Reference: Configuration

Reference: Configuration

Setting a different remote repo

A remote repo different from .origin. can be specified in the config file:

$ git config gitflow.origin myorigin

Set git specific environment variables.

With git you can set environment variables to change the default behavior of git. You can set these environment variables just for git-flow.

These environment variables can be set in the file .gitflow_export in your home directory. Example of a .gitflow_export file:

export GIT_MERGE_AUTOEDIT=no

Change behavior of gitflow through configuration settings

• Starting a hotfix, support, or release branch with a dirty tree.
  By default you can not start one when your working tree is dirty. You can change this behavior by setting the following configuration.
  git config --bool --set gitflow.allowdirty
  This can be set like any other git configuration, global, system, or local.

Configuration variables to set flags

The configuration variables are named as follows: gitflow.<command>.<subcommand>.<flags> All variables should be in lower caps.

If the variable is a boolean the following values are valid, the case does not matter:

• Y
• YES
• T
• TRUE
• N
• NO
• F
• FALSE

If the variable represents a string surround the value with double quotes.

This is an overview per command of configuration variables you can set. The list is in the form variable - flag - valid value
For reading improvement the prefix gitflow. is not shown here but should be used when you set the variable.

git-flow bugfix

bugfix.start.fetch - fetch - boolean

bugfix.finish.fetch - fetch - boolean
bugfix.finish.rebase - rebase - boolean
bugfix.finish.preserve-merges - preserve-merges - boolean
bugfix.finish.push - push - boolean
bugfix.finish.keep - keep - boolean
bugfix.finish.keepremote - keepremote - boolean
bugfix.finish.keeplocal - keeplocal - boolean
bugfix.finish.force-delete - force_delete - boolean
bugfix.finish.squash - squash - boolean
bugfix.finish.squash-info - squash-info - boolean
bugfix.finish.no-ff - no-ff - boolean

bugfix.rebase.interactive - interactive - boolean
bugfix.rebase.preserve-merges - preserve-merges - boolean

bugfix.delete.force - force - boolean
bugfix.delete.remote - remote - boolean

git-flow feature

feature.start.fetch - fetch - boolean

feature.finish.fetch - fetch - boolean
feature.finish.rebase - rebase - boolean
feature.finish.preserve-merges - preserve-merges - boolean
feature.finish.push - push - boolean
feature.finish.keep - keep - boolean
feature.finish.keepremote - keepremote - boolean
feature.finish.keeplocal - keeplocal - boolean
feature.finish.force-delete - force_delete - boolean
feature.finish.squash - squash - boolean
feature.finish.squash-info - squash-info - boolean
feature.finish.no-ff - no-ff - boolean

feature.rebase.interactive - interactive - boolean
feature.rebase.preserve-merges - preserve-merges - boolean

feature.delete.force - force - boolean
feature.delete.remote - remote - boolean

git-flow hotfix

hotfix.start.fetch - fetch - boolean

hotfix.finish.fetch - fetch - boolean
hotfix.finish.sign - sign - boolean
hotfix.finish.push - push - boolean
hotfix.finish.keep - keep - boolean
hotfix.finish.keepremote - keepremote - boolean
hotfix.finish.keeplocal - keeplocal - boolean
hotfix.finish.force-delete - force-delete - boolean
hotfix.finish.notag - notag - boolean
hotfix.finish.nobackmerge - nobackmerge - boolean
hotfix.finish.signingkey - signingkey - string
hotfix.finish.message - message - string
hotfix.finish.messagefile - messagefile - string

hotfix.rebase.interactive - interactive - boolean
hotfix.rebase.preserve-merges - preserve-merges - boolean

hotfix.delete.force - force - boolean

git-flow init

init.defaults - defaults - boolean

git-flow release

release.start.fetch - fetch - boolean

release.finish.fetch - fetch - boolean
release.finish.sign - sign - boolean
release.finish.push - push - boolean
release.finish.keep - keep - boolean
release.finish.keepremote - keepremote - boolean
release.finish.keeplocal - keeplocal - boolean
release.finish.force-delete - force-delete - boolean
release.finish.notag - notag - boolean
release.finish.nobackmerge - nobackmerge - boolean
release.finish.squash - squash - boolean
release.finish.squash-info - squash-info - boolean
release.finish.signingkey - signingkey - string
release.finish.message - message - string
release.finish.messagefile - messagefile - string

release.branch.fetch - fetch - boolean
release.branch.sign - sign - boolean
release.branch.push - push - boolean
release.branch.notag - notag - boolean
release.branch.squash - squash - boolean
release.branch.squash-info - squash-info - boolean
release.branch.signingkey - signingkey - string
release.branch.message - message - string
release.branch.messagefile - messagefile - string

release.rebase.interactive - interactive - boolean
release.rebase.preserve-merges - preserve-merges - boolean

release.delete.fetch - fetch - boolean
release.delete.remote - remote - boolean

git-flow support

support.start.fetch - fetch - boolean

support.rebase.interactive - interactive - boolean
support.rebase.preserve-merges - preserve-merges - boolean

Example

You can set these variables using the git config command

git config gitflow.release.finish.fetch yes

gitflow follows the same pattern for reading the options as git config. You can use the options --system, --global, --local to write to that location and gitflow will behave similar in reading the configuration as git.