git-config-set(1) =============== NAME ---- git-config-set - Set options in .git/config. SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-config-set' name [value [value_regex]] 'git-config-set' --replace-all name [value [value_regex]] 'git-config-set' --get name [value_regex] 'git-config-set' --get-all name [value_regex] 'git-config-set' --unset name [value_regex] 'git-config-set' --unset-all name [value_regex] DESCRIPTION ----------- 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. If you want to set/unset an option which can occor on multiple lines, you should provide a POSIX regex for the value. If you want to handle the lines *not* matching the regex, just prepend a single exlamation mark in front (see EXAMPLES). This command will fail if . .git/config is invalid, . .git/config can not be written to, . no section was provided, . the section or key is invalid, . you try to unset an option which does not exist, or . you try to unset/set an option for which multiple lines match. OPTIONS ------- --replace-all:: Default behaviour is to replace at most one line. This replaces all lines matching the key (and optionally the value_regex) --get:: Get the value for a given key (optionally filtered by a regex matching the value). --get-all:: Like get, but does not fail if the number of values for the key is not exactly one. --unset:: Remove the line matching the key from .git/config. --unset-all:: Remove all matching lines from .git/config. EXAMPLE ------- 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/gnu-diff -u" renames = true ; Proxy settings [proxy] command="ssh" for "ssh://kernel.org/" command="proxy-command" for kernel.org command="myprotocol-command" for "my://" command=default-proxy ; for all the rest you can set the filemode to true with ------------ % git config-set core.filemode true ------------ The hypothetic proxy command entries actually have a postfix to discern to what URL they apply. Here is how to change the entry for kernel.org to "ssh". ------------ % git config-set proxy.command '"ssh" for kernel.org' 'for kernel.org$' ------------ This makes sure that only the key/value pair for kernel.org is replaced. To delete the entry for renames, do ------------ % git config-set --unset diff.renames ------------ If you want to delete an entry for a multivar (like proxy.command above), you have to provide a regex matching the value of exactly one line. To query the value for a given key, do ------------ % git config-set --get core.filemode ------------ or ------------ % git config-set core.filemode ------------ or, to query a multivar: ------------ % git config-set --get proxy.command "for kernel.org$" ------------ If you want to know all the values for a multivar, do: ------------ % git config-set --get-all proxy.command ------------ If you like to live dangerous, you can replace *all* proxy.commands by a new one with ------------ % git config-set --replace-all proxy.command 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 proxy.command ssh '! for ' ------------ To actually match only values with an exclamation mark, you have to ------------ % git config-set section.key value '[!]' ------------ Author ------ Written by Johannes Schindelin Documentation -------------- Documentation by Johannes Schindelin. GIT --- Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite