git config

git config get and set repository or global options

• Doc: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config
• Configuration file: $HOME/.gitconfig

• git config --list
• git config --list --show-origin
• git config --global
• git config --global --list
• git config --global --edit

• Set your username:

git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"

• Set your email address:

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

• git config --local credential.helper "" (will prompt for username and password)

Turn off the SSL validation

• git config --global http.sslVerify false

Git indexing fails due to bad pack header :

• git config --global pack.windowMemory "100m"
• git config --global pack.SizeLimit "100m"
• git config --global pack.threads "1"

• git config pull.rebase false # merge (the default strategy)
• git config pull.rebase true # rebase
• git config pull.ff only # fast-forward only

git config --global core.askpass "git-gui--askpass"
(no output)

• git config --global sendpack.sideband false

• git config push.default tracking

git config gc.auto 0

Related commands

• git fsck --full
• git push
• git config --global credential.helper cache
• git remote

See also

• git config, .git/config, ~/.gitconfig, --list, --global, Usage: git config, credential.helper
• git: [config | init | status ], git add, git rm, git commit, git push, git pull, .gitconfig, .gitignore, git (clone, fetch, pull), git tag, git log, git blame, Merge Request, LFS, git branch, git apply, git rebase, git diff, git diff-tree, git config --global, remote | submodule | request-pull, GIT_TRACE, GIT_CURL_VERBOSE, clean, main, git show-ref, git reset, git prune, git ls-remote origin, git checkout, git switch, pathspec, git credential-osxkeychain, git version, pre-commit, git --help, GitBook, refs/

https://confluence.atlassian.com/fishkb/git-indexing-fails-due-to-bad-pack-header-371360062.html