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<div id="header">
<h1>
git-config(1) Manual Page
</h1>
<h2>NAME</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<p>git-config -
Get and set repository or global options
</p>
</div>
</div>
<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="verseblock">
<div class="verseblock-content"><em>git config</em> [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] name [value [value_regex]]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] [type] --add name value
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] [type] --replace-all name value [value_regex]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get name [value_regex]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-all name [value_regex]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] [type] [-z|--null] --get-regexp name_regex [value_regex]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] --unset name [value_regex]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] --unset-all name [value_regex]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] --rename-section old_name new_name
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] --remove-section name
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] [-z|--null] -l | --list
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] --get-color name [default]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] --get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
<em>git config</em> [<file-option>] -e | --edit</div>
<div class="verseblock-attribution">
</div></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The name is
actually the section and the key separated by a dot, and the value will be
escaped.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the <em>--add</em> option.
If you want to update or unset an option which can occur on multiple
lines, a POSIX regexp <tt>value_regex</tt> needs to be given. Only the
existing values that match the regexp are updated or unset. If
you want to handle the lines that do <strong>not</strong> match the regex, just
prepend a single exclamation mark in front (see also <a href="#EXAMPLES">[EXAMPLES]</a>).</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The type specifier can be either <em>--int</em> or <em>--bool</em>, to make
<em>git config</em> ensure that the variable(s) are of the given type and
convert the value to the canonical form (simple decimal number for int,
a "true" or "false" string for bool), or <em>--path</em>, which does some
path expansion (see <em>--path</em> below). If no type specifier is passed, no
checks or transformations are performed on the value.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The file-option can be one of <em>--system</em>, <em>--global</em> or <em>--file</em>
which specify where the values will be read from or written to.
The default is to assume the config file of the current repository,
.git/config unless defined otherwise with GIT_DIR and GIT_CONFIG
(see <a href="#FILES">[FILES]</a>).</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This command will fail if:</p></div>
<div class="olist arabic"><ol class="arabic">
<li>
<p>
The config file is invalid,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Can not write to the config file,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
no section was provided,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
the section or key is invalid,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
you try to unset an option which does not exist,
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match, or
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
you use <em>--global</em> option without $HOME being properly set.
</p>
</li>
</ol></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_options">OPTIONS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--replace-all
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Default behavior is to replace at most one line. This replaces
all lines matching the key (and optionally the value_regex).
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--add
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Adds a new line to the option without altering any existing
values. This is the same as providing <em>^$</em> as the value_regex
in <tt>--replace-all</tt>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--get
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex
matching the value). Returns error code 1 if the key was not
found and error code 2 if multiple key values were found.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--get-all
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key
is not exactly one.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--get-regexp
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Like --get-all, but interprets the name as a regular expression.
Also outputs the key names.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--global
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather than
the repository .git/config.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig rather than
from all available files.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>See also <a href="#FILES">[FILES]</a>.</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--system
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
For writing options: write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
rather than the repository .git/config.
</p>
<div class="paragraph"><p>For reading options: read only from system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
rather than from all available files.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>See also <a href="#FILES">[FILES]</a>.</p></div>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-f config-file
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--file config-file
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Use the given config file instead of the one specified by GIT_CONFIG.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--remove-section
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Remove the given section from the configuration file.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--rename-section
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Rename the given section to a new name.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--unset
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Remove the line matching the key from config file.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--unset-all
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Remove all lines matching the key from config file.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-l
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--list
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
List all variables set in config file.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--bool
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<em>git config</em> will ensure that the output is "true" or "false"
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--int
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<em>git config</em> will ensure that the output is a simple
decimal number. An optional value suffix of <em>k</em>, <em>m</em>, or <em>g</em>
in the config file will cause the value to be multiplied
by 1024, 1048576, or 1073741824 prior to output.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--bool-or-int
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<em>git config</em> will ensure that the output matches the format of
either --bool or --int, as described above.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--path
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
<em>git-config</em> will expand leading <em>~</em> to the value of
<em>$HOME</em>, and <em>~user</em> to the home directory for the
specified user. This option has no effect when setting the
value (but you can use <em>git config bla ~/</em> from the
command line to let your shell do the expansion).
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-z
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--null
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
For all options that output values and/or keys, always
end values with the null character (instead of a
newline). Use newline instead as a delimiter between
key and value. This allows for secure parsing of the
output without getting confused e.g. by values that
contain line breaks.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--get-colorbool name [stdout-is-tty]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Find the color setting for <tt>name</tt> (e.g. <tt>color.diff</tt>) and output
"true" or "false". <tt>stdout-is-tty</tt> should be either "true" or
"false", and is taken into account when configuration says
"auto". If <tt>stdout-is-tty</tt> is missing, then checks the standard
output of the command itself, and exits with status 0 if color
is to be used, or exits with status 1 otherwise.
When the color setting for <tt>name</tt> is undefined, the command uses
<tt>color.ui</tt> as fallback.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--get-color name [default]
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Find the color configured for <tt>name</tt> (e.g. <tt>color.diff.new</tt>) and
output it as the ANSI color escape sequence to the standard
output. The optional <tt>default</tt> parameter is used instead, if
there is no color configured for <tt>name</tt>.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
-e
</dt>
<dt class="hdlist1">
--edit
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either
<em>--system</em>, <em>--global</em>, or repository (default).
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
</div>
<h2 id="FILES">FILES</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>If not set explicitly with <em>--file</em>, there are three files where
<em>git config</em> will search for configuration options:</p></div>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
$GIT_DIR/config
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Repository specific configuration file. (The filename is
of course relative to the repository root, not the working
directory.)
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
~/.gitconfig
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
User-specific configuration file. Also called "global"
configuration file.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
$(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
System-wide configuration file.
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If no further options are given, all reading options will read all of these
files that are available. If the global or the system-wide configuration
file are not available they will be ignored. If the repository configuration
file is not available or readable, <em>git config</em> will exit with a non-zero
error code. However, in neither case will an error message be issued.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>All writing options will per default write to the repository specific
configuration file. Note that this also affects options like <em>--replace-all</em>
and <em>--unset</em>. <strong><em>git config</em> will only ever change one file at a time</strong>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>You can override these rules either by command line options or by environment
variables. The <em>--global</em> and the <em>--system</em> options will limit the file used
to the global or system-wide file respectively. The GIT_CONFIG environment
variable has a similar effect, but you can specify any filename you want.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_environment">ENVIRONMENT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
GIT_CONFIG
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
Take the configuration from the given file instead of .git/config.
Using the "--global" option forces this to ~/.gitconfig. Using the
"--system" option forces this to $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.
</p>
</dd>
</dl></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>See also <a href="#FILES">[FILES]</a>.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>Given a .git/config like this:</p></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>#
# This is the config file, and
# a '#' or ';' character indicates
# a comment
#</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>; core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>; Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>; Proxy settings
[core]
gitproxy="proxy-command" for kernel.org
gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>you can set the filemode to true with</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config core.filemode true</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern
what URL they apply to. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org
to "ssh".</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config core.gitproxy '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$'</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This makes sure that only the key/value pair for kernel.org is replaced.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To delete the entry for renames, do</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config --unset diff.renames</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If you want to delete an entry for a multivar (like core.gitproxy above),
you have to provide a regex matching the value of exactly one line.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To query the value for a given key, do</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config --get core.filemode</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>or</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config core.filemode</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>or, to query a multivar:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config --get core.gitproxy "for kernel.org$"</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config --get-all core.gitproxy</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>If you like to live dangerously, you can replace <strong>all</strong> core.gitproxy by a
new one with</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config --replace-all core.gitproxy ssh</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>However, if you really only want to replace the line for the default proxy,
i.e. the one without a "for …" postfix, do something like this:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config core.gitproxy ssh '! for '</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config section.key value '[!]'</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones, use</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>% git config core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>An example to use customized color from the configuration in your
script:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>#!/bin/sh
WS=$(git config --get-color color.diff.whitespace "blue reverse")
RESET=$(git config --get-color "" "reset")
echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}"</tt></pre>
</div></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_configuration_file">CONFIGURATION FILE</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect
the git command’s behavior. The <tt>.git/config</tt> file in each repository
is used to store the configuration for that repository, and
<tt>$HOME/.gitconfig</tt> is used to store a per-user configuration as
fallback values for the <tt>.git/config</tt> file. The file <tt>/etc/gitconfig</tt>
can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>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 and only alphanumeric
characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times.</p></div>
<h3 id="_syntax">Syntax</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly
ignored. The <em>#</em> and <em>;</em> characters begin comments to the end of line,
blank lines are ignored.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The file consists of sections and variables. A section begins with
the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next
section begins. Section names are not case sensitive. Only alphanumeric
characters, <tt>-</tt> and <tt>.</tt> 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.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>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:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt> [section "subsection"]</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
newline (doublequote <tt>"</tt> and backslash have to be escaped as <tt>\"</tt> and <tt>\\</tt>,
respectively). Section headers cannot span multiple
lines. Variables may belong directly to a section or to a given subsection.
You can have <tt>[section]</tt> if you have <tt>[section "subsection"]</tt>, but you
don’t need to.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>There is also a case insensitive alternative <tt>[section.subsection]</tt> syntax.
In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section
names.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>All the other lines (and the remainder of the line after the section
header) are recognized as setting variables, in the form
<em>name = value</em>. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line
is taken as <em>name</em> and the variable is recognized as boolean "true".
The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric
characters and <tt>-</tt> are allowed. There can be more than one value
for a given variable; we say then that variable is multivalued.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Leading and trailing whitespace in a variable value is discarded.
Internal whitespace within a variable value is retained verbatim.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The values following the equals sign in variable assign are all either
a string, an integer, or a boolean. Boolean values may be given as yes/no,
0/1, true/false or on/off. Case is not significant in boolean values, when
converting value to the canonical form using <em>--bool</em> type specifier;
<em>git config</em> will ensure that the output is "true" or "false".</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes.
You need to enclose variable values in double quotes if you want to
preserve leading or trailing whitespace, or if the variable value contains
comment characters (i.e. it contains <em>#</em> or <em>;</em>).
Double quote <tt>"</tt> and backslash <tt>\</tt> characters in variable values must
be escaped: use <tt>\"</tt> for <tt>"</tt> and <tt>\\</tt> for <tt>\</tt>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The following escape sequences (beside <tt>\"</tt> and <tt>\\</tt>) are recognized:
<tt>\n</tt> for newline character (NL), <tt>\t</tt> for horizontal tabulation (HT, TAB)
and <tt>\b</tt> for backspace (BS). No other char escape sequence, nor octal
char sequences are valid.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Variable values ending in a <tt>\</tt> are continued on the next line in the
customary UNIX fashion.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Some variables may require a special value format.</p></div>
<h3 id="_example">Example</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt># Core variables
[core]
; Don't trust file modes
filemode = false</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt># Our diff algorithm
[diff]
external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
renames = true</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>[branch "devel"]
remote = origin
merge = refs/heads/devel</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<div class="literalblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt># Proxy settings
[core]
gitProxy="ssh" for "kernel.org"
gitProxy=default-proxy ; for the rest</tt></pre>
</div></div>
<h3 id="_variables">Variables</h3><div style="clear:left"></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>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. You will find a description of non-core
porcelain configuration variables in the respective porcelain documentation.</p></div>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
advice.*
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
When set to <em>true</em>, display the given optional help message.
When set to <em>false</em>, do not display. The configuration variables
are:
</p>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
pushNonFastForward
</dt>
<dd>