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gui.commitMsgWidth

Defines how wide the commit message window is in the linkgit:git-gui[1]. "75" is the default.

gui.diffContext

Specifies how many context lines should be used in calls to diff made by the linkgit:git-gui[1]. The default is "5".

gui.displayUntracked

Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] shows untracked files in the file list. The default is "true".

gui.encoding

Specifies the default character encoding to use for displaying of file contents in linkgit:git-gui[1] and linkgit:gitk[1]. It can be overridden by setting the 'encoding' attribute for relevant files (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]). If this option is not set, the tools default to the locale encoding.

gui.matchTrackingBranch

Determines if new branches created with linkgit:git-gui[1] should default to tracking remote branches with matching names or not. Default: "false".

gui.newBranchTemplate

Is used as a suggested name when creating new branches using the linkgit:git-gui[1].

gui.pruneDuringFetch

"true" if linkgit:git-gui[1] should prune remote-tracking branches when performing a fetch. The default value is "false".

gui.trustmtime

Determines if linkgit:git-gui[1] should trust the file modification timestamp or not. By default the timestamps are not trusted.

gui.spellingDictionary

Specifies the dictionary used for spell checking commit messages in the linkgit:git-gui[1]. When set to "none" spell checking is turned off.

gui.fastCopyBlame

If true, 'git gui blame' uses -C instead of -C -C for original location detection. It makes blame significantly faster on huge repositories at the expense of less thorough copy detection.

gui.copyBlameThreshold

Specifies the threshold to use in 'git gui blame' original location detection, measured in alphanumeric characters. See the linkgit:git-blame[1] manual for more information on copy detection.

gui.blamehistoryctx

Specifies the radius of history context in days to show in linkgit:gitk[1] for the selected commit, when the Show History Context menu item is invoked from 'git gui blame'. If this variable is set to zero, the whole history is shown.