb.modulePath
The default module path for git-instaweb(1) to use instead of
/usr/lib/apache2/modules. Only used if httpd is Apache.
instaweb.port
The port number to bind the gitweb httpd to. See
git-instaweb(1).
interactive.singleKey
In interactive commands, allow the user to provide one-letter
input with a single key (i.e., without hitting enter).
Currently this is used by the --patch mode of git-add(1),
git-checkout(1), git-restore(1), git-commit(1), git-reset(1),
and git-stash(1). Note that this setting is silently ignored
if portable keystroke input is not available; requires the
Perl module Term::ReadKey.
interactive.diffFilter
When an interactive command (such as git add --patch) shows a
colorized diff, git will pipe the diff through the shell
command defined by this configuration variable. The command
may mark up the diff further for human consumption, provided
that it retains a one-to-one correspondence with the lines in
the original diff. Defaults to disabled (no filtering).
log.abbrevCommit
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and
git-whatchanged(1) assume --abbrev-commit. You may override
this option with --no-abbrev-commit.
log.date
Set the default date-time mode for the log command. Setting a
value for log.date is similar to using git log's --date
option. See git-log(1) for details.
log.decorate
Print out the ref names of any commits that are shown by the
log command. If short is specified, the ref name prefixes
refs/heads/, refs/tags/ and refs/remotes/ will not be
printed. If full is specified, the full ref name (including
prefix) will be printed. If auto is specified, then if the
output is going to a terminal, the ref names are shown as if
short were given, otherwise no ref names are shown. This is
the same as the --decorate option of the git log.
log.excludeDecoration
Exclude the specified patterns from the log decorations. This
is similar to the --decorate-refs-exclude command-line
option, but the config option can be overridden by the
--decorate-refs option.
log.diffMerges
Set default diff format to be used for merge commits. See
--diff-merges in git-log(1) for details. Defaults to
separate.
log.follow
If true, git log will act as if the --follow option was used
when a single <path> is given. This has the same limitations
as --follow, i.e. it cannot be used to follow multiple files
and does not work well on non-linear history.
log.graphColors
A list of colors, separated by commas, that can be used to
draw history lines in git log --graph.
log.showRoot
If true, the initial commit will be shown as a big creation
event. This is equivalent to a diff against an empty tree.
Tools like git-log(1) or git-whatchanged(1), which normally
hide the root commit will now show it. True by default.
log.showSignature
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and
git-whatchanged(1) assume --show-signature.
log.mailmap
If true, makes git-log(1), git-show(1), and
git-whatchanged(1) assume --use-mailmap, otherwise assume
--no-use-mailmap. True by default.
lsrefs.unborn
May be "advertise" (the default), "allow", or "ignore". If
"advertise", the server will respond to the client sending
"unborn" (as described in protocol-v2.txt) and will advertise
support for this feature during the protocol v2 capability
advertisement. "allow" is the same as "advertise" except that
the server will not advertise support for this feature; this
is useful for load-balanced servers that cannot be updated
atomically (for example), since the administrator could
configure "allow", then after a delay, configure "advertise".
mailinfo.scissors
If true, makes git-mailinfo(1) (and therefore git-am(1)) act
by default as if the --scissors option was provided on the
command-line. When active, this features removes everything
from the message body before a scissors line (i.e. consisting
mainly of ">8", "8<" and "-").
mailmap.file
The location of an augmenting mailmap file. The default
mailmap, located in the root of the repository, is loaded
first, then the mailmap file pointed to by this variable. The
location of the mailmap file may be in a repository
subdirectory, or somewhere outside of the repository itself.
See git-shortlog(1) and git-blame(1).
mailmap.blob
Like mailmap.file, but consider the value as a reference to a
blob in the repository. If both mailmap.file and mailmap.blob
are given, both are parsed, with entries from mailmap.file
taking precedence. In a bare repository, this defaults to
HEAD:.mailmap. In a non-bare repository, it defaults to
empty.
maintenance.auto
This boolean config option controls whether some commands run
git maintenance run --auto after doing their normal work.
Defaults to true.
maintenance.strategy
This string config option provides a way to specify one of a
few recommended schedules for background maintenance. This
only affects which tasks are run during git maintenance run
--schedule=X commands, provided no --task=<task> arguments
are provided. Further, if a maintenance.<task>.schedule
config value is set, then that value is used instead of the
one provided by maintenance.strategy. The possible strategy
strings are:
• none: This default setting implies no task are run at any
schedule.
• incremental: This setting optimizes for performing small
maintenance activities that do not delete any data. This
does not schedule the gc task, but runs the prefetch and
commit-graph tasks hourly, the loose-objects and
incremental-repack tasks daily, and the pack-refs task
weekly.
maintenance.<task>.enabled
This boolean config option controls whether the maintenance
task with name <task> is run when no --task option is
specified to git maintenance run. These config values are
ignored if a --task option exists. By default, only
maintenance.gc.enabled is true.
maintenance.<task>.schedule
This config option controls whether or not the given <task>
runs during a git maintenance run --schedule=<frequency>
command. The value must be one of "hourly", "daily", or
"weekly".
maintenance.commit-graph.auto
This integer config option controls how often the
commit-graph task should be run as part of git maintenance
run --auto. If zero, then the commit-graph task will not run
with the --auto option. A negative value will force the task
to run every time. Otherwise, a positive value implies the
command should run when the number of reachable commits that
are not in the commit-graph file is at least the value of
maintenance.commit-graph.auto. The default value is 100.
maintenance.loose-objects.auto
This integer config option controls how often the
loose-objects task should be run as part of git maintenance
run --auto. If zero, then the loose-objects task will not run
with the --auto option. A negative value will force the task
to run every time. Otherwise, a positive value implies the
command should run when the number of loose objects is at
least the value of maintenance.loose-objects.auto. The
default value is 100.
maintenance.incremental-repack.auto
This integer config option controls how often the
incremental-repack task should be run as part of git
maintenance run --auto. If zero, then the incremental-repack
task will not run with the --auto option. A negative value
will force the task to run every time. Otherwise, a positive
value implies the command should run when the number of
pack-files not in the multi-pack-index is at least the value
of maintenance.incremental-repack.auto. The default value is
10.
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.
Defaults to true.
merge.ff
By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when
merging a commit that is a descendant of the current commit.
Instead, the tip of the current branch is fast-forwarded.
When set to false, this variable tells Git to create an extra
merge commit in such a case (equivalent to giving the --no-ff
option from the command line). When set to only, only such
fast-forward merges are allowed (equivalent to giving the
--ff-only option from the command line).
merge.verifySignatures
If true, this is equivalent to the --verify-signatures
command line option. See git-merge(1) for details.
merge.branchdesc
In addition to branch names, populate the log message with
the branch description text associated with them. Defaults to
false.
merge.log
In addition to branch names, populate the log message with at
most the specified number of one-line descriptions from the
actual commits that are being merged. Defaults to false, and
true is a synonym for 20.
merge.suppressDest
By adding a glob that matches the names of integration
branches to this multi-valued configuration variable, the
default merge message computed for merges into these
integration branches will omit "into <branch name>" from its
title.
An element with an empty value can be used to clear the list
of globs accumulated from previous configuration entries.
When there is no merge.suppressDest variable defined, the
default value of master is used for backward compatibility.
merge.renameLimit
The number of files to consider in the exhaustive portion of
rename detection during a merge. If not specified, defaults
to the value of diff.renameLimit. If neither
merge.renameLimit nor diff.renameLimit are specified,
currently defaults to 7000. This setting has no effect if
rename detection is turned off.
merge.renames
Whether Git detects renames. If set to "false", rename
detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename
detection is enabled. Defaults to the value of diff.renames.
merge.directoryRenames
Whether Git detects directory renames, affecting what happens
at merge time to new files added to a directory on one side
of history when that directory was renamed on the other side
of history. If merge.directoryRenames is set to "false",
directory rename detection is disabled, meaning that such new
files will be left behind in the old directory. If set to
"true", directory rename detection is enabled, meaning that
such new files will be moved into the new directory. If set
to "conflict", a conflict will be reported for such paths. If
merge.renames is false, merge.directoryRenames is ignored and
treated as false. Defaults to "conflict".
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.autoStash
When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash
entry before the operation begins, and apply it after the
operation ends. This means that you can run merge on a dirty
worktree. However, use with care: the final stash application
after a successful merge might result in non-trivial
conflicts. This option can be overridden by the
--no-autostash and --autostash options of git-merge(1).
Defaults to false.
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.
merge.guitool
Controls which merge tool is used by git-mergetool(1) when
the -g/--gui flag is specified. 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.<guitool>.cmd variable is defined.
• araxis
• bc
• bc3
• bc4
• codecompare
• deltawalker
• diffmerge
• diffuse
• ecmerge
• emerge
• examdiff
• guiffy
• gvimdiff
• gvimdiff1
• gvimdiff2
• gvimdiff3
• kdiff3
• meld
• nvimdiff
• nvimdiff1
• nvimdiff2
• nvimdiff3
• opendiff
• p4merge
• smerge
• tkdiff
• tortoisemerge
• vimdiff
• vimdiff1
• vimdiff2
• vimdiff3
• winmerge
• xxdiff
merge.verbosity
Controls the amount of output shown by the recursive merge
strategy. Level 0 outputs nothing except a final error
message if conflicts were detected. Level 1 outputs only
conflicts, 2 outputs conflicts and file changes. Level 5 and
above outputs debugging information. The default is level 2.
Can be overridden by the GIT_MERGE_VERBOSITY environment
variable.
merge.<driver>.name
Defines a human-readable name for a custom low-level merge
driver. See gitattributes(5) for details.
merge.<driver>.driver
Defines the command that implements a custom low-level merge
driver. See gitattributes(5) for details.
merge.<driver>.recursive
Names a low-level merge driver to be used when performing an
internal merge between common ancestors. See gitattributes(5)
for details.
mergetool.<tool>.path
Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
your tool is not in the PATH.
mergetool.<tool>.cmd
Specify the command to invoke the specified merge tool. The
specified command is evaluated in shell with the following
variables available: BASE is the name of a temporary file
containing the common base of the files to be merged, if
available; LOCAL is the name of a temporary file containing
the contents of the file on the current branch; REMOTE is the
name of a temporary file containing the contents of the file
from the branch being merged; MERGED contains the name of the
file to which the merge tool should write the results of a
successful merge.
mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved
Allows the user to override the global mergetool.hideResolved
value for a specific tool. See mergetool.hideResolved for the
full description.
mergetool.<tool>.trustExitCode
For a custom merge command, specify whether the exit code of
the merge command can be used to determine whether the merge
was successful. If this is not set to true then the merge
target file timestamp is checked and the merge assumed to
have been successful if the file has been updated, otherwise
the user is prompted to indicate the success of the merge.
mergetool.meld.hasOutput
Older versions of meld do not support the --output option.
Git will attempt to detect whether meld supports --output by
inspecting the output of meld --help. Configuring
mergetool.meld.hasOutput will make Git skip these checks and
use the configured value instead. Setting
mergetool.meld.hasOutput to true tells Git to unconditionally
use the --output option, and false avoids using --output.
mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge
When the --auto-merge is given, meld will merge all
non-conflicting parts automatically, highlight the
conflicting parts and wait for user decision. Setting
mergetool.meld.useAutoMerge to true tells Git to
unconditionally use the --auto-merge option with meld.
Setting this value to auto makes git detect whether
--auto-merge is supported and will only use --auto-merge when
available. A value of false avoids using --auto-merge
altogether, and is the default value.
mergetool.hideResolved
During a merge Git will automatically resolve as many
conflicts as possible and write the MERGED file containing
conflict markers around any conflicts that it cannot resolve;
LOCAL and REMOTE normally represent the versions of the file
from before Git's conflict resolution. This flag causes LOCAL
and REMOTE to be overwriten so that only the unresolved
conflicts are presented to the merge tool. Can be configured
per-tool via the mergetool.<tool>.hideResolved configuration
variable. Defaults to false.
mergetool.keepBackup
After performing a merge, the original file with conflict
markers can be saved as a file with a .orig extension. If
this variable is set to false then this file is not
preserved. Defaults to true (i.e. keep the backup files).
mergetool.keepTemporaries
When invoking a custom merge tool, Git uses a set of
temporary files to pass to the tool. If the tool returns an
error and this variable is set to true, then these temporary
files will be preserved, otherwise they will be removed after
the tool has exited. Defaults to false.
mergetool.writeToTemp
Git writes temporary BASE, LOCAL, and REMOTE versions of
conflicting files in the worktree by default. Git will
attempt to use a temporary directory for these files when set
true. Defaults to false.
mergetool.prompt
Prompt before each invocation of the merge resolution
program.
notes.mergeStrategy
Which merge strategy to choose by default when resolving
notes conflicts. Must be one of manual, ours, theirs, union,
or cat_sort_uniq. Defaults to manual. See "NOTES MERGE
STRATEGIES" section of git-notes(1) for more information on
each strategy.
notes.<name>.mergeStrategy
Which merge strategy to choose when doing a notes merge into
refs/notes/<name>. This overrides the more general
"notes.mergeStrategy". See the "NOTES MERGE STRATEGIES"
section in git-notes(1) for more information on the available
strategies.
notes.displayRef
The (fully qualified) refname from which to show notes when
showing commit messages. The value of this variable can be
set to a glob, in which case notes from all matching refs
will be shown. You may also specify this configuration
variable several times. A warning will be issued for refs
that do not exist, but a glob that does not match any refs is
silently ignored.
This setting can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF
environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of
refs or globs.
The effective value of "core.notesRef" (possibly overridden
by GIT_NOTES_REF) is also implicitly added to the list of
refs to be displayed.
notes.rewrite.<command>
When rewriting commits with <command> (currently amend or
rebase) and this variable is set to true, Git automatically
copies your notes from the original to the rewritten commit.
Defaults to true, but see "notes.rewriteRef" below.
notes.rewriteMode
When copying notes during a rewrite (see the
"notes.rewrite.<command>" option), determines what to do if
the target commit already has a note. Must be one of
overwrite, concatenate, cat_sort_uniq, or ignore. Defaults to
concatenate.
This setting can be overridden with the
GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_MODE environment variable.
notes.rewriteRef
When copying notes during a rewrite, specifies the (fully
qualified) ref whose notes should be copied. The ref may be a
glob, in which case notes in all matching refs will be
copied. You may also specify this configuration several
times.
Does not have a default value; you must configure this
variable to enable note rewriting. Set it to
refs/notes/commits to enable rewriting for the default commit
notes.
This setting can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF
environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of
refs or globs.
pack.window
The size of the window used by git-pack-objects(1) when no
window size is given on the command line. Defaults to 10.
pack.depth
The maximum delta depth used by git-pack-objects(1) when no
maximum depth is given on the command line. Defaults to 50.
Maximum value is 4095.
pack.windowMemory
The maximum size of memory that is consumed by each thread in
git-pack-objects(1) for pack window memory when no limit is
given on the command line. The value can be suffixed with
"k", "m", or "g". When left unconfigured (or set explicitly
to 0), there will be no limit.
pack.compression
An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for
objects in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no
compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9
being slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If
that is not set, defaults to -1, the zlib default, which is
"a default compromise between speed and compression
(currently equivalent to level 6)."
Note that changing the compression level will not
automatically recompress all existing objects. You can force
recompression by passing the -F option to git-repack(1).
pack.allowPackReuse
When true, and when reachability bitmaps are enabled,
pack-objects will try to send parts of the bitmapped packfile
verbatim. This can reduce memory and CPU usage to serve
fetches, but might result in sending a slightly larger pack.
Defaults to true.
pack.island
An extended regular expression configuring a set of delta
islands. See "DELTA ISLANDS" in git-pack-objects(1) for
details.
pack.islandCore
Specify an island name which gets to have its objects be
packed first. This creates a kind of pseudo-pack at the front
of one pack, so that the objects from the specified island
are hopefully faster to copy into any pack that should be
served to a user requesting these objects. In practice this
means that the island specified should likely correspond to
what is the most commonly cloned in the repo. See also "DELTA
ISLANDS" in git-pack-objects(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. Maximum value is 65535.
pack.threads
Specifies the number of threads to spawn when searching for
best delta matches. This requires that git-pack-objects(1) be
compiled with pthreads otherwise this option is ignored with
a warning. This is meant to reduce packing time on
multiprocessor machines. The required amount of memory for
the delta search window is however multiplied by the number
of threads. Specifying 0 will cause Git to auto-detect the
number of CPU's and set the number of threads accordingly.
pack.indexVersion
Specify the default pack index version. Valid values are 1
for legacy pack index used by Git versions prior to 1.5.2,
and 2 for the new pack index with capabilities for packs
larger than 4 GB as well as proper protection against the
repacking of corrupted packs. Version 2 is the default. Note
that version 2 is enforced and this config option ignored
whenever the corresponding pack is larger than 2 GB.
If you have an old Git that does not understand the version 2
*.idx file, cloning or fetching over a non native protocol
(e.g. "http") that will copy both *.pack file and
corresponding *.idx file from the other side may give you a
repository that cannot be accessed with your older version of
Git. If the *.pack file is smaller than 2 GB, however, you
can use git-index-pack(1) on the *.pack file to regenerate
the *.idx file.
pack.packSizeLimit
The maximum size of a pack. This setting only affects packing
to a file when repacking, i.e. the git:// protocol is
unaffected. It can be overridden by the --max-pack-size
option of git-repack(1). Reaching this limit results in the
creation of multiple packfiles.
Note that this option is rarely useful, and may result in a
larger total on-disk size (because Git will not store deltas
between packs), as well as worse runtime performance (object
lookup within multiple packs is slower than a single pack,
and optimizations like reachability bitmaps cannot cope with
multiple packs).
If you need to actively run Git using smaller packfiles
(e.g., because your filesystem does not support large files),
this option may help. But if your goal is to transmit a
packfile over a medium that supports limited sizes (e.g.,
removable media that cannot store the whole repository), you
are likely better off creating a single large packfile and
splitting it using a generic multi-volume archive tool (e.g.,
Unix split).
The minimum size allowed is limited to 1 MiB. The default is
unlimited. Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.
pack.useBitmaps
When true, git will use pack bitmaps (if available) when
packing to stdout (e.g., during the server side of a fetch).
Defaults to true. You should not generally need to turn this
off unless you are debugging pack bitmaps.
pack.useSparse
When true, git will default to using the --sparse option in
git pack-objects when the --revs option is present. This
algorithm only walks trees that appear in paths that
introduce new objects. This can have significant performance
benefits when computing a pack to send a small change.
However, it is possible that extra objects are added to the
pack-file if the included commits contain certain types of
direct renames. Default is true.
pack.preferBitmapTips
When selecting which commits will receive bitmaps, prefer a
commit at the tip of any reference that is a suffix of any
value of this configuration over any other commits in the
"selection window".
Note that setting this configuration to refs/foo does not
mean that the commits at the tips of refs/foo/bar and
refs/foo/baz will necessarily be selected. This is because
commits are selected for bitmaps from within a series of
windows of variable length.
If a commit at the tip of any reference which is a suffix of
any value of this configuration is seen in a window, it is
immediately given preference over any other commit in that
window.
pack.writeBitmaps (deprecated)
This is a deprecated synonym for repack.writeBitmaps.
pack.writeBitmapHashCache
When true, git will include a "hash cache" section in the
bitmap index (if one is written). This cache can be used to
feed git's delta heuristics, potentially leading to better
deltas between bitmapped and non-bitmapped objects (e.g.,
when serving a fetch between an older, bitmapped pack and
objects that have been pushed since the last gc). The
downside is that it consumes 4 bytes per object of disk
space. Defaults to true.
pack.writeReverseIndex
When true, git will write a corresponding .rev file (see:
Documentation/technical/pack-format.txt
pager.<cmd>
If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the
output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty.
Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the
pager specified by the value of pager.<cmd>. If --paginate or
--no-pager is specified on the command line, it takes
precedence over this option. To disable pagination for all
commands, set core.pager or GIT_PAGER to cat.
pretty.<name>
Alias for a --pretty= format string, as specified in
git-log(1). Any aliases defined here can be used just as the
built-in pretty formats could. For example, running git
config pretty.changelog "format:* %H %s" would cause the
invocation git log --pretty=changelog to be equivalent to
running git log "--pretty=format:* %H %s". Note that an alias
with the same name as a built-in format will be silently
ignored.
protocol.allow
If set, provide a user defined default policy for all
protocols which don't explicitly have a policy
(protocol.<name>.allow). By default, if unset, known-safe
protocols (http, https, git, ssh, file) have a default policy
of always, known-dangerous protocols (ext) have a default
policy of never, and all other protocols have a default
policy of user. Supported policies:
• 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.
protocol.<name>.allow
Set a policy to be used by protocol <name> with
clone/fetch/push commands. See protocol.allow above for the
available policies.
The protocol names currently used by git are:
• 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)
protocol.version
If set, clients will attempt to communicate with a server
using the specified protocol version. If the server does not
support it, communication falls back to version 0. If unset,
the default is 2. Supported versions:
• 0 - the original wire protocol.
• 1 - the original wire protocol with the addition of a
version string in the initial response from the server.
• 2 - wire protocol version 2
pull.ff
By default, Git does not create an extra merge commit when
merging a commit that is a descendant of the current commit.
Instead, the tip of the current branch is fast-forwarded.
When set to false, this variable tells Git to create an extra
merge commit in such a case (equivalent to giving the --no-ff
option from the command line). When set to only, only such
fast-forward merges are allowed (equivalent to giving the
--ff-only option from the command line). This setting
overrides merge.ff when pulling.
pull.rebase
When true, rebase branches on top of the fetched branch,
instead of merging the default branch from the default remote
when "git pull" is run. See "branch.<name>.rebase" for
setting this on a per-branch basis.
When merges (or just m), pass the --rebase-merges option to
git rebase so that the local merge commits are included in
the rebase (see git-rebase(1) for details).
When preserve (or just p, deprecated in favor of merges),
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 (or just i), the rebase is run
in interactive mode.
NOTE: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do not use it
unless you understand the implications (see git-rebase(1) for
details).
pull.octopus
The default merge strategy to use when pulling multiple
branches at once.
pull.twohead
The default merge strategy to use when pulling a single
branch.
push.default
Defines the action git push should take if no refspec is
given (whether from the command-line, config, or elsewhere).
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 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 - pushes the current branch with the same name on
the remote.
If you are working on a centralized workflow (pushing to
the same repository you pull from, which is typically
origin), then you need to configure an upstream branch
with the same name.
This mode is the default since Git 2.0, and is the safest
option suited for beginners.
• matching - push all branches having the same name on both
ends. This makes the repository you are pushing to
remember the set of branches that will be pushed out
(e.g. if you always push maint and master there and no
other branches, the repository you push to will have
these two branches, and your local maint and master will
be pushed there).
To use this mode effectively, you have to make sure all
the branches you would push out are ready to be pushed
out before running git push, as the whole point of this
mode is to allow you to push all of the branches in one
go. If you usually finish work on only one branch and
push out the result, while other branches are unfinished,
this mode is not for you. Also this mode is not suitable
for pushing into a shared central repository, as other
people may add new branches there, or update the tip of
existing branches outside your control.
This used to be the default, but not since Git 2.0
(simple is the new default).
push.followTags
If set to true enable --follow-tags option by default. You
may override this configuration at time of push by specifying
--no-follow-tags.
push.gpgSign
May be set to a boolean value, or the string if-asked. A true
value causes all pushes to be GPG signed, as if --signed is
passed to git-push(1). The string if-asked causes pushes to
be signed if the server supports it, as if --signed=if-asked
is passed to git push. A false value may override a value
from a lower-priority config file. An explicit command-line
flag always overrides this config option.
push.pushOption
When no --push-option=<option> argument is given from the
command line, git push behaves as if each <value> of this
variable is given as --push-option=<value>.
This is a multi-valued variable, and an empty value can be
used in a higher priority configuration file (e.g.
.git/config in a repository) to clear the values inherited
from a lower priority configuration files (e.g.
$HOME/.gitconfig).
Example:
/etc/gitconfig
push.pushoption = a
push.pushoption = b
~/.gitconfig
push.pushoption = c
repo/.git/config
push.pushoption =
push.pushoption = b
This will result in only b (a and c are cleared).
push.recurseSubmodules
Make sure all submodule commits used by the revisions to be
pushed are available on a remote-tracking branch. If the
value is check then Git will verify that all submodule
commits that changed in the revisions to be pushed are
available on at least one remote of the submodule. If any
commits are missing, the push will be aborted and exit with
non-zero status. If the value is on-demand then all
submodules that changed in the revisions to be pushed will be
pushed. If on-demand was not able to push all necessary
revisions it will also be aborted and exit with non-zero
status. If the value is no then default behavior of ignoring
submodules when pushing is retained. You may override this
configuration at time of push by specifying
--recurse-submodules=check|on-demand|no. If not set, no is
used by default, unless submodule.recurse is set (in which
case a true value means on-demand).
push.useForceIfIncludes
If set to "true", it is equivalent to specifying
--force-if-includes as an option to git-push(1) in the
command line. Adding --no-force-if-includes at the time of
push overrides this configuration setting.
push.negotiate
If set to "true", attempt to reduce the size of the packfile
sent by rounds of negotiation in which the client and the
server attempt to find commits in common. If "false", Git
will rely solely on the server's ref advertisement to find
commits in common.
rebase.backend
Default backend to use for rebasing. Possible choices are
apply or merge. In the future, if the merge backend gains all
remaining capabilities of the apply backend, this setting may
become unused.
rebase.stat
Whether to show a diffstat of what changed upstream since the
last rebase. False by default.
rebase.autoSquash
If set to true enable --autosquash option by default.
rebase.autoStash
When set to true, automatically create a temporary stash
entry before the operation begins, and apply it after the
operation ends. This means that you can run rebase on a dirty
worktree. However, use with care: the final stash application
after a successful rebase might result in non-trivial
conflicts. This option can be overridden by the
--no-autostash and --autostash options of git-rebase(1).
Defaults to false.
rebase.missingCommitsCheck
If set to "warn", git rebase -i will print a warning if some
commits are removed (e.g. a line was deleted), however the
rebase will still proceed. If set to "error", it will print
the previous warning and stop the rebase, git rebase
--edit-todo can then be used to correct the error. If set to
"ignore", no checking is done. To drop a commit without
warning or error, use the drop command in the todo list.
Defaults to "ignore".
rebase.instructionFormat
A format string, as specified in git-log(1), to be used for
the todo list during an interactive rebase. The format will
automatically have the long commit hash prepended to the
format.
rebase.abbreviateCommands
If set to true, git rebase will use abbreviated command names
in the todo list resulting in something like this:
p deadbee The oneline of the commit
p fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
...
instead of:
pick deadbee The oneline of the commit
pick fa1afe1 The oneline of the next commit
...
Defaults to false.
rebase.rescheduleFailedExec
Automatically reschedule exec commands that failed. This only
makes sense in interactive mode (or when an --exec option was
provided). This is the same as specifying the
--reschedule-failed-exec option.
rebase.forkPoint
If set to false set --no-fork-point option by default.
receive.advertiseAtomic
By default, git-receive-pack will advertise the atomic push
capability to its clients. If you don't want to advertise
this capability, set this variable to false.
receive.advertisePushOptions
When set to true, git-receive-pack will advertise the push
options capability to its clients. False by default.
receive.autogc
By default, git-receive-pack will run "git-gc --auto" after
receiving data from git-push and updating refs. You can stop
it by setting this variable to false.
receive.certNonceSeed
By setting this variable to a string, git receive-pack will
accept a git push --signed and verifies it by using a "nonce"
protected by HMAC using this string as a secret key.
receive.certNonceSlop
When a git push --signed sent a push certificate with a
"nonce" that was issued by a receive-pack serving the same
repository within this many seconds, export the "nonce" found
in the certificate to GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE to the hooks
(instead of what the receive-pack asked the sending side to
include). This may allow writing checks in pre-receive and
post-receive a bit easier. Instead of checking
GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_SLOP environment variable that records by
how many seconds the nonce is stale to decide if they want to
accept the certificate, they only can check
GIT_PUSH_CERT_NONCE_STATUS is OK.
receive.fsckObjects
If it is set to true, git-receive-pack will check all
received objects. See transfer.fsckObjects for what's
checked. Defaults to false. If not set, the value of
transfer.fsckObjects is used instead.
receive.fsck.<msg-id>
Acts like fsck.<msg-id>, but is used by git-receive-pack(1)
instead of git-fsck(1). See the fsck.<msg-id> documentation
for details.
receive.fsck.skipList
Acts like fsck.skipList, but is used by git-receive-pack(1)
instead of git-fsck(1). See the fsck.skipList documentation
for details.
receive.keepAlive
After receiving the pack from the client, receive-pack may
produce no output (if --quiet was specified) while processing
the pack, causing some networks to drop the TCP connection.
With this option set, if receive-pack does not transmit any
data in this phase for receive.keepAlive seconds, it will
send a short keepalive packet. The default is 5 seconds; set
to 0 to disable keepalives entirely.
receive.unpackLimit
If the number of objects received in a push is below this
limit then the objects will be unpacked into loose object
files. However if the number of received objects equals or
exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as a
pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the pack
from a push can make the push operation complete faster,
especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of
transfer.unpackLimit is used instead.
receive.maxInputSize
If the size of the incoming pack stream is larger than this
limit, then git-receive-pack will error out, instead of
accepting the pack file. If not set or set to 0, then the
size is unlimited.
receive.denyDeletes
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that
deletes the ref. Use this to prevent such a ref deletion via
a push.
receive.denyDeleteCurrent
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update that
deletes the currently checked out branch of a non-bare
repository.
receive.denyCurrentBranch
If set to true or "refuse", git-receive-pack will deny a ref
update to the currently checked out branch of a non-bare
repository. Such a push is potentially dangerous because it
brings the HEAD out of sync with the index and working tree.
If set to "warn", print a warning of such a push to stderr,
but allow the push to proceed. If set to false or "ignore",
allow such pushes with no message. Defaults to "refuse".
Another option is "updateInstead" which will update the
working tree if pushing into the current branch. This option
is intended for synchronizing working directories when one
side is not easily accessible via interactive ssh (e.g. a
live web site, hence the requirement that the working
directory be clean). This mode also comes in handy when
developing inside a VM to test and fix code on different
Operating Systems.
By default, "updateInstead" will refuse the push if the
working tree or the index have any difference from the HEAD,
but the push-to-checkout hook can be used to customize this.
See githooks(5).
receive.denyNonFastForwards
If set to true, git-receive-pack will deny a ref update which
is not a fast-forward. Use this to prevent such an update via
a push, even if that push is forced. This configuration
variable is set when initializing a shared repository.
receive.hideRefs
This variable is the same as transfer.hideRefs, but applies
only to receive-pack (and so affects pushes, but not
fetches). An attempt to update or delete a hidden ref by git
push is rejected.
receive.procReceiveRefs
This is a multi-valued variable that defines reference
prefixes to match the commands in receive-pack. Commands
matching the prefixes will be executed by an external hook
"proc-receive", instead of the internal execute_commands
function. If this variable is not defined, the "proc-receive"
hook will never be used, and all commands will be executed by
the internal execute_commands function.
For example, if this variable is set to "refs/for", pushing
to reference such as "refs/for/master" will not create or
update a reference named "refs/for/master", but may create or
update a pull request directly by running the hook
"proc-receive".
Optional modifiers can be provided in the beginning of the
value to filter commands for specific actions: create (a),
modify (m), delete (d). A ! can be included in the modifiers
to negate the reference prefix entry. E.g.:
git config --system --add receive.procReceiveRefs ad:refs/heads
git config --system --add receive.procReceiveRefs !:refs/heads
receive.updateServerInfo
If set to true, git-receive-pack will run
git-update-server-info after receiving data from git-push and
updating refs.
receive.shallowUpdate
If set to true, .git/shallow can be updated when new refs
require new shallow roots. Otherwise those refs are rejected.
remote.pushDefault
The remote to push to by default. Overrides
branch.<name>.remote for all branches, and is overridden by
branch.<name>.pushRemote for specific branches.
remote.<name>.url
The URL of a remote repository. See git-fetch(1) or
git-push(1).
remote.<name>.pushurl
The push URL of a remote repository. See git-push(1).
remote.<name>.proxy
For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the URL
to the proxy to use for that remote. Set to the empty string
to disable proxying for that remote.
remote.<name>.proxyAuthMethod
For remotes that require curl (http, https and ftp), the
method to use for authenticating against the proxy in use
(probably set in remote.<name>.proxy). See
http.proxyAuthMethod.
remote.<name>.fetch
The default set of "refspec" for git-fetch(1). See
git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.push
The default set of "refspec" for git-push(1). See
git-push(1).
remote.<name>.mirror
If true, pushing to this remote will automatically behave as
if the --mirror option was given on the command line.
remote.<name>.skipDefaultUpdate
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
using git-fetch(1) or the update subcommand of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.skipFetchAll
If true, this remote will be skipped by default when updating
using git-fetch(1) or the update subcommand of git-remote(1).
remote.<name>.receivepack
The default program to execute on the remote side when
pushing. See option --receive-pack of git-push(1).
remote.<name>.uploadpack
The default program to execute on the remote side when
fetching. See option --upload-pack of git-fetch-pack(1).
remote.<name>.tagOpt
Setting this value to --no-tags disables automatic tag
following when fetching from remote <name>. Setting it to
--tags will fetch every tag from remote <name>, even if they
are not reachable from remote branch heads. Passing these
flags directly to git-fetch(1) can override this setting. See
options --tags and --no-tags of git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.vcs
Setting this to a value <vcs> will cause Git to interact with
the remote with the git-remote-<vcs> helper.
remote.<name>.prune
When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will
also remove any remote-tracking references that no longer
exist on the remote (as if the --prune option was given on
the command line). Overrides fetch.prune settings, if any.
remote.<name>.pruneTags
When set to true, fetching from this remote by default will
also remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote
if pruning is activated in general via remote.<name>.prune,
fetch.prune or --prune. Overrides fetch.pruneTags settings,
if any.
See also remote.<name>.prune and the PRUNING section of
git-fetch(1).
remote.<name>.promisor
When set to true, this remote will be used to fetch promisor
objects.
remote.<name>.partialclonefilter
The filter that will be applied when fetching from this
promisor remote.
remotes.<group>
The list of remotes which are fetched by "git remote update
<group>". See git-remote(1).
repack.useDeltaBaseOffset
By default, git-repack(1) creates packs that use delta-base
offset. If you need to share your repository with Git older
than version 1.4.4, either directly or via a dumb protocol
such as http, then you need to set this option to "false" and
repack. Access from old Git versions over the native protocol
are unaffected by this option.
repack.packKeptObjects
If set to true, makes git repack act as if
--pack-kept-objects was passed. See git-repack(1) for
details. Defaults to false normally, but true if a bitmap
index is being written (either via --write-bitmap-index or
repack.writeBitmaps).
repack.useDeltaIslands
If set to true, makes git repack act as if --delta-islands
was passed. Defaults to false.
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 true on
bare repos, false otherwise.
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.
reset.quiet
When set to true, git reset will default to the --quiet
option.
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.smtpsslcertpath
Path to ca-certificates (either a directory or a single
file). Set it to an empty string to disable certificate
verification.
sendemail.<identity>.*
Identity-specific versions of the sendemail.* parameters
found below, taking precedence over those when this identity
is selected, through either the command-line or
sendemail.identity.
sendemail.aliasesFile, sendemail.aliasFileType,
sendemail.annotate, sendemail.bcc, sendemail.cc, sendemail.ccCmd,
sendemail.chainReplyTo, sendemail.confirm,
sendemail.envelopeSender, sendemail.from, sendemail.multiEdit,
sendemail.signedoffbycc, sendemail.smtpPass,
sendemail.suppresscc, sendemail.suppressFrom, sendemail.to,
sendemail.tocmd, sendemail.smtpDomain, sendemail.smtpServer,
sendemail.smtpServerPort, sendemail.smtpServerOption,
sendemail.smtpUser, sendemail.thread, sendemail.transferEncoding,
sendemail.validate, sendemail.xmailer
See git-send-email(1) for description.
sendemail.signedoffcc (deprecated)
Deprecated alias for sendemail.signedoffbycc.
sendemail.smtpBatchSize
Number of messages to be sent per connection, after that a
relogin will happen. If the value is 0 or undefined, send all
messages in one connection. See also the --batch-size option
of git-send-email(1).
sendemail.smtpReloginDelay
Seconds wait before reconnecting to smtp server. See also the
--relogin-delay option of git-send-email(1).
sendemail.forbidSendmailVariables
To avoid common misconfiguration mistakes, git-send-email(1)
will abort with a warning if any configuration options for
"sendmail" exist. Set this variable to bypass the check.
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.
showBranch.default
The default set of branches for git-show-branch(1). See
git-show-branch(1).
splitIndex.maxPercentChange
When the split index feature is used, this specifies the
percent of entries the split index can contain compared to
the total number of entries in both the split index and the
shared index before a new shared index is written. The value
should be between 0 and 100. If the value is 0 then a new
shared index is always written, if it is 100 a new shared
index is never written. By default the value is 20, so a new
shared index is written if the number of entries in the split
index would be greater than 20 percent of the total number of
entries. See git-update-index(1).
splitIndex.sharedIndexExpire
When the split index feature is used, shared index files that
were not modified since the time this variable specifies will
be removed when a new shared index file is created. The value
"now" expires all entries immediately, and "never" suppresses
expiration altogether. The default value is "2.weeks.ago".
Note that a shared index file is considered modified (for the
purpose of expiration) each time a new split-index file is
either created based on it or read from it. See
git-update-index(1).
ssh.variant
By default, Git determines the command line arguments to use
based on the basename of the configured SSH command
(configured using the environment variable GIT_SSH or
GIT_SSH_COMMAND or the config setting core.sshCommand). If
the basename is unrecognized, Git will attempt to detect
support of OpenSSH options by first invoking the configured
SSH command with the -G (print configuration) option and will
subsequently use OpenSSH options (if that is successful) or
no options besides the host and remote command (if it fails).
The config variable ssh.variant can be set to override this
detection. Valid values are ssh (to use OpenSSH options),
plink, putty, tortoiseplink, simple (no options except the
host and remote command). The default auto-detection can be
explicitly requested using the value auto. Any other value is
treated as ssh. This setting can also be overridden via the
environment variable GIT_SSH_VARIANT.
The current command-line parameters used for each variant are
as follows:
• ssh - [-p port] [-4] [-6] [-o option] [username@]host
command
• simple - [username@]host command
• plink or putty - [-P port] [-4] [-6] [username@]host
command
• tortoiseplink - [-P port] [-4] [-6] -batch
[username@]host command
Except for the simple variant, command-line parameters are
likely to change as git gains new features.
status.relativePaths
By default, git-status(1) shows paths relative to the current
directory. Setting this variable to false shows paths
relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git
prior to v1.5.4).
status.short
Set to true to enable --short by default in git-status(1).
The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable.
status.branch
Set to true to enable --branch by default in git-status(1).
The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable.
status.aheadBehind
Set to true to enable --ahead-behind and false to enable
--no-ahead-behind by default in git-status(1) for
non-porcelain status formats. Defaults to true.
status.displayCommentPrefix
If set to true, git-status(1) will insert a comment prefix
before each output line (starting with core.commentChar, i.e.
# by default). This was the behavior of git-status(1) in Git
1.8.4 and previous. Defaults to false.
status.renameLimit
The number of files to consider when performing rename
detection in git-status(1) and git-commit(1). Defaults to the
value of diff.renameLimit.
status.renames
Whether and how Git detects renames in git-status(1) and
git-commit(1) . 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 the value of diff.renames.
status.showStash
If set to true, git-status(1) will display the number of
entries currently stashed away. Defaults to false.
status.showUntrackedFiles
By default, git-status(1) and git-commit(1) show files which
are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which contain
only untracked files, are shown with the directory name only.
Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all
the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on
some systems. So, this variable controls how the commands
displays the untracked files. Possible values are:
• 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)). Please note that the summary output
command will be suppressed for all submodules when
diff.ignoreSubmodules is set to all or only for those
submodules where submodule.<name>.ignore=all. The only
exception to that rule is that status and commit will show
staged submodule changes. To also view the summary for
ignored submodules you can either use the
--ignore-submodules=dirty command-line option or the git
submodule summary command, which shows a similar output but
does not honor these settings.
stash.useBuiltin
Unused configuration variable. Used in Git versions 2.22 to
2.26 as an escape hatch to enable the legacy shellscript
implementation of stash. Now the built-in rewrite of it in C
is always used. Setting this will emit a warning, to alert
any remaining users that setting this now does nothing.
stash.showIncludeUntracked
If this is set to true, the git stash show command will show
the untracked files of a stash entry. Defaults to false. See
description of show command in git-stash(1).
stash.showPatch
If this is set to true, the git stash show command without an
option will show the stash entry in patch form. Defaults to
false. See description of show command in git-stash(1).
stash.showStat
If this is set to true, the git stash show command without an
option will show diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to
true. See description of show command in git-stash(1).
submodule.<name>.url
The URL for a submodule. This variable is copied from the
.gitmodules file to the git config via git submodule init.
The user can change the configured URL before obtaining the
submodule via git submodule update. If neither
submodule.<name>.active or submodule.active are set, the
presence of this variable is used as a fallback to indicate
whether the submodule is of interest to git commands. See
git-submodule(1) and gitmodules(5) for details.
submodule.<name>.update
The method by which a submodule is updated by git submodule
update, which is the only affected command, others such as
git checkout --recurse-submodules are unaffected. It exists
for historical reasons, when git submodule was the only
command to interact with submodules; settings like
submodule.active and pull.rebase are more specific. It is
populated by git submodule init from the gitmodules(5) file.
See description of update command in git-submodule(1).
submodule.<name>.branch
The remote branch name for a submodule, used by git submodule
update --remote. Set this option to override the value found
in the .gitmodules file. See git-submodule(1) and
gitmodules(5) for details.
submodule.<name>.fetchRecurseSubmodules
This option can be used to control recursive fetching of this
submodule. It can be overridden by using the
--[no-]recurse-submodules command-line option to "git fetch"
and "git pull". This setting will override that from in the
gitmodules(5) file.
submodule.<name>.ignore
Defines under what circumstances "git status" and the diff
family show a submodule as modified. When set to "all", it
will never be considered modified (but it will nonetheless
show up in the output of status and commit when it has been
staged), "dirty" will ignore all changes to the submodules
work tree and takes only differences between the HEAD of the
submodule and the commit recorded in the superproject into
account. "untracked" will additionally let submodules with
modified tracked files in their work tree show up. Using
"none" (the default when this option is not set) also shows
submodules that have untracked files in their work tree as
changed. This setting overrides any setting made in
.gitmodules for this submodule, both settings can be
overridden on the command line by using the
"--ignore-submodules" option. The git submodule commands are
not affected by this setting.
submodule.<name>.active
Boolean value indicating if the submodule is of interest to
git commands. This config option takes precedence over the
submodule.active config option. See gitsubmodules(7) for
details.
submodule.active
A repeated field which contains a pathspec used to match
against a submodule's path to determine if the submodule is
of interest to git commands. See gitsubmodules(7) for
details.
submodule.recurse
A boolean indicating if commands should enable the
--recurse-submodules option by default. Applies to all
commands that support this option (checkout, fetch, grep,
pull, push, read-tree, reset, restore and switch) except
clone and ls-files. Defaults to false. When set to true, it
can be deactivated via the --no-recurse-submodules option.
Note that some Git commands lacking this option may call some
of the above commands affected by submodule.recurse; for
instance git remote update will call git fetch but does not
have a --no-recurse-submodules option. For these commands a
workaround is to temporarily change the configuration value
by using git -c submodule.recurse=0.
submodule.fetchJobs
Specifies how many submodules are fetched/cloned at the same
time. A positive integer allows up to that number of
submodules fetched in parallel. A value of 0 will give some
reasonable default. If unset, it defaults to 1.
submodule.alternateLocation
Specifies how the submodules obtain alternates when
submodules are cloned. Possible values are no, superproject.
By default no is assumed, which doesn't add references. When
the value is set to superproject the submodule to be cloned
computes its alternates location relative to the
superprojects alternate.
submodule.alternateErrorStrategy
Specifies how to treat errors with the alternates for a
submodule as computed via submodule.alternateLocation.
Possible values are ignore, info, die. Default is die. Note
that if set to ignore or info, and if there is an error with
the computed alternate, the clone proceeds as if no alternate
was specified.
tag.forceSignAnnotated
A boolean to specify whether annotated tags created should be
GPG signed. If --annotate is specified on the command line,
it takes precedence over this option.
tag.sort
This variable controls the sort ordering of tags when
displayed by git-tag(1). Without the "--sort=<value>" option
provided, the value of this variable will be used as the
default.
tag.gpgSign
A boolean to specify whether all tags should be GPG signed.
Use of this option when running in an automated script can
result in a large number of tags being signed. It is
therefore convenient to use an agent to avoid typing your gpg
passphrase several times. Note that this option doesn't
affect tag signing behavior enabled by "-u <keyid>" or
"--local-user=<keyid>" options.
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).
Trace2 config settings are only read from the system and global
config files; repository local and worktree config files and -c
command line arguments are not respected.
trace2.normalTarget
This variable controls the normal target destination. It may
be overridden by the GIT_TRACE2 environment variable. The
following table shows possible values.
trace2.perfTarget
This variable controls the performance target destination. It
may be overridden by the GIT_TRACE2_PERF environment
variable. The following table shows possible values.
trace2.eventTarget
This variable controls the event target destination. It may
be overridden by the GIT_TRACE2_EVENT environment variable.
The following table shows possible values.
• 0 or false - Disables the target.
• 1 or true - Writes to STDERR.
• [2-9] - Writes to the already opened file descriptor.
• <absolute-pathname> - Writes to the file in append mode.
If the target already exists and is a directory, the
traces will be written to files (one per process)
underneath the given directory.
• af_unix:[<socket_type>:]<absolute-pathname> - Write to a
Unix DomainSocket (on platforms that support them).
Socket type can be either stream or dgram; if omitted Git
will try both.
trace2.normalBrief
Boolean. When true time, filename, and line fields are
omitted from normal output. May be overridden by the
GIT_TRACE2_BRIEF environment variable. Defaults to false.
trace2.perfBrief
Boolean. When true time, filename, and line fields are
omitted from PERF output. May be overridden by the
GIT_TRACE2_PERF_BRIEF environment variable. Defaults to
false.
trace2.eventBrief
Boolean. When true time, filename, and line fields are
omitted from event output. May be overridden by the
GIT_TRACE2_EVENT_BRIEF environment variable. Defaults to
false.
trace2.eventNesting
Integer. Specifies desired depth of nested regions in the
event output. Regions deeper than this value will be omitted.
May be overridden by the GIT_TRACE2_EVENT_NESTING environment
variable. Defaults to 2.
trace2.configParams
A comma-separated list of patterns of "important" config
settings that should be recorded in the trace2 output. For
example, core.*,remote.*.url would cause the trace2 output to
contain events listing each configured remote. May be
overridden by the GIT_TRACE2_CONFIG_PARAMS environment
variable. Unset by default.
trace2.envVars
A comma-separated list of "important" environment variables
that should be recorded in the trace2 output. For example,
GIT_HTTP_USER_AGENT,GIT_CONFIG would cause the trace2 output
to contain events listing the overrides for HTTP user agent
and the location of the Git configuration file (assuming any
are set). May be overridden by the GIT_TRACE2_ENV_VARS
environment variable. Unset by default.
trace2.destinationDebug
Boolean. When true Git will print error messages when a trace
target destination cannot be opened for writing. By default,
these errors are suppressed and tracing is silently disabled.
May be overridden by the GIT_TRACE2_DST_DEBUG environment
variable.
trace2.maxFiles
Integer. When writing trace files to a target directory, do
not write additional traces if we would exceed this many
files. Instead, write a sentinel file that will block further
tracing to this directory. Defaults to 0, which disables this
check.
transfer.fsckObjects
When fetch.fsckObjects or receive.fsckObjects are not set,
the value of this variable is used instead. Defaults to
false.
When set, the fetch or receive will abort in the case of a
malformed object or a link to a nonexistent object. In
addition, various other issues are checked for, including
legacy issues (see fsck.<msg-id>), and potential security
issues like the existence of a .GIT directory or a malicious
.gitmodules file (see the release notes for v2.2.1 and
v2.17.1 for details). Other sanity and security checks may be
added in future releases.
On the receiving side, failing fsckObjects will make those
objects unreachable, see "QUARANTINE ENVIRONMENT" in
git-receive-pack(1). On the fetch side, malformed objects
will instead be left unreferenced in the repository.
Due to the non-quarantine nature of the fetch.fsckObjects
implementation it cannot be relied upon to leave the object
store clean like receive.fsckObjects can.
As objects are unpacked they're written to the object store,
so there can be cases where malicious objects get introduced
even though the "fetch" failed, only to have a subsequent
"fetch" succeed because only new incoming objects are
checked, not those that have already been written to the
object store. That difference in behavior should not be
relied upon. In the future, such objects may be quarantined
for "fetch" as well.
For now, the paranoid need to find some way to emulate the
quarantine environment if they'd like the same protection as
"push". E.g. in the case of an internal mirror do the
mirroring in two steps, one to fetch the untrusted objects,
and then do a second "push" (which will use the quarantine)
to another internal repo, and have internal clients consume
this pushed-to repository, or embargo internal fetches and
only allow them once a full "fsck" has run (and no new
fetches have happened in the meantime).
transfer.hideRefs
String(s) receive-pack and upload-pack use to decide which
refs to omit from their initial advertisements. Use more than
one definition to specify multiple prefix strings. A ref that
is under the hierarchies listed in the value of this variable
is excluded, and is hidden when responding to git push or git
fetch. See receive.hideRefs and uploadpack.hideRefs for
program-specific versions of this config.
You may also include a ! in front of the ref name to negate
the entry, explicitly exposing it, even if an earlier entry
marked it as hidden. If you have multiple hideRefs values,
later entries override earlier ones (and entries in
more-specific config files override less-specific ones).
If a namespace is in use, the namespace prefix is stripped
from each reference before it is matched against
transfer.hiderefs patterns. For example, if refs/heads/master
is specified in transfer.hideRefs and the current namespace
is foo, then refs/namespaces/foo/refs/heads/master is omitted
from the advertisements but refs/heads/master and
refs/namespaces/bar/refs/heads/master are still advertised as
so-called "have" lines. In order to match refs before
stripping, add a ^ in front of the ref name. If you combine !
and ^, ! must be specified first.
Even if you hide refs, a client may still be able to steal
the target objects via the techniques described in the
"SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it's
best to keep private data in a separate repository.
transfer.unpackLimit
When fetch.unpackLimit or receive.unpackLimit are not set,
the value of this variable is used instead. The default value
is 100.
transfer.advertiseSID
Boolean. When true, client and server processes will
advertise their unique session IDs to their remote
counterpart. Defaults to false.
uploadarchive.allowUnreachable
If true, allow clients to use git archive --remote to request
any tree, whether reachable from the ref tips or not. See the
discussion in the "SECURITY" section of git-upload-archive(1)
for more details. Defaults to false.
uploadpack.hideRefs
This variable is the same as transfer.hideRefs, but applies
only to upload-pack (and so affects only fetches, not
pushes). An attempt to fetch a hidden ref by git fetch will
fail. See also uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant.
uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant
When uploadpack.hideRefs is in effect, allow upload-pack to
accept a fetch request that asks for an object at the tip of
a hidden ref (by default, such a request is rejected). See
also uploadpack.hideRefs. Even if this is false, a client may
be able to steal objects via the techniques described in the
"SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it's
best to keep private data in a separate repository.
uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant
Allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request that asks for an
object that is reachable from any ref tip. However, note that
calculating object reachability is computationally expensive.
Defaults to false. Even if this is false, a client may be
able to steal objects via the techniques described in the
"SECURITY" section of the gitnamespaces(7) man page; it's
best to keep private data in a separate repository.
uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant
Allow upload-pack to accept a fetch request that asks for any
object at all. Defaults to false.
uploadpack.keepAlive
When upload-pack has started pack-objects, there may be a
quiet period while pack-objects prepares the pack. Normally
it would output progress information, but if --quiet was used
for the fetch, pack-objects will output nothing at all until
the pack data begins. Some clients and networks may consider
the server to be hung and give up. Setting this option
instructs upload-pack to send an empty keepalive packet every
uploadpack.keepAlive seconds. Setting this option to 0
disables keepalive packets entirely. The default is 5
seconds.
uploadpack.packObjectsHook
If this option is set, when upload-pack would run git
pack-objects to create a packfile for a client, it will run
this shell command instead. The pack-objects command and
arguments it would have run (including the git pack-objects
at the beginning) are appended to the shell command. The
stdin and stdout of the hook are treated as if pack-objects
itself was run. I.e., upload-pack will feed input intended
for pack-objects to the hook, and expects a completed
packfile on stdout.
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).
uploadpack.allowFilter
If this option is set, upload-pack will support partial clone
and partial fetch object filtering.
uploadpackfilter.allow
Provides a default value for unspecified object filters (see:
the below configuration variable). If set to true, this will
also enable all filters which get added in the future.
Defaults to true.
uploadpackfilter.<filter>.allow
Explicitly allow or ban the object filter corresponding to
<filter>, where <filter> may be one of: blob:none,
blob:limit, object:type, tree, sparse:oid, or combine. If
using combined filters, both combine and all of the nested
filter kinds must be allowed. Defaults to
uploadpackfilter.allow.
uploadpackfilter.tree.maxDepth
Only allow --filter=tree:<n> when <n> is no more than the
value of uploadpackfilter.tree.maxDepth. If set, this also
implies uploadpackfilter.tree.allow=true, unless this
configuration variable had already been set. Has no effect if
unset.
uploadpack.allowRefInWant
If this option is set, upload-pack will support the
ref-in-want feature of the protocol version 2 fetch command.
This feature is intended for the benefit of load-balanced
servers which may not have the same view of what OIDs their
refs point to due to replication delay.
url.<base>.insteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will be rewritten to
start, instead, with <base>. In cases where some site serves
a large number of repositories, and serves them with multiple
access methods, and some users need to use different access
methods, this feature allows people to specify any of the
equivalent URLs and have Git automatically rewrite the URL to
the best alternative for the particular user, even for a
never-before-seen repository on the site. When more than one
insteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest match is
used.
Note that any protocol restrictions will be applied to the
rewritten URL. If the rewrite changes the URL to use a custom
protocol or remote helper, you may need to adjust the
protocol.*.allow config to permit the request. In particular,
protocols you expect to use for submodules must be set to
always rather than the default of user. See the description
of protocol.allow above.
url.<base>.pushInsteadOf
Any URL that starts with this value will not be pushed to;
instead, it will be rewritten to start with <base>, and the
resulting URL will be pushed to. In cases where some site
serves a large number of repositories, and serves them with
multiple access methods, some of which do not allow push,
this feature allows people to specify a pull-only URL and
have Git automatically use an appropriate URL to push, even
for a never-before-seen repository on the site. When more
than one pushInsteadOf strings match a given URL, the longest
match is used. If a remote has an explicit pushurl, Git will
ignore this setting for that remote.
user.name, user.email, author.name, author.email, committer.name,
committer.email
The user.name and user.email variables determine what ends up
in the author and committer field of commit objects. If you
need the author or committer to be different, the
author.name, author.email, committer.name or committer.email
variables can be set. Also, all of these can be overridden by
the GIT_AUTHOR_NAME, GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL, GIT_COMMITTER_NAME,
GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL and EMAIL environment variables.
Note that the name forms of these variables conventionally
refer to some form of a personal name. See git-commit(1) and
the environment variables section of git(1) for more
information on these settings and the credential.username
option if you're looking for authentication credentials
instead.
user.useConfigOnly
Instruct Git to avoid trying to guess defaults for user.email
and user.name, and instead retrieve the values only from the
configuration. For example, if you have multiple email
addresses and would like to use a different one for each
repository, then with this configuration option set to true
in the global config along with a name, Git will prompt you
to set up an email before making new commits in a newly
cloned repository. Defaults to false.
user.signingKey
If git-tag(1) or git-commit(1) is not selecting the key you
want it to automatically when creating a signed tag or
commit, you can override the default selection with this
variable. This option is passed unchanged to gpg's
--local-user parameter, so you may specify a key using any
method that gpg supports.
versionsort.prereleaseSuffix (deprecated)
Deprecated alias for versionsort.suffix. Ignored if
versionsort.suffix is set.
versionsort.suffix
Even when version sort is used in git-tag(1), tagnames with
the same base version but different suffixes are still sorted
lexicographically, resulting e.g. in prerelease tags
appearing after the main release (e.g. "1.0-rc1" after
"1.0"). This variable can be specified to determine the
sorting order of tags with different suffixes.
By specifying a single suffix in this variable, any tagname
containing that suffix will appear before the corresponding
main release. E.g. if the variable is set to "-rc", then all
"1.0-rcX" tags will appear before "1.0". If specified
multiple times, once per suffix, then the order of suffixes
in the configuration will determine the sorting order of
tagnames with those suffixes. E.g. if "-pre" appears before
"-rc" in the configuration, then all "1.0-preX" tags will be
listed before any "1.0-rcX" tags. The placement of the main
release tag relative to tags with various suffixes can be
determined by specifying the empty suffix among those other
suffixes. E.g. if the suffixes "-rc", "", "-ck" and "-bfs"
appear in the configuration in this order, then all
"v4.8-rcX" tags are listed first, followed by "v4.8", then
"v4.8-ckX" and finally "v4.8-bfsX".
If more than one suffixes match the same tagname, then that
tagname will be sorted according to the suffix which starts
at the earliest position in the tagname. If more than one
different matching suffixes start at that earliest position,
then that tagname will be sorted according to the longest of
those suffixes. The sorting order between different suffixes
is undefined if they are in multiple config files.
web.browser
Specify a web browser that may be used by some commands.
Currently only git-instaweb(1) and git-help(1) may use it.
worktree.guessRemote
If no branch is specified and neither -b nor -B nor --detach
is used, then git worktree add defaults to creating a new
branch from HEAD. If worktree.guessRemote is set to true,
worktree add tries to find a remote-tracking branch whose
name uniquely matches the new branch name. If such a branch
exists, it is checked out and set as "upstream" for the new
branch. If no such match can be found, it falls back to
creating a new branch from the current HEAD.
