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   gitfaq    ( 7 )

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Конфигурация (Configuration)

What should I put in user.name? You should put your personal name, generally a form using a given name and family name. For example, the current maintainer of Git uses "Junio C Hamano". This will be the name portion that is stored in every commit you make.

This configuration doesn't have any effect on authenticating to remote services; for that, see credential.username in git-config(1).

What does http.postBuffer really do? This option changes the size of the buffer that Git uses when pushing data to a remote over HTTP or HTTPS. If the data is larger than this size, libcurl, which handles the HTTP support for Git, will use chunked transfer encoding since it isn't known ahead of time what the size of the pushed data will be.

Leaving this value at the default size is fine unless you know that either the remote server or a proxy in the middle doesn't support HTTP/1.1 (which introduced the chunked transfer encoding) or is known to be broken with chunked data. This is often (erroneously) suggested as a solution for generic push problems, but since almost every server and proxy supports at least HTTP/1.1, raising this value usually doesn't solve most push problems. A server or proxy that didn't correctly support HTTP/1.1 and chunked transfer encoding wouldn't be that useful on the Internet today, since it would break lots of traffic.

Note that increasing this value will increase the memory used on every relevant push that Git does over HTTP or HTTPS, since the entire buffer is allocated regardless of whether or not it is all used. Thus, it's best to leave it at the default unless you are sure you need a different value.

How do I configure a different editor? If you haven't specified an editor specifically for Git, it will by default use the editor you've configured using the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables, or if neither is specified, the system default (which is usually vi). Since some people find vi difficult to use or prefer a different editor, it may be desirable to change the editor used.

If you want to configure a general editor for most programs which need one, you can edit your shell configuration (e.g., ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshenv) to contain a line setting the EDITOR or VISUAL environment variable to an appropriate value. For example, if you prefer the editor nano, then you could write the following:

export VISUAL=nano

If you want to configure an editor specifically for Git, you can either set the core.editor configuration value or the GIT_EDITOR environment variable. You can see git-var(1) for details on the order in which these options are consulted.

Note that in all cases, the editor value will be passed to the shell, so any arguments containing spaces should be appropriately quoted. Additionally, if your editor normally detaches from the terminal when invoked, you should specify it with an argument that makes it not do that, or else Git will not see any changes. An example of a configuration addressing both of these issues on Windows would be the configuration "C:\Program Files\Vim\gvim.exe" --nofork, which quotes the filename with spaces and specifies the --nofork option to avoid backgrounding the process.