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1 gui.commitMsgWidth::
2 Defines how wide the commit message window is in the
3 linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.
4
5 gui.diffContext::
6 Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff
7 made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".
8
9 gui.displayUntracked::
10 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] shows untracked files
11 in the file list. The default is "true".
12
13 gui.encoding::
14 Specifies the default character encoding to use for displaying of
15 file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1].
16 It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute
17 for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
18 If this option is not set, the tools default to the
19 locale encoding.
20
21 gui.matchTrackingBranch::
22 Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should
23 default to tracking remote branches with matching names or
24 not. Default: "false".
25
26 gui.newBranchTemplate::
27 Is used as a suggested name when creating new branches using the
28 linkgit:git-gui[1].
29
30 gui.pruneDuringFetch::
31 "true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when
32 performing a fetch. The default value is "false".
33
34 gui.trustmtime::
35 Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] should trust the file modification
36 timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.
37
38 gui.spellingDictionary::
39 Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in
40 the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned
41 off.
42
43 gui.fastCopyBlame::
44 If true, 'git gui blame' uses `-C` instead of `-C -C` for original
45 location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge
46 repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.
47
48 gui.copyBlameThreshold::
49 Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location
50 detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the
51 linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection.
52
53 gui.blamehistoryctx::
54 Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in
55 linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the `Show History
56 Context` menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this
57 variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.