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The git configuration file contains a number of variables that affect
-the git command's behavior. `.git/config` file for each repository
-is used to store the information for that repository, and
-`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store per user information to give
-fallback values for `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
-can be used to store system-wide defaults.
-
-They can be used by both the git plumbing
-and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, where
-in the fully qualified variable name the variable itself is the last
+the git command's behavior. The `.git/config` file in each repository
+is used to store the configuration for that repository, and
+`$HOME/.gitconfig` is used to store a per-user configuration as
+fallback values for the `.git/config` file. The file `/etc/gitconfig`
+can be used to store a system-wide default configuration.
+
+The configuration variables are used by both the git plumbing
+and the porcelains. The variables are divided into sections, wherein
+the fully qualified variable name of the variable itself is the last
dot-separated segment and the section name is everything before the last
dot. The variable names are case-insensitive and only alphanumeric
characters are allowed. Some variables may appear multiple times.
the name of the section in square brackets and continues until the next
section begins. Section names are not case sensitive. Only alphanumeric
characters, `-` and `.` are allowed in section names. Each variable
-must belong to some section, which means that there must be section
-header before first setting of a 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 example below:
+in the section header, like in the example below:
--------
[section "subsection"]
--------
-Subsection names can contain any characters except newline (doublequote
-`"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
-respectively) and are case sensitive. Section header cannot span multiple
+Subsection names are case sensitive and can contain any characters except
+newline (doublequote `"` and backslash have to be escaped as `\"` and `\\`,
+respectively). 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 (case insensitive) alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax.
-In this syntax subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section
-name.
+There is also a case insensitive alternative `[section.subsection]` syntax.
+In this syntax, subsection names follow the same restrictions as for section
+names.
All the other lines are recognized as setting variables, in the form
'name = value'. If there is no equal sign on the line, the entire line
'git-config' will ensure that the output is "true" or "false".
String values may be entirely or partially enclosed in double quotes.
-You need to enclose variable value in double quotes if you want to
-preserve leading or trailing whitespace, or if variable value contains
-beginning of comment characters (if it contains '#' or ';').
-Double quote `"` and backslash `\` characters in variable value must
+You need to enclose variable values in double quotes if you want to
+preserve leading or trailing whitespace, or if the variable value contains
+comment characters (i.e. it contains '#' or ';').
+Double quote `"` and backslash `\` characters in variable values must
be escaped: use `\"` for `"` and `\\` for `\`.
The following escape sequences (beside `\"` and `\\`) are recognized:
and `\b` for backspace (BS). No other char escape sequence, nor octal
char sequences are valid.
-Variable value ending in a `\` is continued on the next line in the
+Variable values ending in a `\` are continued on the next line in the
customary UNIX fashion.
-Some variables may require special value format.
+Some variables may require a special value format.
Example
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index comparison to the filesystem data in parallel, allowing
overlapping IO's.
+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.
+
alias.*::
Command aliases for the linkgit:git[1] command wrapper - e.g.
after defining "alias.last = cat-file commit HEAD", the invocation
A boolean to enable/disable colored output when the pager is in
use (default is true).
+color.showbranch::
+ A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
+ linkgit:git-show-branch[1]. May be set to `always`,
+ `false` (or `never`) or `auto` (or `true`), in which case colors are used
+ only when the output is to a terminal. Defaults to false.
+
color.status::
A boolean to enable/disable color in the output of
linkgit:git-status[1]. May be set to `always`,
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