Can I comment out a line in a .git/config file?

git proxy config
n370 picture n370 · Jan 23, 2014 · Viewed 43.5k times · Source

I have a http.proxy line on my repository configuration file that I would like to 'turn on and off' easily without having to remember and type again the whole configuration every time I'm behind or free from this proxied connection.

Another possibility would be to use this repository configuration file when I'm behind the proxy and when not, use a global/local configuration file without any proxy setup.

Answer

Chris picture Chris · Jan 23, 2014

Yes, you can comment lines out of Git config files using # or ;.

From the documentation:

Syntax

The syntax is fairly flexible and permissive; whitespaces are mostly ignored. The # and ; characters begin comments to the end of line, blank lines are ignored.

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