CONFIGURATION FILE ------------------ The Git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect the Git commands' behavior. The `.git/config` file in each repository is used to store the configuration for that repository, and `$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig` can be used to store a system-wide default configuration. The configuration variables are used by both the Git plumbing and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last dot. The variable names are case-insensitive, allow only alphanumeric characters and `-`, and must start with an alphabetic character. Some variables may appear multiple times; we say then that the variable is multivalued. Syntax ~~~~~~ The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly ignored. The '#' and ';' characters begin comments to the end of line, blank lines are ignored. The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next section begins. Section names are case-insensitive. Only alphanumeric characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. Each variable must belong to some section, which means that there must be a section header before the first setting of a variable. Sections can be further divided into subsections. To begin a subsection put its name in double quotes, separated by space from the section name, in the section header, like in the example below: -------- [section "subsection"] -------- Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except newline and the null byte. Doublequote `"` and backslash can be included by escaping them as `\"` and `\\`, respectively. Backslashes preceding other characters are dropped when reading; for example, `\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 backquote and the end-of-line are stripped. Leading whitespaces after 'name =', the remainder of the line after the first comment character '#' or ';', and trailing whitespaces of the line are discarded unless they are enclosed in double quotes. Internal whitespaces within the value are retained verbatim. Inside double quotes, double quote `"` and backslash `\` characters must be escaped: use `\"` for `"` and `\\` for `\`. The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized: `\n` for newline character (NL), `\t` for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB) and `\b` for backspace (BS). Other char escape sequences (including octal escape sequences) are invalid. 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..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 linkgit:gitignore[5] for details. For convenience: * If the pattern starts with `~/`, `~` will be substituted with the content of the environment variable `HOME`. * If the pattern starts with `./`, it is replaced with the directory containing the current config file. * If the pattern does not start with either `~/`, `./` or `/`, `**/` will be automatically prepended. For example, the pattern `foo/bar` becomes `**/foo/bar` and would match `/any/path/to/foo/bar`. * If the pattern ends with `/`, `**` will be automatically added. For example, the pattern `foo/` becomes `foo/**`. In other words, it matches "foo" and everything inside, recursively. `gitdir/i`:: This is the same as `gitdir` except that matching is done case-insensitively (e.g. on case-insensitive file sytems) A few more notes on matching via `gitdir` and `gitdir/i`: * Symlinks in `$GIT_DIR` are not resolved before matching. * Both the symlink & realpath versions of paths will be matched outside of `$GIT_DIR`. E.g. if ~/git is a symlink to /mnt/storage/git, both `gitdir:~/git` and `gitdir:/mnt/storage/git` will match. + This was not the case in the initial release of this feature in v2.13.0, which only matched the realpath version. Configuration that wants to be compatible with the initial release of this feature needs to either specify only the realpath version, or both versions. * Note that "../" is not special and will match literally, which is unlikely what you want. Example ~~~~~~~ # Core variables [core] ; Don't trust file modes filemode = false # Our diff algorithm [diff] external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper renames = true [branch "devel"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/devel # Proxy settings [core] gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org" gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest [include] path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include by absolute path path = foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" relative to the current file path = ~/foo.inc ; find "foo.inc" in your `$HOME` directory ; include if $GIT_DIR is /path/to/foo/.git [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/foo/.git"] path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include for all repositories inside /path/to/group [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"] path = /path/to/foo.inc ; include for all repositories inside $HOME/to/group [includeIf "gitdir:~/to/group/"] path = /path/to/foo.inc ; relative paths are always relative to the including ; file (if the condition is true); their location is not ; affected by the condition [includeIf "gitdir:/path/to/group/"] path = foo.inc Values ~~~~~~ Values of many variables are treated as a simple string, but there are variables that take values of specific types and there are rules as to how to spell them. boolean:: When a variable is said to take a boolean value, many synonyms are accepted for 'true' and 'false'; these are all case-insensitive. true;; Boolean true literals are `yes`, `on`, `true`, and `1`. Also, a variable defined without `= ` is taken as true. false;; Boolean false literals are `no`, `off`, `false`, `0` and the empty string. + When converting value to the canonical form using `--bool` type specifier, 'git config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false" (spelled in lowercase). integer:: The value for many variables that specify various sizes can be suffixed with `k`, `M`,... to mean "scale the number by 1024", "by 1024x1024", etc. color:: The value for a variable that takes a color is a list of colors (at most two, one for foreground and one for background) and attributes (as many as you want), separated by spaces. + The basic colors accepted are `normal`, `black`, `red`, `green`, `yellow`, `blue`, `magenta`, `cyan` and `white`. The first color given is the foreground; the second is the background. + Colors may also be given as numbers between 0 and 255; these use ANSI 256-color mode (but note that not all terminals may support this). If your terminal supports it, you may also specify 24-bit RGB values as hex, like `#ff0ab3`. + The accepted attributes are `bold`, `dim`, `ul`, `blink`, `reverse`, `italic`, and `strike` (for crossed-out or "strikethrough" letters). The position of any attributes with respect to the colors (before, after, or in between), doesn't matter. Specific attributes may be turned off by prefixing them with `no` or `no-` (e.g., `noreverse`, `no-ul`, etc). + An empty color string produces no color effect at all. This can be used to avoid coloring specific elements without disabling color entirely. + For git's pre-defined color slots, the attributes are meant to be reset at the beginning of each item in the colored output. So setting `color.decorate.branch` to `black` will paint that branch name in a plain `black`, even if the previous thing on the same output line (e.g. opening parenthesis before the list of branch names in `log --decorate` output) is set to be painted with `bold` or some other attribute. However, custom log formats may do more complicated and layered coloring, and the negated forms may be useful there. pathname:: A variable that takes a pathname value can be given a string that begins with "`~/`" or "`~user/`", and the usual tilde expansion happens to such a string: `~/` is expanded to the value of `$HOME`, and `~user/` to the specified user's home directory. Variables ~~~~~~~~~ Note that this list is non-comprehensive and not necessarily complete. For command-specific variables, you will find a more detailed description in the appropriate manual page. Other git-related tools may and do use their own variables. When inventing new variables for use in your own tool, make sure their names do not conflict with those that are used by Git itself and other popular tools, and describe them in your documentation. advice.*:: These variables control various optional help messages designed to aid new users. All 'advice.*' variables default to 'true', and you can tell Git that you do not need help by setting these to 'false': + -- pushUpdateRejected:: Set this variable to 'false' if you want to disable 'pushNonFFCurrent', 'pushNonFFMatching', 'pushAlreadyExists', 'pushFetchFirst', and 'pushNeedsForce' simultaneously. pushNonFFCurrent:: Advice shown when linkgit:git-push[1] fails due to a non-fast-forward update to the current branch. pushNonFFMatching:: Advice shown when you ran linkgit: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 linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that does not qualify for fast-forwarding (e.g., a tag.) pushFetchFirst:: Shown when linkgit: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 linkgit:git-push[1] rejects an update that tries to overwrite a remote ref that points at an object that is not a commit-ish, or make the remote ref point at an object that is not a commit-ish. statusHints:: Show directions on how to proceed from the current state in the output of linkgit:git-status[1], in the template shown when writing commit messages in linkgit:git-commit[1], and in the help message shown by linkgit:git-checkout[1] when switching branch. statusUoption:: Advise to consider using the `-u` option to linkgit:git-status[1] when the command takes more than 2 seconds to enumerate untracked files. commitBeforeMerge:: Advice shown when linkgit:git-merge[1] refuses to merge to avoid overwriting local changes. resolveConflict:: Advice shown by various commands when conflicts prevent the operation from being performed. implicitIdentity:: Advice on how to set your identity configuration when your information is guessed from the system username and domain name. detachedHead:: Advice shown when you used linkgit:git-checkout[1] to move to the detach HEAD state, to instruct how to create a local branch after the fact. amWorkDir:: Advice that shows the location of the patch file when linkgit:git-am[1] fails to apply it. rmHints:: In case of failure in the output of linkgit:git-rm[1], show directions on how to proceed from the current state. addEmbeddedRepo:: Advice on what to do when you've accidentally added one git repo inside of another. ignoredHook:: Advice shown if an hook is ignored because the hook is not set as executable. waitingForEditor:: Print a message to the terminal whenever Git is waiting for editor input from the user. -- core.fileMode:: Tells Git if the executable bit of files in the working tree is to be honored. + Some filesystems lose the executable bit when a file that is marked as executable is checked out, or checks out a non-executable file with executable bit on. linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit: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 linkgit:git-update-index[1]. + The default is true (when core.filemode is not specified in the config file). core.hideDotFiles:: (Windows-only) If true, mark newly-created directories and files whose name starts with a dot as hidden. If 'dotGitOnly', only the `.git/` directory is hidden, but no other files starting with a dot. The default mode is 'dotGitOnly'. core.ignoreCase:: If true, this option enables various workarounds to enable Git to work better on filesystems that are not case sensitive, like FAT. For example, if a directory listing finds "makefile" when Git expects "Makefile", Git will assume it is really the same file, and continue to remember it as "Makefile". + The default is false, except linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit:git-init[1] will probe and set core.ignoreCase true if appropriate when the repository is created. core.precomposeUnicode:: This option is only used by Mac OS implementation of Git. When core.precomposeUnicode=true, Git reverts the unicode decomposition of filenames done by Mac OS. This is useful when sharing a repository between Mac OS and Linux or Windows. (Git for Windows 1.7.10 or higher is needed, or Git under cygwin 1.7). When false, file names are handled fully transparent by Git, which is backward compatible with older versions of Git. core.protectHFS:: If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would be considered equivalent to `.git` on an HFS+ filesystem. Defaults to `true` on Mac OS, and `false` elsewhere. core.protectNTFS:: If set to true, do not allow checkout of paths that would cause problems with the NTFS filesystem, e.g. conflict with 8.3 "short" names. Defaults to `true` on Windows, and `false` elsewhere. core.fsmonitor:: If set, the value of this variable is used as a command which will identify all files that may have changed since the requested date/time. This information is used to speed up git by avoiding unnecessary processing of files that have not changed. See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of linkgit:githooks[5]. core.trustctime:: If false, the ctime differences between the index and the working tree are ignored; useful when the inode change time is regularly modified by something outside Git (file system crawlers and some backup systems). See linkgit:git-update-index[1]. True by default. core.splitIndex:: If true, the split-index feature of the index will be used. See linkgit: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 linkgit:git-update-index[1]. `keep` by default. core.checkStat:: Determines which stat fields to match between the index and work tree. The user can set this to 'default' or 'minimal'. Default (or explicitly 'default'), is to check all fields, including the sub-second part of mtime and ctime. core.quotePath:: Commands that output paths (e.g. 'ls-files', 'diff'), will quote "unusual" characters in the pathname by enclosing the pathname in double-quotes and escaping those characters with backslashes in the same way C escapes control characters (e.g. `\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 have the `text` property set when core.autocrlf is false. Alternatives are 'lf', 'crlf' and 'native', which uses the platform's native line ending. The default value is `native`. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for more information on end-of-line conversion. core.safecrlf:: If true, makes Git check if converting `CRLF` is reversible when end-of-line conversion is active. Git will verify if a command modifies a file in the work tree either directly or indirectly. For example, committing a file followed by checking out the same file should yield the original file in the work tree. If this is not the case for the current setting of `core.autocrlf`, Git will reject the file. The variable can be set to "warn", in which case Git will only warn about an irreversible conversion but continue the operation. + CRLF conversion bears a slight chance of corrupting data. When it is enabled, Git will convert CRLF to LF during commit and LF to CRLF during checkout. A file that contains a mixture of LF and CRLF before the commit cannot be recreated by Git. For text files this is the right thing to do: it corrects line endings such that we have only LF line endings in the repository. But for binary files that are accidentally classified as text the conversion can corrupt data. + If you recognize such corruption early you can easily fix it by setting the conversion type explicitly in .gitattributes. Right after committing you still have the original file in your work tree and this file is not yet corrupted. You can explicitly tell Git that this file is binary and Git will handle the file appropriately. + Unfortunately, the desired effect of cleaning up text files with mixed line endings and the undesired effect of corrupting binary files cannot be distinguished. In both cases CRLFs are removed in an irreversible way. For text files this is the right thing to do because CRLFs are line endings, while for binary files converting CRLFs corrupts data. + Note, this safety check does not mean that a checkout will generate a file identical to the original file for a different setting of `core.eol` and `core.autocrlf`, but only for the current one. For example, a text file with `LF` would be accepted with `core.eol=lf` and could later be checked out with `core.eol=crlf`, in which case the resulting file would contain `CRLF`, although the original file contained `LF`. However, in both work trees the line endings would be consistent, that is either all `LF` or all `CRLF`, but never mixed. A file with mixed line endings would be reported by the `core.safecrlf` mechanism. core.autocrlf:: Setting this variable to "true" is the same as setting the `text` attribute to "auto" on all files and core.eol to "crlf". Set to true if you want to have `CRLF` line endings in your working directory and the repository has LF line endings. This variable can be set to 'input', in which case no output conversion is performed. core.symlinks:: If false, symbolic links are checked out as small plain files that contain the link text. linkgit:git-update-index[1] and linkgit: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 linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit: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 linkgit:git-update-index[1]). Git will not normally detect changes to those files. + This is useful on systems where lstat() calls are very slow, such as CIFS/Microsoft Windows. + False by default. core.preferSymlinkRefs:: Instead of the default "symref" format for HEAD and other symbolic reference files, use symbolic links. This is sometimes needed to work with old scripts that expect HEAD to be a symbolic link. core.bare:: If true this repository is assumed to be 'bare' and has no working directory associated with it. If this is the case a number of commands that require a working directory will be disabled, such as linkgit:git-add[1] or linkgit:git-merge[1]. + This setting is automatically guessed by linkgit:git-clone[1] or linkgit: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 is logged to the file "`$GIT_DIR/logs/`", by appending the new and old SHA-1, the date/time and the reason of the update, but only when the file exists. If this configuration variable is set to `true`, missing "`$GIT_DIR/logs/`" 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 linkgit:git-init[1]. False by default. core.warnAmbiguousRefs:: If true, Git will warn you if the ref name you passed it is ambiguous and might match multiple refs in the repository. True by default. core.compression:: An integer -1..9, indicating a default compression level. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If set, this provides a default to other compression variables, such as `core.looseCompression` and `pack.compression`. core.looseCompression:: An integer -1..9, indicating the compression level for objects that are not in a pack file. -1 is the zlib default. 0 means no compression, and 1..9 are various speed/size tradeoffs, 9 being slowest. If not set, defaults to core.compression. If that is not set, defaults to 1 (best speed). core.packedGitWindowSize:: Number of bytes of a pack file to map into memory in a single mapping operation. Larger window sizes may allow your system to process a smaller number of large pack files more quickly. Smaller window sizes will negatively affect performance due to increased calls to the operating system's memory manager, but may improve performance when accessing a large number of large pack files. + Default is 1 MiB if NO_MMAP was set at compile time, otherwise 32 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 1 GiB on 64 bit platforms. This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems. You probably do not need to adjust this value. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.packedGitLimit:: Maximum number of bytes to map simultaneously into memory from pack files. If Git needs to access more than this many bytes at once to complete an operation it will unmap existing regions to reclaim virtual address space within the process. + Default is 256 MiB on 32 bit platforms and 32 TiB (effectively unlimited) on 64 bit platforms. This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.deltaBaseCacheLimit:: Maximum number of bytes to reserve for caching base objects that may be referenced by multiple deltified objects. By storing the entire decompressed base objects in a cache Git is able to avoid unpacking and decompressing frequently used base objects multiple times. + Default is 96 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable for all users/operating systems, except on the largest projects. You probably do not need to adjust this value. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.bigFileThreshold:: Files larger than this size are stored deflated, without attempting delta compression. Storing large files without delta compression avoids excessive memory usage, at the slight expense of increased disk usage. Additionally files larger than this size are always treated as binary. + Default is 512 MiB on all platforms. This should be reasonable for most projects as source code and other text files can still be delta compressed, but larger binary media files won't be. + Common unit suffixes of 'k', 'm', or 'g' are supported. core.excludesFile:: Specifies the pathname to the file that contains patterns to describe paths that are not meant to be tracked, in addition to '.gitignore' (per-directory) and '.git/info/exclude'. Defaults to `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore`. If `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME` is either not set or empty, `$HOME/.config/git/ignore` is used instead. See linkgit:gitignore[5]. core.askPass:: Some commands (e.g. svn and http interfaces) that interactively ask for a password can be told to use an external program given via the value of this variable. Can be overridden by the `GIT_ASKPASS` environment variable. If not set, fall back to the value of the `SSH_ASKPASS` environment variable or, failing that, a simple password prompt. The external program shall be given a suitable prompt as command-line argument and write the password on its STDOUT. core.attributesFile:: In addition to '.gitattributes' (per-directory) and '.git/info/attributes', Git looks into this file for attributes (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). Path expansions are made the same way as for `core.excludesFile`. Its default value is `$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 linkgit: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 linkgit:git-var[1]. core.commentChar:: Commands such as `commit` and `tag` that let you edit messages consider a line that begins with this character commented, and removes them after the editor returns (default '#'). + If set to "auto", `git-commit` would select a character that is not the beginning character of any line in existing commit messages. core.filesRefLockTimeout:: The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to lock an individual reference. Value 0 means not to retry at all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 100 (i.e., retry for 100ms). core.packedRefsTimeout:: The length of time, in milliseconds, to retry when trying to lock the `packed-refs` file. Value 0 means not to retry at all; -1 means to try indefinitely. Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for 1 second). sequence.editor:: Text editor used by `git rebase -i` for editing the rebase instruction file. The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell when it is used. It can be overridden by the `GIT_SEQUENCE_EDITOR` environment variable. When not configured the default commit message editor is used instead. core.pager:: Text viewer for use by Git commands (e.g., 'less'). The value is meant to be interpreted by the shell. The order of preference is the `$GIT_PAGER` environment variable, then `core.pager` configuration, then `$PAGER`, and then the default chosen at compile time (usually 'less'). + When the `LESS` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `FRX` (if `LESS` environment variable is set, Git does not change it at all). If you want to selectively override Git's default setting for `LESS`, you can set `core.pager` to e.g. `less -S`. This will be passed to the shell by Git, which will translate the final command to `LESS=FRX less -S`. The environment does not set the `S` option but the command line does, instructing less to truncate long lines. Similarly, setting `core.pager` to `less -+F` will deactivate the `F` option specified by the environment from the command-line, deactivating the "quit if one screen" behavior of `less`. One can specifically activate some flags for particular commands: for example, setting `pager.blame` to `less -S` enables line truncation only for `git blame`. + Likewise, when the `LV` environment variable is unset, Git sets it to `-c`. You can override this setting by exporting `LV` with another value or setting `core.pager` to `lv +c`. core.whitespace:: A comma separated list of common whitespace problems to notice. 'git diff' will use `color.diff.whitespace` to highlight them, and 'git apply --whitespace=error' will consider them as errors. You can prefix `-` to disable any of them (e.g. `-trailing-space`): + * `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=` tells how many character positions a tab occupies; this is relevant for `indent-with-non-tab` and when Git fixes `tab-in-indent` errors. The default tab width is 8. Allowed values are 1 to 63. core.fsyncObjectFiles:: This boolean will enable 'fsync()' when writing object files. + This is a total waste of time and effort on a filesystem that orders data writes properly, but can be useful for filesystems that do not use journalling (traditional UNIX filesystems) or that only journal metadata and not file contents (OS X's HFS+, or Linux ext3 with "data=writeback"). core.preloadIndex:: Enable parallel index preload for operations like 'git diff' + This can speed up operations like 'git diff' and 'git status' especially on filesystems like NFS that have weak caching semantics and thus relatively high IO latencies. When enabled, Git will do the index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing overlapping IO's. Defaults to true. core.createObject:: You can set this to 'link', in which case a hardlink followed by a delete of the source are used to make sure that object creation will not overwrite existing objects. + On some file system/operating system combinations, this is unreliable. Set this config setting to 'rename' there; However, This will remove the check that makes sure that existing object files will not get overwritten. core.notesRef:: When showing commit messages, also show notes which are stored in the given ref. The ref must be fully qualified. If the given ref does not exist, it is not an error but means that no notes should be printed. + This setting defaults to "refs/notes/commits", and it can be overridden by the `GIT_NOTES_REF` environment variable. See linkgit:git-notes[1]. core.sparseCheckout:: Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information. core.abbrev:: Set the length object names are abbreviated to. If unspecified or set to "auto", an appropriate value is computed based on the approximate number of packed objects in your repository, which hopefully is enough for abbreviated object names to stay unique for some time. The minimum length is 4. add.ignoreErrors:: add.ignore-errors (deprecated):: Tells 'git add' to continue adding files when some files cannot be added due to indexing errors. Equivalent to the `--ignore-errors` option of linkgit:git-add[1]. `add.ignore-errors` is deprecated, as it does not follow the usual naming convention for configuration variables. alias.*:: Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g. after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation "git last" is equivalent to "git cat-file commit HEAD". To avoid confusion and troubles with script usage, aliases that hide existing Git commands are ignored. Arguments are split by spaces, the usual shell quoting and escaping is supported. A quote pair or a backslash can be used to quote them. + If the alias expansion is prefixed with an exclamation point, it will be treated as a shell command. For example, defining "alias.new = !gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD", the invocation "git new" is equivalent to running the shell command "gitk --all --not ORIG_HEAD". Note that shell commands will be executed from the top-level directory of a repository, which may not necessarily be the current directory. `GIT_PREFIX` is set as returned by running 'git rev-parse --show-prefix' from the original current directory. See linkgit: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 linkgit:git-am[1], linkgit: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 linkgit: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 linkgit:git-apply[1]. apply.whitespace:: Tells 'git apply' how to handle whitespaces, in the same way as the `--whitespace` option. See linkgit:git-apply[1]. blame.showRoot:: Do not treat root commits as boundaries in linkgit:git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false. blame.blankBoundary:: Show blank commit object name for boundary commits in linkgit:git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false. blame.showEmail:: Show the author email instead of author name in linkgit:git-blame[1]. This option defaults to false. blame.date:: Specifies the format used to output dates in linkgit:git-blame[1]. If unset the iso format is used. For supported values, see the discussion of the `--date` option at linkgit:git-log[1]. branch.autoSetupMerge:: Tells 'git branch' and 'git checkout' to set up new branches so that linkgit:git-pull[1] will appropriately merge from the starting point branch. Note that even if this option is not set, this behavior can be chosen per-branch using the `--track` and `--no-track` options. The valid settings are: `false` -- no automatic setup is done; `true` -- automatic setup is done when the starting point is a remote-tracking branch; `always` -- automatic setup is done when the starting point is either a local branch or remote-tracking branch. This option defaults to true. branch.autoSetupRebase:: When a new branch is created with 'git branch' or 'git checkout' that tracks another branch, this variable tells Git to set up pull to rebase instead of merge (see "branch..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..remote:: When on branch , 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..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..merge`'s final note below. branch..pushRemote:: When on branch , it overrides `branch..remote` for pushing. It also overrides `remote.pushDefault` for pushing from branch . 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..merge:: Defines, together with branch..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 , 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..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 from another branch in the local repository, you can point branch..merge to the desired branch, and use the relative path setting `.` (a period) for branch..remote. branch..mergeOptions:: Sets default options for merging into branch . The syntax and supported options are the same as those of linkgit:git-merge[1], but option values containing whitespace characters are currently not supported. branch..rebase:: When true, rebase the branch on top of the fetched branch, instead of merging the default branch from the default remote when "git pull" is run. See "pull.rebase" for doing this in a non branch-specific manner. + When preserve, also pass `--preserve-merges` along to 'git rebase' so that locally committed merge commits will not be flattened by running 'git pull'. + When the value is `interactive`, the rebase is run in interactive mode. + *NOTE*: this is a possibly dangerous operation; do *not* use it unless you understand the implications (see linkgit:git-rebase[1] for details). branch..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..cmd:: Specify the command to invoke the specified browser. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the URLs passed as arguments. (See linkgit:git-web{litdd}browse[1].) browser..path:: Override the path for the given tool that may be used to browse HTML help (see `-w` option in linkgit:git-help[1]) or a working repository in gitweb (see linkgit:git-instaweb[1]). clean.requireForce:: A boolean to make git-clean do nothing unless given -f, -i or -n. Defaults to true. color.branch:: A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of linkgit: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.:: Use customized color for branch coloration. `` 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`, linkgit:git-diff[1], linkgit:git-log[1], and linkgit: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 linkgit:git-format-patch[1] or the 'git-diff-{asterisk}' plumbing commands. Can be overridden on the command line with the `--color[=]` option. diff.colorMoved:: If set to either a valid `` or a true value, moved lines in a diff are colored differently, for details of valid modes see '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1]. If simply set to true the default color mode will be used. When set to false, moved lines are not colored. color.diff.:: Use customized color for diff colorization. `` specifies which part of the patch to use the specified color, and is one of `context` (context text - `plain` is a historical synonym), `meta` (metainformation), `frag` (hunk header), 'func' (function in hunk header), `old` (removed lines), `new` (added lines), `commit` (commit headers), `whitespace` (highlighting whitespace errors), `oldMoved` (deleted lines), `newMoved` (added lines), `oldMovedDimmed`, `oldMovedAlternative`, `oldMovedAlternativeDimmed`, `newMovedDimmed`, `newMovedAlternative` and `newMovedAlternativeDimmed` (See the '' setting of '--color-moved' in linkgit:git-diff[1] for details). color.decorate.:: Use customized color for 'git log --decorate' output. `` is one of `branch`, `remoteBranch`, `tag`, `stash` or `HEAD` for local branches, remote-tracking branches, tags, stash and HEAD, respectively. color.grep:: When set to `always`, always highlight matches. When `false` (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use color only when the output is written to the terminal. If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default). color.grep.:: Use customized color for grep colorization. `` specifies which part of the line to use the specified color, and is one of + -- `context`;; non-matching text in context lines (when using `-A`, `-B`, or `-C`) `filename`;; filename prefix (when not using `-h`) `function`;; function name lines (when using `-p`) `linenumber`;; line number prefix (when using `-n`) `match`;; matching text (same as setting `matchContext` and `matchSelected`) `matchContext`;; matching text in context lines `matchSelected`;; matching text in selected lines `selected`;; non-matching text in selected lines `separator`;; separators between fields on a line (`:`, `-`, and `=`) and between hunks (`--`) -- color.interactive:: When set to `always`, always use colors for interactive prompts and displays (such as those used by "git-add --interactive" and "git-clean --interactive"). When false (or `never`), never. When set to `true` or `auto`, use colors only when the output is to the terminal. If unset, then the value of `color.ui` is used (`auto` by default). color.interactive.:: Use customized color for 'git add --interactive' and 'git clean --interactive' output. `` may be `prompt`, `header`, `help` or `error`, for four distinct types of normal output from interactive commands. color.pager:: A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in use (default is true). color.showBranch:: A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of linkgit: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 linkgit: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.:: Use customized color for status colorization. `` is one of `header` (the header text of the status message), `added` or `updated` (files which are added but not committed), `changed` (files which are changed but not added in the index), `untracked` (files which are not tracked by Git), `branch` (the current branch), `nobranch` (the color the 'no branch' warning is shown in, defaulting to red), `localBranch` or `remoteBranch` (the local and remote branch names, respectively, when branch and tracking information is displayed in the status short-format), or `unmerged` (files which have unmerged changes). color.ui:: This variable determines the default value for variables such as `color.diff` and `color.grep` that control the use of color per command family. Its scope will expand as more commands learn configuration to set a default for the `--color` option. Set it to `false` or `never` if you prefer Git commands not to use color unless enabled explicitly with some other configuration or the `--color` option. Set it to `always` if you want all output not intended for machine consumption to use color, to `true` or `auto` (this is the default since Git 1.8.4) if you want such output to use color when written to the terminal. column.ui:: Specify whether supported commands should output in columns. This variable consists of a list of tokens separated by spaces or commas: + These options control when the feature should be enabled (defaults to 'never'): + -- `always`;; always show in columns `never`;; never show in columns `auto`;; show in columns if the output is to the terminal -- + These options control layout (defaults to 'column'). Setting any of these implies 'always' if none of 'always', 'never', or 'auto' are specified. + -- `column`;; fill columns before rows `row`;; fill rows before columns `plain`;; show in one column -- + Finally, these options can be combined with a layout option (defaults to 'nodense'): + -- `dense`;; make unequal size columns to utilize more space `nodense`;; make equal size columns -- column.branch:: Specify whether to output branch listing in `git branch` in columns. See `column.ui` for details. column.clean:: Specify the layout when list items in `git clean -i`, which always shows files and directories in columns. See `column.ui` for details. column.status:: Specify whether to output untracked files in `git status` in columns. See `column.ui` for details. column.tag:: Specify whether to output tag listing in `git tag` in columns. See `column.ui` for details. commit.cleanup:: This setting overrides the default of the `--cleanup` option in `git commit`. See linkgit: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 linkgit:git-commit[1]. credential.helper:: Specify an external helper to be called when a username or password credential is needed; the helper may consult external storage to avoid prompting the user for the credentials. Note that multiple helpers may be defined. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details. credential.useHttpPath:: When acquiring credentials, consider the "path" component of an http or https URL to be important. Defaults to false. See linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for more information. credential.username:: If no username is set for a network authentication, use this username by default. See credential..* below, and linkgit:gitcredentials[7]. credential..*:: 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 linkgit:gitcredentials[7] for details on how URLs are matched. credentialCache.ignoreSIGHUP:: Tell git-credential-cache--daemon to ignore SIGHUP, instead of quitting. include::diff-config.txt[] difftool..path:: Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case your tool is not in the PATH. difftool..cmd:: Specify the command to invoke the specified diff tool. The specified command is evaluated in shell with the following variables available: 'LOCAL' is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents of the diff pre-image and 'REMOTE' is set to the name of the temporary file containing the contents of the diff post-image. difftool.prompt:: Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool. fastimport.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects imported by linkgit:git-fast-import[1] is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object files. However if the number of imported objects equals or exceeds this limit then the pack will be stored as a pack. Storing the pack from a fast-import can make the import operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. fetch.recurseSubmodules:: This option can be either set to a boolean value or to 'on-demand'. Setting it to a boolean changes the behavior of fetch and pull to unconditionally recurse into submodules when set to true or to not recurse at all when set to false. When set to 'on-demand' (the default value), fetch and pull will only recurse into a populated submodule when its superproject retrieves a commit that updates the submodule's reference. fetch.fsckObjects:: If it is set to true, git-fetch-pack will check all fetched objects. It will abort in the case of a malformed object or a broken link. The result of an abort are only dangling objects. Defaults to false. If not set, the value of `transfer.fsckObjects` is used instead. fetch.unpackLimit:: If the number of objects fetched over the Git native transfer is below this limit, then the objects will be unpacked into loose object files. However if the number of received objects equals or exceeds this limit then the received pack will be stored as a pack, after adding any missing delta bases. Storing the pack from a push can make the push operation complete faster, especially on slow filesystems. If not set, the value of `transfer.unpackLimit` is used instead. fetch.prune:: If true, fetch will automatically behave as if the `--prune` option was given on the command line. See also `remote..prune` and the PRUNING section of linkgit: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..pruneTags` and the PRUNING section of linkgit: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 linkgit:git-fetch[1] for detail. format.attach:: Enable multipart/mixed attachments as the default for 'format-patch'. The value can also be a double quoted string which will enable attachments as the default and set the value as the boundary. See the --attach option in linkgit: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 linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. format.headers:: Additional email headers to include in a patch to be submitted by mail. See linkgit: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 linkgit:git-format-patch[1]. format.subjectPrefix:: The default for format-patch is to output files with the '[PATCH]' subject prefix. Use this variable to change that prefix. format.signature:: The default for format-patch is to output a signature containing the Git version number. Use this variable to change that default. Set this variable to the empty string ("") to suppress signature generation. format.signatureFile:: Works just like format.signature except the contents of the file specified by this variable will be used as the signature. format.suffix:: The default for format-patch is to output files with the suffix `.patch`. Use this variable to change that suffix (make sure to include the dot if you want it). format.pretty:: The default pretty format for log/show/whatchanged command, See linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-show[1], linkgit:git-whatchanged[1]. format.thread:: The default threading style for 'git format-patch'. Can be a boolean value, or `shallow` or `deep`. `shallow` threading makes every mail a reply to the head of the series, where the head is chosen from the cover letter, the `--in-reply-to`, and the first patch mail, in this order. `deep` threading makes every mail a reply to the previous one. A true boolean value is the same as `shallow`, and a false value disables threading. format.signOff:: A boolean value which lets you enable the `-s/--signoff` option of format-patch by default. *Note:* Adding the Signed-off-by: line to a patch should be a conscious act and means that you certify you have the rights to submit this work under the same open source license. Please see the 'SubmittingPatches' document for further discussion. format.coverLetter:: A boolean that controls whether to generate a cover-letter when format-patch is invoked, but in addition can be set to "auto", to generate a cover-letter only when there's more than one patch. format.outputDirectory:: Set a custom directory to store the resulting files instead of the current working directory. format.useAutoBase:: A boolean value which lets you enable the `--base=auto` option of format-patch by default. filter..clean:: The command which is used to convert the content of a worktree file to a blob upon checkin. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. filter..smudge:: The command which is used to convert the content of a blob object to a worktree file upon checkout. See linkgit:gitattributes[5] for details. fsck.:: Allows overriding the message type (error, warn or ignore) of a specific message ID such as `missingEmail`. + For convenience, fsck prefixes the error/warning with the message ID, e.g. "missingEmail: invalid author/committer line - missing email" means that setting `fsck.missingEmail = ignore` will hide that issue. + This feature is intended to support working with legacy repositories which cannot be repaired without disruptive changes. fsck.skipList:: The path to a sorted list of object names (i.e. one SHA-1 per line) that are known to be broken in a non-fatal way and should be ignored. This feature is useful when an established project should be accepted despite early commits containing errors that can be safely ignored such as invalid committer email addresses. Note: corrupt objects cannot be skipped with this setting. gc.aggressiveDepth:: The depth parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults to 50. gc.aggressiveWindow:: The window size parameter used in the delta compression algorithm used by 'git gc --aggressive'. This defaults to 250. gc.auto:: When there are approximately more than this many loose objects in the repository, `git gc --auto` will pack them. Some Porcelain commands use this command to perform a light-weight garbage collection from time to time. The default value is 6700. Setting this to 0 disables it. gc.autoPackLimit:: When there are more than this many packs that are not marked with `*.keep` file in the repository, `git gc --auto` consolidates them into one larger pack. The default value is 50. Setti