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GIT-CONFIG(1)                  Git Manual                  GIT-CONFIG(1)

NAME         top

       git-config - Get and set repository or global options

SYNOPSIS         top

       git config list [<file-option>] [<display-option>] [--includes]
       git config get [<file-option>] [<display-option>] [--includes] [--all] [--regexp=<regexp>] [--value=<value>] [--fixed-value] [--default=<default>] <name>
       git config set [<file-option>] [--type=<type>] [--all] [--value=<value>] [--fixed-value] <name> <value>
       git config unset [<file-option>] [--all] [--value=<value>] [--fixed-value] <name> <value>
       git config rename-section [<file-option>] <old-name> <new-name>
       git config remove-section [<file-option>] <name>
       git config edit [<file-option>]
       git config [<file-option>] --get-colorbool <name> [<stdout-is-tty>]

DESCRIPTION         top

       You can query/set/replace/unset options with this command. The
       name is actually the section and the key separated by a dot, and
       the value will be escaped.

       Multiple lines can be added to an option by using the --append
       option. If you want to update or unset an option which can occur
       on multiple lines, a value-pattern (which is an extended regular
       expression, unless the --fixed-value option is given) needs to be
       given. Only the existing values that match the pattern are
       updated or unset. If you want to handle the lines that do not
       match the pattern, just prepend a single exclamation mark in
       front (see also the section called “EXAMPLES”), but note that
       this only works when the --fixed-value option is not in use.

       The --type=<type> option instructs git config to ensure that
       incoming and outgoing values are canonicalize-able under the
       given <type>. If no --type=<type> is given, no canonicalization
       will be performed. Callers may unset an existing --type specifier
       with --no-type.

       When reading, the values are read from the system, global and
       repository local configuration files by default, and options
       --system, --global, --local, --worktree and --file <filename> can
       be used to tell the command to read from only that location (see
       the section called “FILES”).

       When writing, the new value is written to the repository local
       configuration file by default, and options --system, --global,
       --worktree, --file <filename> can be used to tell the command to
       write to that location (you can say --local but that is the
       default).

       This command will fail with non-zero status upon error. Some exit
       codes are:

       •   The section or key is invalid (ret=1),

       •   no section or name was provided (ret=2),

       •   the config file is invalid (ret=3),

       •   the config file cannot be written (ret=4),

       •   you try to unset an option which does not exist (ret=5),

       •   you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match
           (ret=5), or

       •   you try to use an invalid regexp (ret=6).

       On success, the command returns the exit code 0.

       A list of all available configuration variables can be obtained
       using the git help --config command.

COMMANDS         top

       list
           List all variables set in config file, along with their
           values.

       get
           Emits the value of the specified key. If key is present
           multiple times in the configuration, emits the last value. If
           --all is specified, emits all values associated with key.
           Returns error code 1 if key is not present.

       set
           Set value for one or more config options. By default, this
           command refuses to write multi-valued config options. Passing
           --all will replace all multi-valued config options with the
           new value, whereas --value= will replace all config options
           whose values match the given pattern.

       unset
           Unset value for one or more config options. By default, this
           command refuses to unset multi-valued keys. Passing --all
           will unset all multi-valued config options, whereas --value
           will unset all config options whose values match the given
           pattern.

       rename-section
           Rename the given section to a new name.

       remove-section
           Remove the given section from the configuration file.

       edit
           Opens an editor to modify the specified config file; either
           --system, --global, --local (default), --worktree, or --file
           <config-file>.

OPTIONS         top

       --replace-all
           Default behavior is to replace at most one line. This
           replaces all lines matching the key (and optionally the
           value-pattern).

       --append
           Adds a new line to the option without altering any existing
           values. This is the same as providing --value=^$ in set.

       --comment <message>
           Append a comment at the end of new or modified lines.

               If _<message>_ begins with one or more whitespaces followed
               by "#", it is used as-is.  If it begins with "#", a space is
               prepended before it is used.  Otherwise, a string " # " (a
               space followed by a hash followed by a space) is prepended
               to it.  And the resulting string is placed immediately after
               the value defined for the variable.  The _<message>_ must
               not contain linefeed characters (no multi-line comments are
               permitted).

       --all
           With get, return all values for a multi-valued key.

       ---regexp
           With get, interpret the name as a regular expression. Regular
           expression matching is currently case-sensitive and done
           against a canonicalized version of the key in which section
           and variable names are lowercased, but subsection names are
           not.

       --url=<URL>
           When given a two-part <name> as <section>.<key>, the value
           for <section>.<URL>.<key> whose <URL> part matches the best
           to the given URL is returned (if no such key exists, the
           value for <section>.<key> is used as a fallback). When given
           just the <section> as name, do so for all the keys in the
           section and list them. Returns error code 1 if no value is
           found.

       --global
           For writing options: write to global ~/.gitconfig file rather
           than the repository .git/config, write to
           $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config file if this file exists and the
           ~/.gitconfig file doesn’t.

           For reading options: read only from global ~/.gitconfig and
           from $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config rather than from all
           available files.

           See also the section called “FILES”.

       --system
           For writing options: write to system-wide
           $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than the repository
           .git/config.

           For reading options: read only from system-wide
           $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than from all available files.

           See also the section called “FILES”.

       --local
           For writing options: write to the repository .git/config
           file. This is the default behavior.

           For reading options: read only from the repository
           .git/config rather than from all available files.

           See also the section called “FILES”.

       --worktree
           Similar to --local except that $GIT_DIR/config.worktree is
           read from or written to if extensions.worktreeConfig is
           enabled. If not it’s the same as --local. Note that $GIT_DIR
           is equal to $GIT_COMMON_DIR for the main working tree, but is
           of the form $GIT_DIR/worktrees/<id>/ for other working trees.
           See git-worktree(1) to learn how to enable
           extensions.worktreeConfig.

       -f <config-file>, --file <config-file>
           For writing options: write to the specified file rather than
           the repository .git/config.

           For reading options: read only from the specified file rather
           than from all available files.

           See also the section called “FILES”.

       --blob <blob>
           Similar to --file but use the given blob instead of a file.
           E.g. you can use master:.gitmodules to read values from the
           file .gitmodules in the master branch. See "SPECIFYING
           REVISIONS" section in gitrevisions(7) for a more complete
           list of ways to spell blob names.

       --fixed-value
           When used with the value-pattern argument, treat
           value-pattern as an exact string instead of a regular
           expression. This will restrict the name/value pairs that are
           matched to only those where the value is exactly equal to the
           value-pattern.

       --type <type>
           git config will ensure that any input or output is valid
           under the given type constraint(s), and will canonicalize
           outgoing values in <type>'s canonical form.

           Valid <type>'s include:

           •   bool: canonicalize values as either "true" or "false".

           •   int: canonicalize values as simple decimal numbers. An
               optional suffix of k, m, or g will cause the value to be
               multiplied by 1024, 1048576, or 1073741824 upon input.

           •   bool-or-int: canonicalize according to either bool or
               int, as described above.

           •   path: canonicalize by expanding a leading ~ to the value
               of $HOME and ~user to the home directory for the
               specified user. This specifier has no effect when setting
               the value (but you can use git config section.variable ~/
               from the command line to let your shell do the
               expansion.)

           •   expiry-date: canonicalize by converting from a fixed or
               relative date-string to a timestamp. This specifier has
               no effect when setting the value.

           •   color: When getting a value, canonicalize by converting
               to an ANSI color escape sequence. When setting a value, a
               sanity-check is performed to ensure that the given value
               is canonicalize-able as an ANSI color, but it is written
               as-is.

       --bool, --int, --bool-or-int, --path, --expiry-date
           Historical options for selecting a type specifier. Prefer
           instead --type (see above).

       --no-type
           Un-sets the previously set type specifier (if one was
           previously set). This option requests that git config not
           canonicalize the retrieved variable.  --no-type has no effect
           without --type=<type> or --<type>.

       -z, --null
           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.

       --name-only
           Output only the names of config variables for list or get.

       --show-origin
           Augment the output of all queried config options with the
           origin type (file, standard input, blob, command line) and
           the actual origin (config file path, ref, or blob id if
           applicable).

       --show-scope
           Similar to --show-origin in that it augments the output of
           all queried config options with the scope of that value
           (worktree, local, global, system, command).

       --get-colorbool <name> [<stdout-is-tty>]
           Find the color setting for <name> (e.g.  color.diff) and
           output "true" or "false".  <stdout-is-tty> should be either
           "true" or "false", and is taken into account when
           configuration says "auto". If <stdout-is-tty> is missing,
           then checks the standard output of the command itself, and
           exits with status 0 if color is to be used, or exits with
           status 1 otherwise. When the color setting for name is
           undefined, the command uses color.ui as fallback.

       --[no-]includes
           Respect include.*  directives in config files when looking up
           values. Defaults to off when a specific file is given (e.g.,
           using --file, --global, etc) and on when searching all config
           files.

       --default <value>
           When using get, and the requested variable is not found,
           behave as if <value> were the value assigned to that
           variable.

DEPRECATED MODES         top

       The following modes have been deprecated in favor of subcommands.
       It is recommended to migrate to the new syntax.

       git config <name>
           Replaced by git config get <name>.

       git config <name> <value> [<value-pattern>]
           Replaced by git config set [--value=<pattern>] <name>
           <value>.

       -l, --list
           Replaced by git config list.

       --get <name> [<value-pattern>]
           Replaced by git config get [--value=<pattern>] <name>.

       --get-all <name> [<value-pattern>]
           Replaced by git config get [--value=<pattern>] --all
           --show-names <name>.

       --get-regexp <name-regexp>
           Replaced by git config get --all --show-names --regexp
           <name-regexp>.

       --get-urlmatch <name> <URL>
           Replaced by git config get --all --show-names --url=<URL>
           <name>.

       --get-color <name> [<default>]
           Replaced by git config get --type=color [--default=<default>]
           <name>.

       --add <name> <value>
           Replaced by git config set --append <name> <value>.

       --unset <name> [<value-pattern>]
           Replaced by git config unset [--value=<pattern>] <name>.

       --unset-all <name> [<value-pattern>]
           Replaced by git config unset [--value=<pattern>] --all
           <name>.

       --rename-section <old-name> <new-name>
           Replaced by git config rename-section <old-name> <new-name>.

       --remove-section <name>
           Replaced by git config remove-section <name>.

       -e, --edit
           Replaced by git config edit.

CONFIGURATION         top

       pager.config is only respected when listing configuration, i.e.,
       when using list or get which may return multiple results. The
       default is to use a pager.

FILES         top

       By default, git config will read configuration options from
       multiple files:

       $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig
           System-wide configuration file.

       $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config, ~/.gitconfig
           User-specific configuration files. When the XDG_CONFIG_HOME
           environment variable is not set or empty, $HOME/.config/ is
           used as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME.

           These are also called "global" configuration files. If both
           files exist, both files are read in the order given above.

       $GIT_DIR/config
           Repository specific configuration file.

       $GIT_DIR/config.worktree
           This is optional and is only searched when
           extensions.worktreeConfig is present in $GIT_DIR/config.

       You may also provide additional configuration parameters when
       running any git command by using the -c option. See git(1) for
       details.

       Options will be read from all of these files that are available.
       If the global or the system-wide configuration files are missing
       or unreadable they will be ignored. If the repository
       configuration file is missing or unreadable, git config will exit
       with a non-zero error code. An error message is produced if the
       file is unreadable, but not if it is missing.

       The files are read in the order given above, with last value
       found taking precedence over values read earlier. When multiple
       values are taken then all values of a key from all files will be
       used.

       By default, options are only written to the repository specific
       configuration file. Note that this also affects options like set
       and unset. git config will only ever change one file at a time.

       You can limit which configuration sources are read from or
       written to by specifying the path of a file with the --file
       option, or by specifying a configuration scope with --system,
       --global, --local, or --worktree. For more, see the section
       called “OPTIONS” above.

SCOPES         top

       Each configuration source falls within a configuration scope. The
       scopes are:

       system
           $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig

       global
           $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/config

           ~/.gitconfig

       local
           $GIT_DIR/config

       worktree
           $GIT_DIR/config.worktree

       command
           GIT_CONFIG_{COUNT,KEY,VALUE} environment variables (see the
           section called “ENVIRONMENT” below)

           the -c option

       With the exception of command, each scope corresponds to a
       command line option: --system, --global, --local, --worktree.

       When reading options, specifying a scope will only read options
       from the files within that scope. When writing options,
       specifying a scope will write to the files within that scope
       (instead of the repository specific configuration file). See the
       section called “OPTIONS” above for a complete description.

       Most configuration options are respected regardless of the scope
       it is defined in, but some options are only respected in certain
       scopes. See the respective option’s documentation for the full
       details.

   Protected configuration
       Protected configuration refers to the system, global, and command
       scopes. For security reasons, certain options are only respected
       when they are specified in protected configuration, and ignored
       otherwise.

       Git treats these scopes as if they are controlled by the user or
       a trusted administrator. This is because an attacker who controls
       these scopes can do substantial harm without using Git, so it is
       assumed that the user’s environment protects these scopes against
       attackers.

ENVIRONMENT         top

       GIT_CONFIG_GLOBAL, GIT_CONFIG_SYSTEM
           Take the configuration from the given files instead from
           global or system-level configuration. See git(1) for details.

       GIT_CONFIG_NOSYSTEM
           Whether to skip reading settings from the system-wide
           $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig file. See git(1) for details.

       See also the section called “FILES”.

       GIT_CONFIG_COUNT, GIT_CONFIG_KEY_<n>, GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_<n>
           If GIT_CONFIG_COUNT is set to a positive number, all
           environment pairs GIT_CONFIG_KEY_<n> and GIT_CONFIG_VALUE_<n>
           up to that number will be added to the process’s runtime
           configuration. The config pairs are zero-indexed. Any missing
           key or value is treated as an error. An empty
           GIT_CONFIG_COUNT is treated the same as GIT_CONFIG_COUNT=0,
           namely no pairs are processed. These environment variables
           will override values in configuration files, but will be
           overridden by any explicit options passed via git -c.

           This is useful for cases where you want to spawn multiple git
           commands with a common configuration but cannot depend on a
           configuration file, for example when writing scripts.

       GIT_CONFIG
           If no --file option is provided to git config, use the file
           given by GIT_CONFIG as if it were provided via --file. This
           variable has no effect on other Git commands, and is mostly
           for historical compatibility; there is generally no reason to
           use it instead of the --file option.

EXAMPLES         top

       Given a .git/config like this:

           #
           # This is the config file, and
           # a '#' or ';' character indicates
           # a comment
           #

           ; core variables
           [core]
                   ; Don't trust file modes
                   filemode = false

           ; Our diff algorithm
           [diff]
                   external = /usr/local/bin/diff-wrapper
                   renames = true

           ; Proxy settings
           [core]
                   gitproxy=proxy-command for kernel.org
                   gitproxy=default-proxy ; for all the rest

           ; HTTP
           [http]
                   sslVerify
           [http "https://weak.example.com"]
                   sslVerify = false
                   cookieFile = /tmp/cookie.txt

       you can set the filemode to true with

           % git config set core.filemode true

       The hypothetical proxy command entries actually have a postfix to
       discern what URL they apply to. Here is how to change the entry
       for kernel.org to "ssh".

           % git config set --value='for kernel.org$' core.gitproxy '"ssh" for kernel.org'

       This makes sure that only the key/value pair for kernel.org is
       replaced.

       To delete the entry for renames, do

           % git config unset diff.renames

       If you want to delete an entry for a multivar (like core.gitproxy
       above), you have to provide a regex matching the value of exactly
       one line.

       To query the value for a given key, do

           % git config get core.filemode

       or, to query a multivar:

           % git config get --value="for kernel.org$" core.gitproxy

       If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do:

           % git config get --all --show-names core.gitproxy

       If you like to live dangerously, you can replace all
       core.gitproxy by a new one with

           % git config set --all core.gitproxy ssh

       However, if you really only want to replace the line for the
       default proxy, i.e. the one without a "for ..." postfix, do
       something like this:

           % git config set --value='! for ' core.gitproxy ssh

       To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have
       to

           % git config set --value='[!]' section.key value

       To add a new proxy, without altering any of the existing ones,
       use

           % git config set --append core.gitproxy '"proxy-command" for example.com'

       An example to use customized color from the configuration in your
       script:

           #!/bin/sh
           WS=$(git config get --type=color --default="blue reverse" color.diff.whitespace)
           RESET=$(git config get --type=color --default="reset" "")
           echo "${WS}your whitespace color or blue reverse${RESET}"

       For URLs in https://weak.example.com , http.sslVerify is set to
       false, while it is set to true for all others:

           % git config get --type=bool --url=https://good.example.com http.sslverify
           true
           % git config get --type=bool --url=https://weak.example.com http.sslverify
           false
           % git config get --url=https://weak.example.com http
           http.cookieFile /tmp/cookie.txt
           http.sslverify false

CONFIGURATION FILE         top

       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 porcelain commands. 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. Whitespace
       characters, which in this context are the space character (SP)
       and the horizontal tabulation (HT), 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.

       Whitespace characters surrounding name, = and value are
       discarded. Internal whitespace characters within value are
       retained verbatim. Comments starting with either # or ; and
       extending to the end of line are discarded. A line that defines a
       value can be continued to the next line by ending it with a
       backslash (\); the backslash and the end-of-line characters are
       discarded.

       If value needs to contain leading or trailing whitespace
       characters, it must be enclosed in double quotation marks (").
       Inside double quotation marks, 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 conditionally include a config file from another by
       setting an 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.

       hasconfig:remote.*.url:
           The data that follows this keyword is taken to be a pattern
           with standard globbing wildcards and two additional ones, **/
           and /**, that can match multiple components. The first time
           this keyword is seen, the rest of the config files will be
           scanned for remote URLs (without applying any values). If
           there exists at least one remote URL that matches this
           pattern, the include condition is met.

           Files included by this option (directly or indirectly) are
           not allowed to contain remote URLs.

           Note that unlike other includeIf conditions, resolving this
           condition relies on information that is not yet known at the
           point of reading the condition. A typical use case is this
           option being present as a system-level or global-level
           config, and the remote URL being in a local-level config;
           hence the need to scan ahead when resolving this condition.
           In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg problem in which
           potentially-included files can affect whether such files are
           potentially included, Git breaks the cycle by prohibiting
           these files from affecting the resolution of these conditions
           (thus, prohibiting them from declaring remote URLs).

           As for the naming of this keyword, it is for forwards
           compatibility with a naming scheme that supports more
           variable-based include conditions, but currently Git only
           supports the exact keyword described above.

       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

           ; include only if a remote with the given URL exists (note
           ; that such a URL may be provided later in a file or in a
           ; file read after this file is read, as seen in this example)
           [includeIf "hasconfig:remote.*.url:https://example.com/**"]
                   path = foo.inc
           [remote "origin"]
                   url = https://example.com/git

   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, white and default. The first
           color given is the foreground; the second is the background.
           All the basic colors except normal and default have a bright
           variant that can be specified by prefixing the color with
           bright, like brightred.

           The color normal makes no change to the color. It is the same
           as an empty string, but can be used as the foreground color
           when specifying a background color alone (for example,
           "normal red").

           The color default explicitly resets the color to the terminal
           default, for example to specify a cleared background.
           Although it varies between terminals, this is usually not the
           same as setting to "white black".

           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, or 12-bit RGB
           values like #f1b, which is equivalent to the 24-bit color
           #ff11bb.

           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).

           The pseudo-attribute reset resets all colors and attributes
           before applying the specified coloring. For example, reset
           green will result in a green foreground and default
           background without any active attributes.

           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
           substituted 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.

       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
           Unused configuration variable. Used in Git versions v2.25.0
           to v2.36.0 to enable the built-in version of git-add(1)'s
           interactive mode, which then became the default in Git
           versions v2.37.0 to v2.39.0.

       advice.*
           These variables control various optional help messages
           designed to aid new users. When left unconfigured, Git will
           give the message alongside instructions on how to squelch it.
           You can tell Git that you do not need the help message by
           setting these to false:

           addEmbeddedRepo
               Shown when the user accidentally adds one git repo inside
               of another.

           addEmptyPathspec
               Shown when the user runs git add without providing the
               pathspec parameter.

           addIgnoredFile
               Shown when the user attempts to add an ignored file to
               the index.

           amWorkDir
               Shown when git-am(1) fails to apply a patch file, to tell
               the user the location of the file.

           ambiguousFetchRefspec
               Shown when a fetch refspec for multiple remotes maps to
               the same remote-tracking branch namespace and causes
               branch tracking set-up to fail.

           checkoutAmbiguousRemoteBranchName
               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 be used by default in some
               situations where this advice would be printed.

           commitBeforeMerge
               Shown when git-merge(1) refuses to merge to avoid
               overwriting local changes.

           detachedHead
               Shown when the user uses git-switch(1) or git-checkout(1)
               to move to the detached HEAD state, to tell the user how
               to create a local branch after the fact.

           diverging
               Shown when a fast-forward is not possible.

           fetchShowForcedUpdates
               Shown when git-fetch(1) takes a long time to calculate
               forced updates after ref updates, or to warn that the
               check is disabled.

           forceDeleteBranch
               Shown when the user tries to delete a not fully merged
               branch without the force option set.

           ignoredHook
               Shown when a hook is ignored because the hook is not set
               as executable.

           implicitIdentity
               Shown when the user’s information is guessed from the
               system username and domain name, to tell the user how to
               set their identity configuration.

           mergeConflict
               Shown when various commands stop because of conflicts.

           nestedTag
               Shown when a user attempts to recursively tag a tag
               object.

           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.

           pushNonFFCurrent
               Shown when git-push(1) fails due to a non-fast-forward
               update to the current branch.

           pushNonFFMatching
               Shown when the user ran git-push(1) and pushed "matching
               refs" explicitly (i.e. used :, or specified a refspec
               that isn’t the current branch) and it resulted in a
               non-fast-forward error.

           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.

           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.

           pushUpdateRejected
               Set this variable to false if you want to disable
               pushNonFFCurrent, pushNonFFMatching, pushAlreadyExists,
               pushFetchFirst, pushNeedsForce, and pushRefNeedsUpdate
               simultaneously.

           refSyntax
               Shown when the user provides an illegal ref name, to tell
               the user about the ref syntax documentation.

           resetNoRefresh
               Shown when git-reset(1) takes more than 2 seconds to
               refresh the index after reset, to tell the user that they
               can use the --no-refresh option.

           resolveConflict
               Shown by various commands when conflicts prevent the
               operation from being performed.

           rmHints
               Shown on failure in the output of git-rm(1), to give
               directions on how to proceed from the current state.

           sequencerInUse
               Shown when a sequencer command is already in progress.

           skippedCherryPicks
               Shown when git-rebase(1) skips a commit that has already
               been cherry-picked onto the upstream branch.

           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 branches.

           statusUoption
               Shown when git-status(1) takes more than 2 seconds to
               enumerate untracked files, to tell the user that they can
               use the -u option.

           submoduleAlternateErrorStrategyDie
               Shown when a submodule.alternateErrorStrategy option
               configured to "die" causes a fatal error.

           submoduleMergeConflict
               Advice shown when a non-trivial submodule merge conflict
               is encountered.

           submodulesNotUpdated
               Shown when a user runs a submodule command that fails
               because git submodule update --init was not run.

           suggestDetachingHead
               Shown when git-switch(1) refuses to detach HEAD without
               the explicit --detach option.

           updateSparsePath
               Shown when either git-add(1) or git-rm(1) is asked to
               update index entries outside the current sparse checkout.

           waitingForEditor
               Shown when Git is waiting for editor input. Relevant when
               e.g. the editor is not launched inside the terminal.

           worktreeAddOrphan
               Shown when the user tries to create a worktree from an
               invalid reference, to tell the user how to create a new
               unborn branch instead.

       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 are 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:

           •   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).

           •   Shell command aliases always receive any extra arguments
               provided to the Git command-line as positional arguments.

               •   Care should be taken if your shell alias is a
                   "one-liner" script with multiple commands (e.g. in a
                   pipeline), references multiple arguments, or is
                   otherwise not able to handle positional arguments
                   added at the end. For example: alias.cmd = "!echo $1
                   | grep $2" called as git cmd 1 2 will be executed as
                   echo $1 | grep $2 1 2, which is not what you want.

               •   A convenient way to deal with this is to write your
                   script operations in an inline function that is then
                   called with any arguments from the command-line. For
                   example `alias.cmd = "!c() { echo $1 | grep $2 ; };
                   c" will correctly execute the prior example.

               •   Setting GIT_TRACE=1 can help you debug the command
                   being run for your alias.

       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, it tells
           git apply to respect all whitespace differences. See
           git-apply(1).

       apply.whitespace
           Tells git apply how to handle whitespace, in the same way as
           the --whitespace option. See git-apply(1).

       attr.tree
           A reference to a tree in the repository from which to read
           attributes, instead of the .gitattributes file in the working
           tree. In a bare repository, this defaults to
           HEAD:.gitattributes. If the value does not resolve to a valid
           tree object, an empty tree is used instead. When the
           GIT_ATTR_SOURCE environment variable or --attr-source command
           line option are used, this configuration variable has no
           effect.

       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; inherit — if the
           starting point has a tracking configuration, it is copied to
           the new branch; simple — automatic setup is done only when
           the starting point is a remote-tracking branch and the new
           branch has the same name as the remote 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 or 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 and there is more
           than one remote defined in the repository, 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 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 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
           to 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)).

       bundle.*
           The bundle.*  keys may appear in a bundle list file found via
           the git clone --bundle-uri option. These keys currently have
           no effect if placed in a repository config file, though this
           will change in the future. See the bundle URI design
           document[1] for more details.

       bundle.version
           This integer value advertises the version of the bundle list
           format used by the bundle list. Currently, the only accepted
           value is 1.

       bundle.mode
           This string value should be either all or any. This value
           describes whether all of the advertised bundles are required
           to unbundle a complete understanding of the bundled
           information (all) or if any one of the listed bundle URIs is
           sufficient (any).

       bundle.heuristic
           If this string-valued key exists, then the bundle list is
           designed to work well with incremental git fetch commands.
           The heuristic signals that there are additional keys
           available for each bundle that help determine which subset of
           bundles the client should download. The only value currently
           understood is creationToken.

       bundle.<id>.*
           The bundle.<id>.*  keys are used to describe a single item in
           the bundle list, grouped under <id> for identification
           purposes.

       bundle.<id>.uri
           This string value defines the URI by which Git can reach the
           contents of this <id>. This URI may be a bundle file or
           another bundle list.

       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 you 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 refuse to delete files unless -f
           is given. Defaults to true.

       clone.defaultRemoteName
           The name of the remote to create when cloning a repository.
           Defaults to origin. It can be overridden by passing the
           --origin command-line option to git-clone(1).

       clone.rejectShallow
           Reject cloning a repository if it is a shallow one; this can
           be overridden by passing the --reject-shallow option on the
           command line. See git-clone(1).

       clone.filterSubmodules
           If a partial clone filter is provided (see --filter in
           git-rev-list(1)) and --recurse-submodules is used, also apply
           the filter to submodules.

       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
           Specify the line annotation color for git blame
           --color-by-age depending upon the 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 with the specified 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 specified color to colorize line annotations for git
           blame --color-lines, if they come from the same commit as the
           preceding line. 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. Also, used to customize
               the following git-log(1) subcommands: --grep, --author,
               and --committer.

           selected
               non-matching text in selected lines. Also, used to
               customize the following git-log(1) subcommands: --grep,
               --author and --committer.

           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 listing 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 listings 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 the 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 verbosity 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.

       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.

       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 to true, enable the built-in file system monitor
           daemon for this working directory (git-fsmonitor--daemon(1)).

           Like hook-based file system monitors, the built-in file
           system monitor can speed up Git commands that need to refresh
           the Git index (e.g.  git status) in a working directory with
           many files. The built-in monitor eliminates the need to
           install and maintain an external third-party tool.

           The built-in file system monitor is currently available only
           on a limited set of supported platforms. Currently, this
           includes Windows and MacOS.

               Otherwise, this variable contains the pathname of the "fsmonitor"
               hook command.

           This hook command is used to identify all files that may have
           changed since the requested date/time. This information is
           used to speed up git by avoiding unnecessary scanning of
           files that have not changed.

           See the "fsmonitor-watchman" section of githooks(5).

           Note that if you concurrently use multiple versions of Git,
           such as one version on the command line and another version
           in an IDE tool, that the definition of core.fsmonitor was
           extended to allow boolean values in addition to hook
           pathnames. Git versions 2.35.1 and prior will not understand
           the boolean values and will consider the "true" or "false"
           values as hook pathnames to be invoked. Git versions 2.26
           thru 2.35.1 default to hook protocol V2 and will fall back to
           no fsmonitor (full scan). Git versions prior to 2.26 default
           to hook protocol V1 and will silently assume there were no
           changes to report (no scan), so status commands may report
           incomplete results. For this reason, it is best to upgrade
           all of your Git versions before using the built-in file
           system monitor.

       core.fsmonitorHookVersion
           Sets the protocol version to be used when invoking the
           "fsmonitor" hook.

           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
           The size of files considered "big", which as discussed below
           changes the behavior of numerous git commands, as well as how
           such files are stored within the repository. The default is
           512 MiB. Common unit suffixes of k, m, or g are supported.

           Files above the configured limit will be:

           •   Stored deflated in packfiles, without attempting delta
               compression.

               The default limit is primarily set with this use-case in
               mind. With it, most projects will have their source code
               and other text files delta compressed, but not larger
               binary media files.

               Storing large files without delta compression avoids
               excessive memory usage, at the slight expense of
               increased disk usage.

           •   Will be treated as if they were labeled "binary" (see
               gitattributes(5)). e.g.  git-log(1) and git-diff(1) will
               not compute diffs for files above this limit.

           •   Will generally be streamed when written, which avoids
               excessive memory usage, at the cost of some fixed
               overhead. Commands that make use of this include
               git-archive(1), git-fast-import(1), git-index-pack(1),
               git-unpack-objects(1) and git-fsck(1).

       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, core.commentString
           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.

           Note that these two variables are aliases of each other, and
           in modern versions of Git you are free to use a string (e.g.,
           // or ⁑⁕⁑) with commentChar. Versions of Git prior to v2.45.0
           will ignore commentString but will reject a value of
           commentChar that consists of more than a single ASCII byte.
           If you plan to use your config with older and newer versions
           of Git, you may want to specify both:

               [core]
               # single character for older versions
               commentChar = "#"
               # string for newer versions (which will override commentChar
               # because it comes later in the file)
               commentString = "//"

       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.fsync
           A comma-separated list of components of the repository that
           should be hardened via the core.fsyncMethod when created or
           modified. You can disable hardening of any component by
           prefixing it with a -. Items that are not hardened may be
           lost in the event of an unclean system shutdown. Unless you
           have special requirements, it is recommended that you leave
           this option empty or pick one of committed, added, or all.

           When this configuration is encountered, the set of components
           starts with the platform default value, disabled components
           are removed, and additional components are added.  none
           resets the state so that the platform default is ignored.

           The empty string resets the fsync configuration to the
           platform default. The default on most platforms is equivalent
           to core.fsync=committed,-loose-object, which has good
           performance, but risks losing recent work in the event of an
           unclean system shutdown.

           •   none clears the set of fsynced components.

           •   loose-object hardens objects added to the repo in
               loose-object form.

           •   pack hardens objects added to the repo in packfile form.

           •   pack-metadata hardens packfile bitmaps and indexes.

           •   commit-graph hardens the commit-graph file.

           •   index hardens the index when it is modified.

           •   objects is an aggregate option that is equivalent to
               loose-object,pack.

           •   reference hardens references modified in the repo.

           •   derived-metadata is an aggregate option that is
               equivalent to pack-metadata,commit-graph.

           •   committed is an aggregate option that is currently
               equivalent to objects. This mode sacrifices some
               performance to ensure that work that is committed to the
               repository with git commit or similar commands is
               hardened.

           •   added is an aggregate option that is currently equivalent
               to committed,index. This mode sacrifices additional
               performance to ensure that the results of commands like
               git add and similar operations are hardened.

           •   all is an aggregate option that syncs all individual
               components above.

       core.fsyncMethod
           A value indicating the strategy Git will use to harden
           repository data using fsync and related primitives.

           •   fsync uses the fsync() system call or platform
               equivalents.

           •   writeout-only issues pagecache writeback requests, but
               depending on the filesystem and storage hardware, data
               added to the repository may not be durable in the event
               of a system crash. This is the default mode on macOS.

           •   batch enables a mode that uses writeout-only flushes to
               stage multiple updates in the disk writeback cache and
               then does a single full fsync of a dummy file to trigger
               the disk cache flush at the end of the operation.

               Currently batch mode only applies to loose-object files.
               Other repository data is made durable as if fsync was
               specified. This mode is expected to be as safe as fsync
               on macOS for repos stored on HFS+ or APFS filesystems and
               on Windows for repos stored on NTFS or ReFS filesystems.

       core.fsyncObjectFiles
           This boolean will enable fsync() when writing object files.
           This setting is deprecated. Use core.fsync instead.

           This setting affects data added to the Git repository in
           loose-object form. When set to true, Git will issue an fsync
           or similar system call to flush caches so that loose-objects
           remain consistent in the face of a unclean system shutdown.

       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,
           this mode provides significant performance advantages. The
           "non-cone mode" can be requested to allow specifying more
           flexible patterns by setting this variable to false. 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.

       core.maxTreeDepth
           The maximum depth Git is willing to recurse while traversing
           a tree (e.g., "a/b/cde/f" has a depth of 4). This is a
           fail-safe to allow Git to abort cleanly, and should not
           generally need to be adjusted. The default is 4096.

       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. A value of
           0 means not to retry at all; -1 means to try indefinitely.
           Default is 1000 (i.e., retry for 1s).

       diff.autoRefreshIndex
           When using git diff to compare with work tree files, do not
           consider stat-only changes 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.statNameWidth
           Limit the width of the filename part in --stat output. If
           set, applies to all commands generating --stat output except
           format-patch.

       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.srcPrefix
           If set, git diff uses this source prefix. Defaults to "a/".

       diff.dstPrefix
           If set, git diff uses this destination prefix. Defaults to
           "b/".

       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.

           araxis
               Use Araxis Merge (requires a graphical session)

           bc
               Use Beyond Compare (requires a graphical session)

           bc3
               Use Beyond Compare (requires a graphical session)

           bc4
               Use Beyond Compare (requires a graphical session)

           codecompare
               Use Code Compare (requires a graphical session)

           deltawalker
               Use DeltaWalker (requires a graphical session)

           diffmerge
               Use DiffMerge (requires a graphical session)

           diffuse
               Use Diffuse (requires a graphical session)

           ecmerge
               Use ECMerge (requires a graphical session)

           emerge
               Use Emacs' Emerge

           examdiff
               Use ExamDiff Pro (requires a graphical session)

           guiffy
               Use Guiffy’s Diff Tool (requires a graphical session)

           gvimdiff
               Use gVim (requires a graphical session)

           kdiff3
               Use KDiff3 (requires a graphical session)

           kompare
               Use Kompare (requires a graphical session)

           meld
               Use Meld (requires a graphical session)

           nvimdiff
               Use Neovim

           opendiff
               Use FileMerge (requires a graphical session)

           p4merge
               Use HelixCore P4Merge (requires a graphical session)

           smerge
               Use Sublime Merge (requires a graphical session)

           tkdiff
               Use TkDiff (requires a graphical session)

           vimdiff
               Use Vim

           winmerge
               Use WinMerge (requires a graphical session)

           xxdiff
               Use xxdiff (requires a graphical session)

       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).

       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.

       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.

           See the --tool=<tool> option in git-difftool(1) for more
           details.

       difftool.<tool>.path
           Override the path for the given tool. This is useful in case
           your tool is not in the PATH.

       difftool.trustExitCode
           Exit difftool if the invoked diff tool returns a non-zero
           exit status.

           See the --trust-exit-code option in git-difftool(1) for more
           details.

       difftool.prompt
           Prompt before each invocation of the diff tool.

       difftool.guiDefault
           Set true to use the diff.guitool by default (equivalent to
           specifying the --gui argument), or auto to select
           diff.guitool or diff.tool depending on the presence of a
           DISPLAY environment variable value. The default is false,
           where the --gui argument must be provided explicitly for the
           diff.guitool to be used.

       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.

       extensions.compatObjectFormat
           Specify a compatitbility hash algorithm to use. The
           acceptable values are sha1 and sha256. The value specified
           must be different from the value of extensions.objectFormat.
           This allows client level interoperability between git
           repositories whose objectFormat matches this
           compatObjectFormat. In particular when fully implemented the
           pushes and pulls from a repository in whose objectFormat
           matches compatObjectFormat. As well as being able to use oids
           encoded in compatObjectFormat in addition to oids encoded
           with objectFormat to locally specify objects.

       extensions.refStorage
           Specify the ref storage format to use. The acceptable values
           are:

           •   files for loose files with packed-refs. This is the
               default.

           •   reftable for the reftable format. This format is
               experimental and its internals are subject to change.

               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.

       extensions.worktreeConfig
           If enabled, then worktrees will load config settings from the
           $GIT_DIR/config.worktree file in addition to the
           $GIT_COMMON_DIR/config file. Note that $GIT_COMMON_DIR and
           $GIT_DIR are the same for the main working tree, while other
           working trees have $GIT_DIR equal to
           $GIT_COMMON_DIR/worktrees/<id>/. The settings in the
           config.worktree file will override settings from any other
           config files.

           When enabling extensions.worktreeConfig, you must be careful
           to move certain values from the common config file to the
           main working tree’s config.worktree file, if present:

           •   core.worktree must be moved from $GIT_COMMON_DIR/config
               to $GIT_COMMON_DIR/config.worktree.

           •   If core.bare is true, then it must be moved from
               $GIT_COMMON_DIR/config to
               $GIT_COMMON_DIR/config.worktree.

               It may also be beneficial to adjust the locations of
               core.sparseCheckout and core.sparseCheckoutCone depending
               on your desire for customizable sparse-checkout settings
               for each worktree. By default, the git sparse-checkout
               builtin enables extensions.worktreeConfig, assigns these
               config values on a per-worktree basis, and uses the
               $GIT_DIR/info/sparse-checkout file to specify the
               sparsity for each worktree independently. See
               git-sparse-checkout(1) for more details.

               For historical reasons, extensions.worktreeConfig is
               respected regardless of the core.repositoryFormatVersion
               setting.

       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.

           •   pack.useBitmapBoundaryTraversal=true may improve bitmap
               traversal times by walking fewer objects.

           •   pack.allowPackReuse=multi may improve the time it takes
               to create a pack by reusing objects from multiple packs
               instead of just one.

       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.skipHash=true speeds up index writes by not
               computing a trailing checksum. Note that this will cause
               Git versions earlier than 2.13.0 to refuse to parse the
               index and Git versions earlier than 2.40.0 will report a
               corrupted index during git fsck.

           •   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.all
           If true, fetch will attempt to update all available remotes.
           This behavior can be overridden by passing --no-all or by
           explicitly specifying one or more remote(s) to fetch from.
           Defaults to false.

       fetch.output
           Control how ref update status is printed. Valid values are
           full and compact. Default value is full. See the OUTPUT
           section in git-fetch(1) for details.

       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 "consecutive" to
           use an algorithm that walks over consecutive commits checking
           each one. 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. Set to "default" to override settings made
           previously and use the default behaviour. The default is
           normally "consecutive", but if feature.experimental is true,
           then the default is "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.

       fetch.bundleURI
           This value stores a URI for downloading Git object data from
           a bundle URI before performing an incremental fetch from the
           origin Git server. This is similar to how the --bundle-uri
           option behaves in git-clone(1).  git clone --bundle-uri will
           set the fetch.bundleURI value if the supplied bundle URI
           contains a bundle list that is organized for incremental
           fetches.

           If you modify this value and your repository has a
           fetch.bundleCreationToken value, then remove that
           fetch.bundleCreationToken value before fetching from the new
           bundle URI.

       fetch.bundleCreationToken
           When using fetch.bundleURI to fetch incrementally from a
           bundle list that uses the "creationToken" heuristic, this
           config value stores the maximum creationToken value of the
           downloaded bundles. This value is used to prevent downloading
           bundles in the future if the advertised creationToken is not
           strictly larger than this value.

           The creation token values are chosen by the provider serving
           the specific bundle URI. If you modify the URI at
           fetch.bundleURI, then be sure to remove the value for the
           fetch.bundleCreationToken value before fetching.

       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.

       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). To countermand an earlier value, set it
           to an empty string.

       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.forceInBodyFrom
           Provides the default value for the --[no-]force-in-body-from
           option to format-patch. 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 refs/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.

       format.mboxrd
           A boolean value which enables the robust "mboxrd" format when
           --stdout is in use to escape "^>+From " lines.

       format.noprefix
           If set, do not show any source or destination prefix in
           patches. This is equivalent to the diff.noprefix option used
           by git diff (but which is not respected by format-patch).
           Note that by setting this, the receiver of any patches you
           generate will have to apply them using the -p0 option.

       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.fsck.*. 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 must be 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.

           See the Fsck Messages section of git-fsck(1) for supported
           values of <msg-id>.

       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 are 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 must be 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.

       fsmonitor.allowRemote
           By default, the fsmonitor daemon refuses to work with
           network-mounted repositories. Setting fsmonitor.allowRemote
           to true overrides this behavior. Only respected when
           core.fsmonitor is set to true.

       fsmonitor.socketDir
           This Mac OS-specific option, if set, specifies the directory
           in which to create the Unix domain socket used for
           communication between the fsmonitor daemon and various Git
           commands. The directory must reside on a native Mac OS
           filesystem. Only respected when core.fsmonitor is set to
           true.

       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 also 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 the
           background if the system supports it. Default is true.

       gc.bigPackThreshold
           If non-zero, all non-cruft packs larger than this limit are
           kept when git gc is run. This is very similar to
           --keep-largest-pack except that all non-cruft 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.cruftPacks
           Store unreachable objects in a cruft pack (see git-repack(1))
           instead of as loose objects. The default is true.

       gc.maxCruftSize
           Limit the size of new cruft packs when repacking. When
           specified in addition to --max-cruft-size, the command line
           option takes priority. See the --max-cruft-size option of
           git-repack(1).

       gc.pruneExpire
           When git gc is run, it will call prune --expire 2.weeks.ago
           (and repack --cruft --cruft-expiration 2.weeks.ago if using
           cruft packs via gc.cruftPacks or --cruft). 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.recentObjectsHook
           When considering whether or not to remove an object (either
           when generating a cruft pack or storing unreachable objects
           as loose), use the shell to execute the specified command(s).
           Interpret their output as object IDs which Git will consider
           as "recent", regardless of their age. By treating their
           mtimes as "now", any objects (and their descendants)
           mentioned in the output will be kept regardless of their true
           age.

           Output must contain exactly one hex object ID per line, and
           nothing else. Objects which cannot be found in the repository
           are ignored. Multiple hooks are supported, but all must exit
           successfully, else the operation (either generating a cruft
           pack or unpacking unreachable objects) will be halted.

       gc.repackFilter
           When repacking, use the specified filter to move certain
           objects into a separate packfile. See the
           --filter=<filter-spec> option of git-repack(1).

       gc.repackFilterTo
           When repacking and using a filter, see gc.repackFilter, the
           specified location will be used to create the packfile
           containing the filtered out objects.  WARNING: The specified
           location should be accessible, using for example the Git
           alternates mechanism, otherwise the repo could be considered
           corrupt by Git as it migh not be able to access the objects
           in that packfile. See the --filter-to=<dir> option of
           git-repack(1) and the objects/info/alternates section of
           gitrepository-layout(5).

       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.

       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. 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". Other possible values are
           "x509", "ssh".

           See gitformat-signature(5) for the signature format, which
           differs based on the selected gpg.format.

       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" and
           gpg.ssh.program is "ssh-keygen".

       gpg.minTrustLevel
           Specifies a minimum trust level for signature verification.
           If this option is unset, then signature verification for
           merge operations requires 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:

           •   undefinednevermarginalfullyultimate

       gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand
           This command will be run when user.signingkey is not set and
           a ssh signature is requested. On successful exit a valid ssh
           public key prefixed with key:: is expected in the first line
           of its output. This allows for a script doing a dynamic
           lookup of the correct public key when it is impractical to
           statically configure user.signingKey. For example when keys
           or SSH Certificates are rotated frequently or selection of
           the right key depends on external factors unknown to git.

       gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile
           A file containing ssh public keys which you are willing to
           trust. The file consists of one or more lines of principals
           followed by an ssh public key. e.g.:
           user1@example.com,user2@example.com ssh-rsa AAAAX1...  See
           ssh-keygen(1) "ALLOWED SIGNERS" for details. The principal is
           only used to identify the key and is available when verifying
           a signature.

           SSH has no concept of trust levels like gpg does. To be able
           to differentiate between valid signatures and trusted
           signatures the trust level of a signature verification is set
           to fully when the public key is present in the
           allowedSignersFile. Otherwise the trust level is undefined
           and git verify-commit/tag will fail.

           This file can be set to a location outside of the repository
           and every developer maintains their own trust store. A
           central repository server could generate this file
           automatically from ssh keys with push access to verify the
           code against. In a corporate setting this file is probably
           generated at a global location from automation that already
           handles developer ssh keys.

           A repository that only allows signed commits can store the
           file in the repository itself using a path relative to the
           top-level of the working tree. This way only committers with
           an already valid key can add or change keys in the keyring.

           Since OpensSSH 8.8 this file allows specifying a key lifetime
           using valid-after & valid-before options. Git will mark
           signatures as valid if the signing key was valid at the time
           of the signature’s creation. This allows users to change a
           signing key without invalidating all previously made
           signatures.

           Using a SSH CA key with the cert-authority option (see
           ssh-keygen(1) "CERTIFICATES") is also valid.

       gpg.ssh.revocationFile
           Either a SSH KRL or a list of revoked public keys (without
           the principal prefix). See ssh-keygen(1) for details. If a
           public key is found in this file then it will always be
           treated as having trust level "never" and signatures will
           show as invalid.

       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 use the
           grep.extendedRegexp option to choose between basic and
           extended.

       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. If unset (or set to 0),
           Git will use as many threads as the number of logical cores
           available.

       grep.fullName
           If set to true, enable --full-name option by default.

       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.

       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 character 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 a 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 try to suggest the
           correct command or even run the suggestion automatically.
           Possible config values are:

           •   0 (default): show the suggested command.

           •   positive number: run the suggested command after
               specified deciseconds (0.1 sec).

           •   "immediate": run the suggested command immediately.

           •   "prompt": show the suggestion and prompt for confirmation
               to run the command.

           •   "never": don’t run or show any suggested command.

       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.curloptResolve
           Hostname resolution information that will be used first by
           libcurl when sending HTTP requests. This information should
           be in one of the following formats:

           •   [+]HOST:PORT:ADDRESS[,ADDRESS]

           •   -HOST:PORT

           The first format redirects all requests to the given
           HOST:PORT to the provided ADDRESS(s). The second format
           clears all previous config values for that HOST:PORT
           combination. To allow easy overriding of all the settings
           inherited from the system config, an empty value will reset
           all resolution information to the empty list.

       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, in bytes per second, 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 be 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 Git client 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 in 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 set up 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 the authentication method for authenticating with the
           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.

       include.path, includeIf.<condition>.path
           Special variables to include other configuration files. See
           the "CONFIGURATION FILE" section in the main git-config(1)
           documentation, specifically the "Includes" and "Conditional
           Includes" subsections.

       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 CPUs 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.

       index.skipHash
           When enabled, do not compute the trailing hash for the index
           file. This accelerates Git commands that manipulate the
           index, such as git add, git commit, or git status. Instead of
           storing the checksum, write a trailing set of bytes with
           value zero, indicating that the computation was skipped.

           If you enable index.skipHash, then Git clients older than
           2.13.0 will refuse to parse the index and Git clients older
           than 2.40.0 will report an error during git fsck.

       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).

       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.

           If the format is set to "auto:foo" and the pager is in use,
           format "foo" will be used for the date format. Otherwise,
           "default" will be used.

       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.initialDecorationSet
           By default, git log only shows decorations for certain known
           ref namespaces. If all is specified, then show all refs as
           decorations.

       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 diff format to be used when --diff-merges=on is
           specified, 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 gitprotocol-v2(5)) 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 feature 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 tasks 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 an 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. The "merge" style tends to produce smaller conflict
           regions than diff3, both because of the exclusion of the
           original text, and because when a subset of lines match on
           the two sides, they are just pulled out of the conflict
           region. Another alternate style, "zdiff3", is similar to
           diff3 but removes matching lines on the two sides from the
           conflict region when those matching lines appear near either
           the beginning or end of a conflict region.

       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
               Use Araxis Merge (requires a graphical session)

           bc
               Use Beyond Compare (requires a graphical session)

           bc3
               Use Beyond Compare (requires a graphical session)

           bc4
               Use Beyond Compare (requires a graphical session)

           codecompare
               Use Code Compare (requires a graphical session)

           deltawalker
               Use DeltaWalker (requires a graphical session)

           diffmerge
               Use DiffMerge (requires a graphical session)

           diffuse
               Use Diffuse (requires a graphical session)

           ecmerge
               Use ECMerge (requires a graphical session)

           emerge
               Use Emacs' Emerge

           examdiff
               Use ExamDiff Pro (requires a graphical session)

           guiffy
               Use Guiffy’s Diff Tool (requires a graphical session)

           gvimdiff
               Use gVim (requires a graphical session) with a custom
               layout (see git help mergetool's BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS
               section)

           gvimdiff1
               Use gVim (requires a graphical session) with a 2 panes
               layout (LOCAL and REMOTE)

           gvimdiff2
               Use gVim (requires a graphical session) with a 3 panes
               layout (LOCAL, MERGED and REMOTE)

           gvimdiff3
               Use gVim (requires a graphical session) where only the
               MERGED file is shown

           kdiff3
               Use KDiff3 (requires a graphical session)

           meld
               Use Meld (requires a graphical session) with optional
               auto merge (see git help mergetool's CONFIGURATION
               section)

           nvimdiff
               Use Neovim with a custom layout (see git help mergetool's
               BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section)

           nvimdiff1
               Use Neovim with a 2 panes layout (LOCAL and REMOTE)

           nvimdiff2
               Use Neovim with a 3 panes layout (LOCAL, MERGED and
               REMOTE)

           nvimdiff3
               Use Neovim where only the MERGED file is shown

           opendiff
               Use FileMerge (requires a graphical session)

           p4merge
               Use HelixCore P4Merge (requires a graphical session)

           smerge
               Use Sublime Merge (requires a graphical session)

           tkdiff
               Use TkDiff (requires a graphical session)

           tortoisemerge
               Use TortoiseMerge (requires a graphical session)

           vimdiff
               Use Vim with a custom layout (see git help mergetool's
               BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section)

           vimdiff1
               Use Vim with a 2 panes layout (LOCAL and REMOTE)

           vimdiff2
               Use Vim with a 3 panes layout (LOCAL, MERGED and REMOTE)

           vimdiff3
               Use Vim where only the MERGED file is shown

           winmerge
               Use WinMerge (requires a graphical session)

           xxdiff
               Use xxdiff (requires a graphical session)

       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 is 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.<vimdiff variant>.layout
           Configure the split window layout for vimdiff’s <variant>,
           which is any of vimdiff, nvimdiff, gvimdiff. Upon launching
           git mergetool with --tool=<variant> (or without --tool if
           merge.tool is configured as <variant>), Git will consult
           mergetool.<variant>.layout to determine the tool’s layout. If
           the variant-specific configuration is not available,
           vimdiff's is used as fallback. If that too is not available,
           a default layout with 4 windows will be used. To configure
           the layout, see the BACKEND SPECIFIC HINTS section in
           git-mergetool(1).

       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 overwritten 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.

       mergetool.guiDefault
           Set true to use the merge.guitool by default (equivalent to
           specifying the --gui argument), or auto to select
           merge.guitool or merge.tool depending on the presence of a
           DISPLAY environment variable value. The default is false,
           where the --gui argument must be provided explicitly for the
           merge.guitool to be used.

       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 the "NOTES MERGE
           STRATEGIES" section of git-notes(1) for more information on
           each strategy.

           This setting can be overridden by passing the --strategy
           option to git-notes(1).

       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
           Which ref (or refs, if a glob or specified more than once),
           in addition to the default set by core.notesRef or
           GIT_NOTES_REF, to read notes from when showing commit
           messages with the git log family of commands.

           This setting can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_DISPLAY_REF
           environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of
           refs or globs.

           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 disabled by the --no-notes option to the
           git log family of commands, or by the --notes=<ref> option
           accepted by those commands.

           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), if this variable is false, git will not copy notes
           from the original to the rewritten commit. Defaults to true.
           See also "notes.rewriteRef" below.

           This setting can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF
           environment variable, which must be a colon separated list of
           refs or globs.

       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. 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.

           Can be overridden with the GIT_NOTES_REWRITE_REF environment
           variable. See notes.rewrite.<command> above for a further
           description of its format.

       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 or "single", and when reachability bitmaps are
           enabled, pack-objects will try to send parts of the bitmapped
           packfile verbatim. When "multi", and when a multi-pack
           reachability bitmap is available, pack-objects will try to
           send parts of all packs in the MIDX.

           If only a single pack bitmap is available, and
           pack.allowPackReuse is set to "multi", reuse parts of just
           the bitmapped packfile. 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 CPUs 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 is 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) and 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.useBitmapBoundaryTraversal
           When true, Git will use an experimental algorithm for
           computing reachability queries with bitmaps. Instead of
           building up complete bitmaps for all of the negated tips and
           then OR-ing them together, consider negated tips with
           existing bitmaps as additive (i.e. OR-ing them into the
           result if they exist, ignoring them otherwise), and build up
           a bitmap at the boundary instead.

           When using this algorithm, Git may include too many objects
           as a result of not opening up trees belonging to certain
           UNINTERESTING commits. This inexactness matches the
           non-bitmap traversal algorithm.

           In many cases, this can provide a speed-up over the exact
           algorithm, particularly when there is poor bitmap coverage of
           the negated side of the query.

       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.

           When writing a multi-pack reachability bitmap, no new
           namehashes are computed; instead, any namehashes stored in an
           existing bitmap are permuted into their appropriate location
           when writing a new bitmap.

       pack.writeBitmapLookupTable
           When true, Git will include a "lookup table" section in the
           bitmap index (if one is written). This table is used to defer
           loading individual bitmaps as late as possible. This can be
           beneficial in repositories that have relatively large bitmap
           indexes. Defaults to false.

       pack.readReverseIndex
           When true, git will read any .rev file(s) that may be
           available (see: gitformat-pack(5)). When false, the reverse
           index will be generated from scratch and stored in memory.
           Defaults to true.

       pack.writeReverseIndex
           When true, git will write a corresponding .rev file (see:
           gitformat-pack(5)) for each new packfile that it writes in
           all places except for git-fast-import(1) and in the bulk
           checkin mechanism. Defaults to true.

       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.

       promisor.quiet
           If set to "true" assume --quiet when fetching additional
           objects for a partial clone.

       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) have a default policy of
           always, known-dangerous protocols (ext) have a default policy
           of never, and all other protocols (including file) 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, see gitprotocol-v2(5).

       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 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.autoSetupRemote
           If set to "true" assume --set-upstream on default push when
           no upstream tracking exists for the current branch; this
           option takes effect with push.default options simple,
           upstream, and current. It is useful if by default you want
           new branches to be pushed to the default remote (like the
           behavior of push.default=current) and you also want the
           upstream tracking to be set. Workflows most likely to benefit
           from this option are simple central workflows where all
           branches are expected to have the same name on the remote.

       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 - push 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
           May be "check", "on-demand", "only", or "no", with the same
           behavior as that of "push --recurse-submodules". 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.

       push.useBitmaps
           If set to "false", disable use of bitmaps for "git push" even
           if pack.useBitmaps is "true", without preventing other git
           operations from using bitmaps. Default is true.

       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 the --autosquash option of
           git-rebase(1) by default for interactive mode. This can be
           overridden with the --no-autosquash option.

       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.updateRefs
           If set to true enable --update-refs option by default.

       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 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.

       rebase.rebaseMerges
           Whether and how to set the --rebase-merges option by default.
           Can be rebase-cousins, no-rebase-cousins, or a boolean.
           Setting to true or to no-rebase-cousins is equivalent to
           --rebase-merges=no-rebase-cousins, setting to rebase-cousins
           is equivalent to --rebase-merges=rebase-cousins, and setting
           to false is equivalent to --no-rebase-merges. Passing
           --rebase-merges on the command line, with or without an
           argument, overrides any rebase.rebaseMerges configuration.

       rebase.maxLabelLength
           When generating label names from commit subjects, truncate
           the names to this length. By default, the names are truncated
           to a little less than NAME_MAX (to allow e.g.  .lock files to
           be written for the corresponding loose refs).

       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 maintenance run
           --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 verify it by using a "nonce"
           protected by HMAC using this string as a secret key.

       receive.certNonceSlop
           When a git push --signed sends 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.

       reftable.blockSize
           The size in bytes used by the reftable backend when writing
           blocks. The block size is determined by the writer, and does
           not have to be a power of 2. The block size must be larger
           than the longest reference name or log entry used in the
           repository, as references cannot span blocks.

           Powers of two that are friendly to the virtual memory system
           or filesystem (such as 4kB or 8kB) are recommended. Larger
           sizes (64kB) can yield better compression, with a possible
           increased cost incurred by readers during access.

           The largest block size is 16777215 bytes (15.99 MiB). The
           default value is 4096 bytes (4kB). A value of 0 will use the
           default value.

       reftable.restartInterval
           The interval at which to create restart points. The reftable
           backend determines the restart points at file creation. Every
           16 may be more suitable for smaller block sizes (4k or 8k),
           every 64 for larger block sizes (64k).

           More frequent restart points reduces prefix compression and
           increases space consumed by the restart table, both of which
           increase file size.

           Less frequent restart points makes prefix compression more
           effective, decreasing overall file size, with increased
           penalties for readers walking through more records after the
           binary search step.

           A maximum of 65535 restart points per block is supported.

           The default value is to create restart points every 16
           records. A value of 0 will use the default value.

       reftable.indexObjects
           Whether the reftable backend shall write object blocks.
           Object blocks are a reverse mapping of object ID to the
           references pointing to them.

           The default value is true.

       reftable.geometricFactor
           Whenever the reftable backend appends a new table to the
           stack, it performs auto compaction to ensure that there is
           only a handful of tables. The backend does this by ensuring
           that tables form a geometric sequence regarding the
           respective sizes of each table.

           By default, the geometric sequence uses a factor of 2,
           meaning that for any table, the next-biggest table must at
           least be twice as big. A maximum factor of 256 is supported.

       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. Changing or clearing this value will only
           affect fetches for new commits. To fetch associated objects
           for commits already present in the local object database, use
           the --refetch option of git-fetch(1).

       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.

       repack.updateServerInfo
           If set to false, git-repack(1) will not run
           git-update-server-info(1). Defaults to true. Can be
           overridden when true by the -n option of git-repack(1).

       repack.cruftWindow, repack.cruftWindowMemory, repack.cruftDepth,
       repack.cruftThreads
           Parameters used by git-pack-objects(1) when generating a
           cruft pack and the respective parameters are not given over
           the command line. See similarly named pack.*  configuration
           variables for defaults and meaning.

       rerere.autoUpdate
           When set to true, git-rerere updates the index with the
           resulting contents after it cleanly resolves conflicts using
           previously recorded resolutions. 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.

       revert.reference
           Setting this variable to true makes git revert behave as if
           the --reference option is given.

       safe.bareRepository
           Specifies which bare repositories Git will work with. The
           currently supported values are:

           •   all: Git works with all bare repositories. This is the
               default.

           •   explicit: Git only works with bare repositories specified
               via the top-level --git-dir command-line option, or the
               GIT_DIR environment variable (see git(1)).

               If you do not use bare repositories in your workflow,
               then it may be beneficial to set safe.bareRepository to
               explicit in your global config. This will protect you
               from attacks that involve cloning a repository that
               contains a bare repository and running a Git command
               within that directory.

               This config setting is only respected in protected
               configuration (see the section called “SCOPES”). This
               prevents untrusted repositories from tampering with this
               value.

       safe.directory
           These config entries specify Git-tracked directories that are
           considered safe even if they are owned by someone other than
           the current user. By default, Git will refuse to even parse a
           Git config of a repository owned by someone else, let alone
           run its hooks, and this config setting allows users to
           specify exceptions, e.g. for intentionally shared
           repositories (see the --shared option in git-init(1)).

           This is a multi-valued setting, i.e. you can add more than
           one directory via git config --add. To reset the list of safe
           directories (e.g. to override any such directories specified
           in the system config), add a safe.directory entry with an
           empty value.

           This config setting is only respected in protected
           configuration (see the section called “SCOPES”). This
           prevents untrusted repositories from tampering with this
           value.

           The value of this setting is interpolated, i.e.  ~/<path>
           expands to a path relative to the home directory and
           %(prefix)/<path> expands to a path relative to Git’s
           (runtime) prefix.

           To completely opt-out of this security check, set
           safe.directory to the string *. This will allow all
           repositories to be treated as if their directory was listed
           in the safe.directory list. If safe.directory=* is set in
           system config and you want to re-enable this protection, then
           initialize your list with an empty value before listing the
           repositories that you deem safe. Giving a directory with /*
           appended to it will allow access to all repositories under
           the named directory.

           As explained, Git only allows you to access repositories
           owned by yourself, i.e. the user who is running Git, by
           default. When Git is running as root in a non Windows
           platform that provides sudo, however, git checks the SUDO_UID
           environment variable that sudo creates and will allow access
           to the uid recorded as its value in addition to the id from
           root. This is to make it easy to perform a common sequence
           during installation "make && sudo make install". A git
           process running under sudo runs as root but the sudo command
           exports the environment variable to record which id the
           original user has. If that is not what you would prefer and
           want git to only trust repositories that are owned by root
           instead, then you can remove the SUDO_UID variable from
           root’s environment before invoking git.

       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.multiEdit
           If true (default), a single editor instance will be spawned
           to edit files you have to edit (patches when --annotate is
           used, and the summary when --compose is used). If false,
           files will be edited one after the other, spawning a new
           editor each time.

       sendemail.confirm
           Sets the default for whether to confirm before sending. Must
           be one of always, never, cc, compose, or auto. See --confirm
           in the git-send-email(1) documentation for the meaning of
           these values.

       sendemail.aliasesFile
           To avoid typing long email addresses, point this to one or
           more email aliases files. You must also supply
           sendemail.aliasFileType.

       sendemail.aliasFileType
           Format of the file(s) specified in sendemail.aliasesFile.
           Must be one of mutt, mailrc, pine, elm, gnus, or sendmail.

           What an alias file in each format looks like can be found in
           the documentation of the email program of the same name. The
           differences and limitations from the standard formats are
           described below:

           sendmail

               •   Quoted aliases and quoted addresses are not
                   supported: lines that contain a " symbol are ignored.

               •   Redirection to a file (/path/name) or pipe (|command)
                   is not supported.

               •   File inclusion (:include: /path/name) is not
                   supported.

               •   Warnings are printed on the standard error output for
                   any explicitly unsupported constructs, and any other
                   lines that are not recognized by the parser.

       sendemail.annotate, sendemail.bcc, sendemail.cc, sendemail.ccCmd,
       sendemail.chainReplyTo, sendemail.envelopeSender, sendemail.from,
       sendemail.headerCmd, 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
           These configuration variables all provide a default for
           git-send-email(1) command-line options. See its documentation
           for details.

       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 to wait before reconnecting to the 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).

       sparse.expectFilesOutsideOfPatterns
           Typically with sparse checkouts, files not matching any
           sparsity patterns are marked with a SKIP_WORKTREE bit in the
           index and are missing from the working tree. Accordingly, Git
           will ordinarily check whether files with the SKIP_WORKTREE
           bit are in fact present in the working tree contrary to
           expectations. If Git finds any, it marks those paths as
           present by clearing the relevant SKIP_WORKTREE bits. This
           option can be used to tell Git that such
           present-despite-skipped files are expected and to stop
           checking for them.

           The default is false, which allows Git to automatically
           recover from the list of files in the index and working tree
           falling out of sync.

           Set this to true if you are in a setup where some external
           factor relieves Git of the responsibility for maintaining the
           consistency between the presence of working tree files and
           sparsity patterns. For example, if you have a Git-aware
           virtual file system that has a robust mechanism for keeping
           the working tree and the sparsity patterns up to date based
           on access patterns.

           Regardless of this setting, Git does not check for
           present-despite-skipped files unless sparse checkout is
           enabled, so this config option has no effect unless
           core.sparseCheckout is true.

       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.

       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
           the description of the 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 the description of the show command in
           git-stash(1).

       stash.showStat
           If this is set to true, the git stash show command without an
           option will show a diffstat of the stash entry. Defaults to
           true. See the description of the show command in
           git-stash(1).

       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
           display 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. All
           usual spellings for Boolean value true are taken as normal
           and false as no. 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.

       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 nor 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 submodule’s
           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. 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.

           The following list shows the commands that accept
           --recurse-submodules and whether they are supported by this
           setting.

           •   checkout, fetch, grep, pull, push, read-tree, reset,
               restore and switch are always supported.

           •   clone and ls-files are not supported.

           •   branch is supported only if submodule.propagateBranches
               is enabled

       submodule.propagateBranches
           [EXPERIMENTAL] A boolean that enables branching support when
           using --recurse-submodules or submodule.recurse=true.
           Enabling this will allow certain commands to accept
           --recurse-submodules and certain commands that already accept
           --recurse-submodules will now consider branches. Defaults to
           false.

       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 doing so 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.credentialsInUrl
           A configured URL can contain plaintext credentials in the
           form <protocol>://<user>:<password>@<domain>/<path>. You may
           want to warn or forbid the use of such configuration (in
           favor of using git-credential(1)). This will be used on
           git-clone(1), git-fetch(1), git-push(1), and any other direct
           use of the configured URL.

           Note that this is currently limited to detecting credentials
           in remote.<name>.url configuration; it won’t detect
           credentials in remote.<name>.pushurl configuration.

           You might want to enable this to prevent inadvertent
           credentials exposure, e.g. because:

           •   The OS or system where you’re running git may not provide
               a way or otherwise allow you to configure the permissions
               of the configuration file where the username and/or
               password are stored.

           •   Even if it does, having such data stored "at rest" might
               expose you in other ways, e.g. a backup process might
               copy the data to another system.

           •   The git programs will pass the full URL to one another as
               arguments on the command-line, meaning the credentials
               will be exposed to other unprivileged users on systems
               that allow them to see the full process list of other
               users. On linux the "hidepid" setting documented in
               procfs(5) allows for configuring this behavior.

               If such concerns don’t apply to you then you probably
               don’t need to be concerned about credentials exposure due
               to storing sensitive data in git’s configuration files.
               If you do want to use this, set transfer.credentialsInUrl
               to one of these values:

           •   allow (default): Git will proceed with its activity
               without warning.

           •   warn: Git will write a warning message to stderr when
               parsing a URL with a plaintext credential.

           •   die: Git will write a failure message to stderr when
               parsing a URL with a plaintext credential.

       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. In order to match refs before
           stripping, add a ^ in front of the ref name. If you combine !
           and ^, !  must be specified first.

           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. If uploadpack.allowRefInWant is set,
           upload-pack will treat want-ref refs/heads/master in a
           protocol v2 fetch command as if
           refs/namespaces/foo/refs/heads/master did not exist.
           receive-pack, on the other hand, will still advertise the
           object id the ref is pointing to without mentioning its name
           (a so-called ".have" line).

           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.

       transfer.bundleURI
           When true, local git clone commands will request bundle
           information from the remote server (if advertised) and
           download bundles before continuing the clone through the Git
           protocol. Defaults to false.

       transfer.advertiseObjectInfo
           When true, the object-info capability is advertised by
           servers. 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 only respected when
           it is specified in protected configuration (see the section
           called “SCOPES”). 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 fields 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. 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. If gpg.format is set to ssh this
           can contain the path to either your private ssh key or the
           public key when ssh-agent is used. Alternatively it can
           contain a public key prefixed with key:: directly (e.g.:
           "key::ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier"). The private key needs to
           be available via ssh-agent. If not set Git will call
           gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand (e.g.: "ssh-add -L") and try to use
           the first key available. For backward compatibility, a raw
           key which begins with "ssh-", such as "ssh-rsa XXXXXX
           identifier", is treated as "key::ssh-rsa XXXXXX identifier",
           but this form is deprecated; use the key:: form instead.

       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 suffix matches 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 suffix starts 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.

BUGS         top

       When using the deprecated [section.subsection] syntax, changing a
       value will result in adding a multi-line key instead of a change,
       if the subsection is given with at least one uppercase character.
       For example when the config looks like

             [section.subsection]
               key = value1

       and running git config section.Subsection.key value2 will result
       in

             [section.subsection]
               key = value1
               key = value2

GIT         top

       Part of the git(1) suite

NOTES         top

        1. the bundle URI design document
           file:///home/mtk/share/doc/git-doc/technical/bundle-uri.html

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