Section 5: file formats
gitweb.conf – Gitweb (Git web interface) configuration file Synopsis /etc/gitweb.conf, /etc/gitweb-common.conf, $GITWEBDIR/gitweb_config.perl Description The gitweb CGI script for viewing Git repositories over the web uses a perl script fragment as its configuration file. You can set variables using "our $variable = value"; text from a "#" character until the end of a line is ignored….
gitweb.conf – Gitweb (Git web interface) configuration file Synopsis /etc/gitweb.conf, /etc/gitweb-common.conf, $GITWEBDIR/gitweb_config.perl Description The gitweb CGI script for viewing Git repositories over the web uses a perl script fragment as its configuration file. You can set variables using "our $variable = value"; text from a "#" character until the end of a line is ignored….
gitrepository-layout – Git Repository Layout Synopsis $GIT_DIR/* Description A Git repository comes in two different flavours: • a .git directory at the root of the working tree; • a <project>.git directory that is a bare repository (i.e. without its own working tree), that is typically used for exchanging histories with others by pushing into it…
gitmodules – Defining submodule properties Synopsis $GIT_WORK_TREE/.gitmodules Description The .gitmodules file, located in the top-level directory of a Git working tree, is a text file with a syntax matching the requirements of git-config(1). The file contains one subsection per submodule, and the subsection value is the name of the submodule. The name is set to…
gitmailmap – Map author/committer names and/or E-Mail addresses Synopsis $GIT_WORK_TREE/.mailmap Description If the file .mailmap exists at the toplevel of the repository, or at the location pointed to by the mailmap.file or mailmap.blob configuration options (see git-config(1)), it is used to map author and committer names and email addresses to canonical real names and email…
gitignore – Specifies intentionally untracked files to ignore Synopsis $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/git/ignore, $GIT_DIR/info/exclude, .gitignore Description A gitignore file specifies intentionally untracked files that Git should ignore. Files already tracked by Git are not affected; see the NOTES below for details. Each line in a gitignore file specifies a pattern. When deciding whether to ignore a path, Git…
githooks – Hooks used by Git Synopsis $GIT_DIR/hooks/* (or `git config core.hooksPath`/*) Description Hooks are programs you can place in a hooks directory to trigger actions at certain points in git’s execution. Hooks that don’t have the executable bit set are ignored. By default the hooks directory is $GIT_DIR/hooks, but that can be changed via…
gitattributes – Defining attributes per path Synopsis $GIT_DIR/info/attributes, .gitattributes Description A gitattributes file is a simple text file that gives attributes to pathnames. Each line in gitattributes file is of form: pattern attr1 attr2 … That is, a pattern followed by an attributes list, separated by whitespaces. Leading and trailing whitespaces are ignored. Lines that…
gimprc – gimp configuration file Description The gimprc file is a configuration file read by GIMP when it starts up. There are two of these: one system-wide one stored in /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc and a per-user $HOME/.gimp-2.8/gimprc which may override system settings. Comments are introduced by a hash sign (#), and continue until the end of the…
gimprc – gimp configuration file Description The gimprc file is a configuration file read by GIMP when it starts up. There are two of these: one system-wide one stored in /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc and a per-user $HOME/.gimp-2.8/gimprc which may override system settings. Comments are introduced by a hash sign (#), and continue until the end of the…
gimprc – gimp configuration file Description The gimprc file is a configuration file read by GIMP when it starts up. There are two of these: one system-wide one stored in /etc/gimp/2.0/gimprc and a per-user $HOME/.gimp-2.8/gimprc which may override system settings. Comments are introduced by a hash sign (#), and continue until the end of the…
ggz.modules – GGZ Gaming Zone module configuration file Description The GGZ Gaming Zone uses the file ggz.modules in order to configure which game modules are properly installed. The only approved method of altering this file is using the ggz-config utility, however the file structure is documented here in order to facilitate manual repairs if necessary….
ggz.modules – GGZ Gaming Zone module configuration file Description The GGZ Gaming Zone uses the file ggz.modules in order to configure which game modules are properly installed. The only approved method of altering this file is using the ggz-config utility, however the file structure is documented here in order to facilitate manual repairs if necessary….
gfs2 – GFS2 reference guide Synopsis Overview of the GFS2 filesystem Description GFS2 is a clustered filesystem, designed for sharing data between multiple nodes connected to a common shared storage device. It can also be used as a local filesystem on a single node, however since the design is aimed at clusters, that will usually…
geoclue.conf – geoclue configuration parameters Synopsis /etc/geoclue/geoclue.conf Description The geoclue geoclue.conf configuration file specifies parameters that control the operation of geoclue. All configurations settings below are mandatory and the defaults are what you see before you edit them in geoclue.conf. If you want to keep the default values around, copy and comment out the appropriate…
genisoimagerc – startup configuration file for genisoimage Description genisoimage(1) searches for a configuration file in several places; it uses the first one it is able to open. First, if the GENISOIMAGERC environment variable is set, its value is used as the filename; likewise for the MKISOFSRC environment variable. Next, genisoimage looks for files named .genisoimagerc…
generic – Postfix generic table format Synopsis postmap /etc/postfix/generic postmap -q "string" /etc/postfix/generic postmap -q – /etc/postfix/generic <inputfile Description The optional generic(5) table specifies an address mapping that applies when mail is delivered. This is the opposite of canonical(5) mapping, which applies when mail is received. Typically, one would use the generic(5) table on a…
Gemfile – A format for describing gem dependencies for Ruby programs Synopsis A Gemfile describes the gem dependencies required to execute associated Ruby code. Place the Gemfile in the root of the directory containing the associated code. For instance, in a Rails application, place the Gemfile in the same directory as the Rakefile. Syntax A…
gdbinit – GDB initialization scripts Synopsis /etc/gdb/gdbinit /etc/gdb/gdbinit.d/* ~/.config/gdb/gdbinit ~/.gdbinit ./.gdbinit Description These files contain GDB commands to automatically execute during GDB startup. The lines of contents are canned sequences of commands, described in the GDB manual in node "Sequences" — shell command "info -f gdb -n Sequences". Please read more in the GDB manual…
$(sysconfdir)/libgda/config – libgda global configuration file. $(HOME)/.libgda/config – libgda user configuration file. Description The config file of libgda is an XML file. The document starts with <libgda-config> tag, which contains sections that hold the configured database providers for libgda. The values in the global configuration file are overriden by the ones in the user configuration…