status.relativePaths:: By default, linkgit:git-status[1] shows paths relative to the current directory. Setting this variable to `false` shows paths relative to the repository root (this was the default for Git prior to v1.5.4). status.short:: Set to true to enable --short by default in linkgit:git-status[1]. The option --no-short takes precedence over this variable. status.branch:: Set to true to enable --branch by default in linkgit:git-status[1]. The option --no-branch takes precedence over this variable. status.aheadBehind:: Set to true to enable `--ahead-behind` and false to enable `--no-ahead-behind` by default in linkgit:git-status[1] for non-porcelain status formats. Defaults to true. status.displayCommentPrefix:: If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will insert a comment prefix before each output line (starting with `core.commentChar`, i.e. `#` by default). This was the behavior of linkgit:git-status[1] in Git 1.8.4 and previous. Defaults to false. status.renameLimit:: The number of files to consider when performing rename detection in linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1]. Defaults to the value of diff.renameLimit. status.renames:: Whether and how Git detects renames in linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] . If set to "false", rename detection is disabled. If set to "true", basic rename detection is enabled. If set to "copies" or "copy", Git will detect copies, as well. Defaults to the value of diff.renames. status.showStash:: If set to true, linkgit:git-status[1] will display the number of entries currently stashed away. Defaults to false. status.showUntrackedFiles:: By default, linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1] show files which are not currently tracked by Git. Directories which contain only untracked files, are shown with the directory name only. Showing untracked files means that Git needs to lstat() all the files in the whole repository, which might be slow on some systems. So, this variable controls how the commands displays the untracked files. Possible values are: + -- * `no` - Show no untracked files. * `normal` - Show untracked files and directories. * `all` - Show also individual files in untracked directories. -- + If this variable is not specified, it defaults to 'normal'. This variable can be overridden with the -u|--untracked-files option of linkgit:git-status[1] and linkgit:git-commit[1]. status.submoduleSummary:: Defaults to false. If this is set to a non zero number or true (identical to -1 or an unlimited number), the submodule summary will be enabled and a summary of commits for modified submodules will be shown (see --summary-limit option of linkgit:git-submodule[1]). Please note that the summary output command will be suppressed for all submodules when `diff.ignoreSubmodules` is set to 'all' or only for those submodules where `submodule..ignore=all`. The only exception to that rule is that status and commit will show staged submodule changes. To also view the summary for ignored submodules you can either use the --ignore-submodules=dirty command-line option or the 'git submodule summary' command, which shows a similar output but does not honor these settings.