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<h1>gitfaq(7) Manual Page</h1>
<h2 id="_name">NAME</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<p>gitfaq - Frequently asked questions about using Git</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>gitfaq</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>The examples in this FAQ assume a standard POSIX shell, like <code>bash</code> or <code>dash</code>,
and a user, A U Thor, who has the account <code>author</code> on the hosting provider
<code>git.example.org</code>.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_configuration">Configuration</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div id="user-name" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">What should I put in <code>user.name</code>?</dt>
<dd>
<p>You should put your personal name, generally a form using a given name
and family name.  For example, the current maintainer of Git uses "Junio
C Hamano".  This will be the name portion that is stored in every commit
you make.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This configuration doesn&#8217;t have any effect on authenticating to remote services;
for that, see <code>credential.username</code> in <a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="http-postbuffer" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">What does <code>http.postBuffer</code> really do?</dt>
<dd>
<p>This option changes the size of the buffer that Git uses when pushing
data to a remote over HTTP or HTTPS.  If the data is larger than this
size, libcurl, which handles the HTTP support for Git, will use chunked
transfer encoding since it isn&#8217;t known ahead of time what the size of
the pushed data will be.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Leaving this value at the default size is fine unless you know that either the
remote server or a proxy in the middle doesn&#8217;t support HTTP/1.1 (which
introduced the chunked transfer encoding) or is known to be broken with chunked
data.  This is often (erroneously) suggested as a solution for generic push
problems, but since almost every server and proxy supports at least HTTP/1.1,
raising this value usually doesn&#8217;t solve most push problems.  A server or proxy
that didn&#8217;t correctly support HTTP/1.1 and chunked transfer encoding wouldn&#8217;t be
that useful on the Internet today, since it would break lots of traffic.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Note that increasing this value will increase the memory used on every relevant
push that Git does over HTTP or HTTPS, since the entire buffer is allocated
regardless of whether or not it is all used.  Thus, it&#8217;s best to leave it at the
default unless you are sure you need a different value.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="configure-editor" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I configure a different editor?</dt>
<dd>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t specified an editor specifically for Git, it will by default
use the editor you&#8217;ve configured using the <code>VISUAL</code> or <code>EDITOR</code> environment
variables, or if neither is specified, the system default (which is usually
<code>vi</code>).  Since some people find <code>vi</code> difficult to use or prefer a different
editor, it may be desirable to change the editor used.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you want to configure a general editor for most programs which need one, you
can edit your shell configuration (e.g., <code>~/.bashrc</code> or <code>~/.zshenv</code>) to contain
a line setting the <code>EDITOR</code> or <code>VISUAL</code> environment variable to an appropriate
value.  For example, if you prefer the editor <code>nano</code>, then you could write the
following:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>export VISUAL=nano</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you want to configure an editor specifically for Git, you can either set the
<code>core.editor</code> configuration value or the <code>GIT_EDITOR</code> environment variable.  You
can see <a href="git-var.html">git-var(1)</a> for details on the order in which these options are
consulted.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Note that in all cases, the editor value will be passed to the shell, so any
arguments containing spaces should be appropriately quoted.  Additionally, if
your editor normally detaches from the terminal when invoked, you should specify
it with an argument that makes it not do that, or else Git will not see any
changes.  An example of a configuration addressing both of these issues on
Windows would be the configuration "C:\Program <code>Files\Vim\gvim.exe</code>" <code>--nofork</code>,
which quotes the filename with spaces and specifies the <code>--nofork</code> option to
avoid backgrounding the process.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_credentials">Credentials</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div id="http-credentials" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I specify my credentials when pushing over HTTP?</dt>
<dd>
<p>The easiest way to do this is to use a credential helper via the
<code>credential.helper</code> configuration.  Most systems provide a standard
choice to integrate with the system credential manager.  For example,
Git for Windows provides the <code>wincred</code> credential manager, macOS has the
<code>osxkeychain</code> credential manager, and Unix systems with a standard
desktop environment can use the <code>libsecret</code> credential manager.  All of
these store credentials in an encrypted store to keep your passwords or
tokens secure.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In addition, you can use the <code>store</code> credential manager which stores in a file
in your home directory, or the <code>cache</code> credential manager, which does not
permanently store your credentials, but does prevent you from being prompted for
them for a certain period of time.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can also just enter your password when prompted.  While it is possible to
place the password (which must be percent-encoded) in the URL, this is not
particularly secure and can lead to accidental exposure of credentials, so it is
not recommended.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="http-credentials-environment" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I read a password or token from an environment variable?</dt>
<dd>
<p>The <code>credential.helper</code> configuration option can also take an arbitrary
shell command that produces the credential protocol on standard output.
This is useful when passing credentials into a container, for example.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Such a shell command can be specified by starting the option value with an
exclamation point.  If your password or token were stored in the <code>GIT_TOKEN</code>,
you could run the following command to set your credential helper:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>$ git config credential.helper \
        '!f() { echo username=author; echo "password=$GIT_TOKEN"; };f'</pre>
</div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="http-reset-credentials" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I change the password or token I&#8217;ve saved in my credential manager?</dt>
<dd>
<p>Usually, if the password or token is invalid, Git will erase it and
prompt for a new one.  However, there are times when this doesn&#8217;t always
happen.  To change the password or token, you can erase the existing
credentials and then Git will prompt for new ones.  To erase
credentials, use a syntax like the following (substituting your username
and the hostname):</p>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>$ echo url=https://author@git.example.org | git credential reject</pre>
</div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="multiple-accounts-http" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I use multiple accounts with the same hosting provider using HTTP?</dt>
<dd>
<p>Usually the easiest way to distinguish between these accounts is to use
the username in the URL.  For example, if you have the accounts <code>author</code>
and <code>committer</code> on <code>git.example.org</code>, you can use the URLs
<a href="https://author@git.example.org/org1/project1.git" class="bare">https://author@git.example.org/org1/project1.git</a> and
<a href="https://committer@git.example.org/org2/project2.git" class="bare">https://committer@git.example.org/org2/project2.git</a>.  This way, when you
use a credential helper, it will automatically try to look up the
correct credentials for your account.  If you already have a remote set
up, you can change the URL with something like <code>git</code> <code>remote</code> <code>set-url</code>
<code>origin</code> <code>https://author@git.example.org/org1/project1.git</code> (see
<a href="git-remote.html">git-remote(1)</a> for details).</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="multiple-accounts-ssh" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I use multiple accounts with the same hosting provider using SSH?</dt>
<dd>
<p>With most hosting providers that support SSH, a single key pair uniquely
identifies a user.  Therefore, to use multiple accounts, it&#8217;s necessary
to create a key pair for each account.  If you&#8217;re using a reasonably
modern OpenSSH version, you can create a new key pair with something
like <code>ssh-keygen</code> <code>-t</code> <code>ed25519</code> <code>-f</code> <code>~/.ssh/id_committer</code>.  You can then
register the public key (in this case, <code>~/.ssh/id_committer.pub</code>; note
the .<code>pub</code>) with the hosting provider.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Most hosting providers use a single SSH account for pushing; that is, all users
push to the <code>git</code> account (e.g., <code>git@git.example.org</code>).  If that&#8217;s the case for
your provider, you can set up multiple aliases in SSH to make it clear which key
pair to use.  For example, you could write something like the following in
<code>~/.ssh/config</code>, substituting the proper private key file:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre># This is the account for author on git.example.org.
Host example_author
        HostName git.example.org
        User git
        # This is the key pair registered for author with git.example.org.
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_author
        IdentitiesOnly yes
# This is the account for committer on git.example.org.
Host example_committer
        HostName git.example.org
        User git
        # This is the key pair registered for committer with git.example.org.
        IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_committer
        IdentitiesOnly yes</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Then, you can adjust your push URL to use <code>git@example_author</code> or
<code>git@example_committer</code> instead of <code>git@example.org</code> (e.g., <code>git</code> <code>remote</code> <code>set-url</code>
<code>git@example_author:org1/project1.git</code>).</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_transfers">Transfers</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div id="sync-working-tree" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I sync a working tree across systems?</dt>
<dd>
<p>First, decide whether you want to do this at all.  Git works best when you
push or pull your work using the typical <code>git</code> <code>push</code> and <code>git</code> <code>fetch</code> commands
and isn&#8217;t designed to share a working tree across systems.  This is
potentially risky and in some cases can cause repository corruption or data
loss.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Usually, doing so will cause <code>git</code> <code>status</code> to need to re-read every file in the
working tree.  Additionally, Git&#8217;s security model does not permit sharing a
working tree across untrusted users, so it is only safe to sync a working tree
if it will only be used by a single user across all machines.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is important not to use a cloud syncing service to sync any portion of a Git
repository, since this can cause corruption, such as missing objects, changed
or added files, broken refs, and a wide variety of other problems.  These
services tend to sync file by file on a continuous basis and don&#8217;t understand
the structure of a Git repository.  This is especially bad if they sync the
repository in the middle of it being updated, since that is very likely to
cause incomplete or partial updates and therefore data loss.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>An example of the kind of corruption that can occur is conflicts over the state
of refs, such that both sides end up with different commits on a branch that
the other doesn&#8217;t have.  This can result in important objects becoming
unreferenced and possibly pruned by <code>git</code> <code>gc</code>, causing data loss.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Therefore, it&#8217;s better to push your work to either the other system or a central
server using the normal push and pull mechanism.  However, this doesn&#8217;t always
preserve important data, like stashes, so some people prefer to share a working
tree across systems.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If you do this, the recommended approach is to use <code>rsync</code> <code>-a</code> <code>--delete-after</code>
(ideally with an encrypted connection such as with <code>ssh</code>) on the root of
repository.  You should ensure several things when you do this:</p>
</div>
<div class="ulist">
<ul>
<li>
<p>If you have additional worktrees or a separate Git directory, they must be
synced at the same time as the main working tree and repository.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You are comfortable with the destination directory being an exact copy of the
source directory, <em>deleting any data that is already there</em>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The repository (including all worktrees and the Git directory) is in a
quiescent state for the duration of the transfer (that is, no operations of
any sort are taking place on it, including background operations like <code>git</code>
<code>gc</code> and operations invoked by your editor).</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Be aware that even with these recommendations, syncing in this way has some risk
since it bypasses Git&#8217;s normal integrity checking for repositories, so having
backups is advised.  You may also wish to do a <code>git</code> <code>fsck</code> to verify the
integrity of your data on the destination system after syncing.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_common_issues">Common Issues</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div id="last-commit-amend" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">I&#8217;ve made a mistake in the last commit.  How do I change it?</dt>
<dd>
<p>You can make the appropriate change to your working tree, run <code>git</code> <code>add</code>
<em>&lt;file&gt;</em> or <code>git</code> <code>rm</code> <em>&lt;file&gt;</em>, as appropriate, to stage it, and then <code>git</code>
<code>commit</code> <code>--amend</code>.  Your change will be included in the commit, and you&#8217;ll
be prompted to edit the commit message again; if you wish to use the
original message verbatim, you can use the <code>--no-edit</code> option to <code>git</code>
<code>commit</code> in addition, or just save and quit when your editor opens.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="undo-previous-change" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">I&#8217;ve made a change with a bug and it&#8217;s been included in the main branch.  How should I undo it?</dt>
<dd>
<p>The usual way to deal with this is to use <code>git</code> <code>revert</code>.  This preserves
the history that the original change was made and was a valuable
contribution, but also introduces a new commit that undoes those changes
because the original had a problem.  The commit message of the revert
indicates the commit which was reverted and is usually edited to include
an explanation as to why the revert was made.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="ignore-tracked-files" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I ignore changes to a tracked file?</dt>
<dd>
<p>Git doesn&#8217;t provide a way to do this.  The reason is that if Git needs
to overwrite this file, such as during a checkout, it doesn&#8217;t know
whether the changes to the file are precious and should be kept, or
whether they are irrelevant and can safely be destroyed.  Therefore, it
has to take the safe route and always preserve them.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It&#8217;s tempting to try to use certain features of <code>git</code> <code>update-index</code>, namely the
assume-unchanged and skip-worktree bits, but these don&#8217;t work properly for this
purpose and shouldn&#8217;t be used this way.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If your goal is to modify a configuration file, it can often be helpful to have
a file checked into the repository which is a template or set of defaults which
can then be copied alongside and modified as appropriate.  This second, modified
file is usually ignored to prevent accidentally committing it.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="files-in-gitignore-are-tracked" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">I asked Git to ignore various files, yet they are still tracked</dt>
<dd>
<p>A <code>gitignore</code> file ensures that certain file(s) which are not
tracked by Git remain untracked.  However, sometimes particular
file(s) may have been tracked before adding them into the
.<code>gitignore</code>, hence they still remain tracked.  To untrack and
ignore files/patterns, use <code>git</code> <code>rm</code> <code>--cached</code> &lt;file/pattern&gt;
and add a pattern to .<code>gitignore</code> that matches the &lt;file&gt;.
See <a href="gitignore.html">gitignore(5)</a> for details.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="fetching-and-pulling" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I know if I want to do a fetch or a pull?</dt>
<dd>
<p>A fetch stores a copy of the latest changes from the remote
repository, without modifying the working tree or current branch.
You can then at your leisure inspect, merge, rebase on top of, or
ignore the upstream changes.  A pull consists of a fetch followed
immediately by either a merge or rebase.  See <a href="git-pull.html">git-pull(1)</a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="proxy" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">Can I use a proxy with Git?</dt>
<dd>
<p>Yes, Git supports the use of proxies.  Git honors the standard <code>http_proxy</code>,
<code>https_proxy</code>, and <code>no_proxy</code> environment variables commonly used on Unix, and
it also can be configured with <code>http.proxy</code> and similar options for HTTPS (see
<a href="git-config.html">git-config(1)</a>).  The <code>http.proxy</code> and related options can be
customized on a per-URL pattern basis.  In addition, Git can in theory
function normally with transparent proxies that exist on the network.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For SSH, Git can support a proxy using OpenSSH&#8217;s <code>ProxyCommand</code>. Commonly used
tools include <code>netcat</code> and <code>socat</code>.  However, they must be configured not to
exit when seeing EOF on standard input, which usually means that <code>netcat</code> will
require <code>-q</code> and <code>socat</code> will require a timeout with something like <code>-t</code> <code>10</code>.
This is required because the way the Git SSH server knows that no more requests
will be made is an EOF on standard input, but when that happens, the server may
not have yet processed the final request, so dropping the connection at that
point would interrupt that request.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>An example configuration entry in <code>~/.ssh/config</code> with an HTTP proxy might look
like this:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>Host git.example.org
    User git
    ProxyCommand socat -t 10 - PROXY:proxy.example.org:%h:%p,proxyport=8080</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Note that in all cases, for Git to work properly, the proxy must be completely
transparent.  The proxy cannot modify, tamper with, or buffer the connection in
any way, or Git will almost certainly fail to work.  Note that many proxies,
including many TLS middleboxes, Windows antivirus and firewall programs other
than Windows Defender and Windows Firewall, and filtering proxies fail to meet
this standard, and as a result end up breaking Git.  Because of the many
reports of problems and their poor security history, we recommend against the
use of these classes of software and devices.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_merging_and_rebasing">Merging and Rebasing</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div id="long-running-squash-merge" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">What kinds of problems can occur when merging long-lived branches with squash merges?</dt>
<dd>
<p>In general, there are a variety of problems that can occur when using squash
merges to merge two branches multiple times.  These can include seeing extra
commits in <code>git</code> <code>log</code> output, with a GUI, or when using the <code>...</code> notation to
express a range, as well as the possibility of needing to re-resolve conflicts
again and again.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When Git does a normal merge between two branches, it considers exactly three
points: the two branches and a third commit, called the <em>merge base</em>, which is
usually the common ancestor of the commits.  The result of the merge is the sum
of the changes between the merge base and each head.  When you merge two
branches with a regular merge commit, this results in a new commit which will
end up as a merge base when they&#8217;re merged again, because there is now a new
common ancestor.  Git doesn&#8217;t have to consider changes that occurred before the
merge base, so you don&#8217;t have to re-resolve any conflicts you resolved before.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>When you perform a squash merge, a merge commit isn&#8217;t created; instead, the
changes from one side are applied as a regular commit to the other side.  This
means that the merge base for these branches won&#8217;t have changed, and so when Git
goes to perform its next merge, it considers all of the changes that it
considered the last time plus the new changes.  That means any conflicts may
need to be re-resolved.  Similarly, anything using the <code>...</code> notation in <code>git</code>
<code>diff</code>, <code>git</code> <code>log</code>, or a GUI will result in showing all of the changes since the
original merge base.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a consequence, if you want to merge two long-lived branches repeatedly, it&#8217;s
best to always use a regular merge commit.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="merge-two-revert-one" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">If I make a change on two branches but revert it on one, why does the merge of those branches include the change?</dt>
<dd>
<p>By default, when Git does a merge, it uses a strategy called the <code>ort</code>
strategy, which does a fancy three-way merge.  In such a case, when Git
performs the merge, it considers exactly three points: the two heads and a
third point, called the <em>merge base</em>, which is usually the common ancestor of
those commits.  Git does not consider the history or the individual commits
that have happened on those branches at all.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>As a result, if both sides have a change and one side has reverted that change,
the result is to include the change.  This is because the code has changed on
one side and there is no net change on the other, and in this scenario, Git
adopts the change.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>If this is a problem for you, you can do a rebase instead, rebasing the branch
with the revert onto the other branch.  A rebase in this scenario will revert
the change, because a rebase applies each individual commit, including the
revert.  Note that rebases rewrite history, so you should avoid rebasing
published branches unless you&#8217;re sure you&#8217;re comfortable with that.  See the
NOTES section in <a href="git-rebase.html">git-rebase(1)</a> for more details.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_hooks">Hooks</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div id="restrict-with-hooks" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">How do I use hooks to prevent users from making certain changes?</dt>
<dd>
<p>The only safe place to make these changes is on the remote repository
(i.e., the Git server), usually in the <code>pre-receive</code> hook or in a
continuous integration (CI) system.  These are the locations in which
policy can be enforced effectively.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It&#8217;s common to try to use <code>pre-commit</code> hooks (or, for commit messages,
<code>commit-msg</code> hooks) to check these things, which is great if you&#8217;re working as a
solo developer and want the tooling to help you.  However, using hooks on a
developer machine is not effective as a policy control because a user can bypass
these hooks with <code>--no-verify</code> without being noticed (among various other ways).
Git assumes that the user is in control of their local repositories and doesn&#8217;t
try to prevent this or tattle on the user.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>In addition, some advanced users find <code>pre-commit</code> hooks to be an impediment to
workflows that use temporary commits to stage work in progress or that create
fixup commits, so it&#8217;s better to push these kinds of checks to the server
anyway.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_cross_platform_issues">Cross-Platform Issues</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div id="windows-text-binary" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">I&#8217;m on Windows and my text files are detected as binary.</dt>
<dd>
<p>Git works best when you store text files as UTF-8.  Many programs on
Windows support UTF-8, but some do not and only use the little-endian
UTF-16 format, which Git detects as binary.  If you can&#8217;t use UTF-8 with
your programs, you can specify a working tree encoding that indicates
which encoding your files should be checked out with, while still
storing these files as UTF-8 in the repository.  This allows tools like
<a href="git-diff.html">git-diff(1)</a> to work as expected, while still allowing your tools
to work.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>To do so, you can specify a <a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(5)</a> pattern with the
<code>working-tree-encoding</code> attribute.  For example, the following pattern sets all
C files to use UTF-16LE-BOM, which is a common encoding on Windows:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>*.c     working-tree-encoding=UTF-16LE-BOM</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You will need to run <code>git</code> <code>add</code> <code>--renormalize</code> to have this take effect.  Note
that if you are making these changes on a project that is used across platforms,
you&#8217;ll probably want to make it in a per-user configuration file or in the one
in <code>$GIT_DIR/info/attributes</code>, since making it in a .<code>gitattributes</code> file in the
repository will apply to all users of the repository.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>See the following entry for information about normalizing line endings as well,
and see <a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(5)</a> for more information about attribute files.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="windows-diff-control-m" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">I&#8217;m on Windows and git diff shows my files as having a <code>^M</code> at the end.</dt>
<dd>
<p>By default, Git expects files to be stored with Unix line endings.  As such,
the carriage return (<code>^M</code>) that is part of a Windows line ending is shown
because it is considered to be trailing whitespace.  Git defaults to showing
trailing whitespace only on new lines, not existing ones.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can store the files in the repository with Unix line endings and convert
them automatically to your platform&#8217;s line endings.  To do that, set the
configuration option <code>core.eol</code> to <code>native</code> and see
<a href="#recommended-storage-settings">the question on recommended storage settings</a>
for information about how to configure files as text or binary.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>You can also control this behavior with the <code>core.whitespace</code> setting if you
don&#8217;t wish to remove the carriage returns from your line endings.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="always-modified-files-case" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">Why do I have a file that&#8217;s always modified?</dt>
<dd>
<p>Internally, Git always stores file names as sequences of bytes and doesn&#8217;t
perform any encoding or case folding.  However, Windows and macOS by default
both perform case folding on file names.  As a result, it&#8217;s possible to end up
with multiple files or directories whose names differ only in case.  Git can
handle this just fine, but the file system can store only one of these files,
so when Git reads the other file to see its contents, it looks modified.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It&#8217;s best to remove one of the files such that you only have one file.  You can
do this with commands like the following (assuming two files <code>AFile.txt</code> and
<code>afile.txt</code>) on an otherwise clean working tree:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>$ git rm --cached AFile.txt
$ git commit -m 'Remove files conflicting in case'
$ git checkout .</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>This avoids touching the disk, but removes the additional file.  Your project
may prefer to adopt a naming convention, such as all-lowercase names, to avoid
this problem from occurring again; such a convention can be checked using a
<code>pre-receive</code> hook or as part of a continuous integration (CI) system.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>It is also possible for perpetually modified files to occur on any platform if a
smudge or clean filter is in use on your system but a file was previously
committed without running the smudge or clean filter.  To fix this, run the
following on an otherwise clean working tree:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre>$ git add --renormalize .</pre>
</div>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div id="recommended-storage-settings" class="dlist">
<dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">What&#8217;s the recommended way to store files in Git?</dt>
<dd>
<p>While Git can store and handle any file of any type, there are some
settings that work better than others.  In general, we recommend that
text files be stored in UTF-8 without a byte-order mark (BOM) with LF
(Unix-style) endings.  We also recommend the use of UTF-8 (again,
without BOM) in commit messages.  These are the settings that work best
across platforms and with tools such as <code>git</code> <code>diff</code> and <code>git</code> <code>merge</code>.</p>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Additionally, if you have a choice between storage formats that are text based
or non-text based, we recommend storing files in the text format and, if
necessary, transforming them into the other format.  For example, a text-based
SQL dump with one record per line will work much better for diffing and merging
than an actual database file.  Similarly, text-based formats such as Markdown
and AsciiDoc will work better than binary formats such as Microsoft Word and
PDF.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Similarly, storing binary dependencies (e.g., shared libraries or JAR files) or
build products in the repository is generally not recommended.  Dependencies and
build products are best stored on an artifact or package server with only
references, URLs, and hashes stored in the repository.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>We also recommend setting a <a href="gitattributes.html">gitattributes(5)</a> file to explicitly mark
which files are text and which are binary.  If you want Git to guess, you can
set the attribute <code>text=auto</code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>With text files, Git will generally ensure that LF endings are used in the
repository.  The <code>core.autocrlf</code> and <code>core.eol</code> configuration variables specify
what line-ending convention is followed when any text file is checked out.  You
can also use the <code>eol</code> attribute (e.g., <code>eol=crlf</code>) to override which files get
what line-ending treatment.</p>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>For example, generally shell files must have LF endings and batch files must
have CRLF endings, so the following might be appropriate in some projects:</p>
</div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre># By default, guess.
*       text=auto
# Mark all C files as text.
*.c     text
# Ensure all shell files have LF endings and all batch files have CRLF
# endings in the working tree and both have LF in the repo.
*.sh text eol=lf
*.bat text eol=crlf
# Mark all JPEG files as binary.
*.jpg   binary</pre>
</div>
</div>
<div class="paragraph">
<p>These settings help tools pick the right format for output such as patches and
result in files being checked out in the appropriate line ending for the
platform.</p>
</div>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</div>
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<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph">
<p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite</p>
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