How to configure global git config in Bitbucket Server
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Summary
There will be some instances where you would want to configure some git parameters to all the repositories in the Bitbucket server. This article explains how you can configure such global git config settings.
Environment
Bitbucket Server/Data Center running on Linux/unix environment.
Solution
If you want to set the parameters for all the repositories you can either use the --global parameter or the --system parameter. Since you may be using a different user to login to the server and a different user to start Bitbucket, we suggest you use the --system parameter.
This will write to system-wide $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig rather than the repository .git/config.
For example, if you would like to set the configurations for the parameters like pack.windowmemory, pack.packsizelimit and pack.threads globally, you can use the below commands.
sudo git config --system pack.threads "1"
sudo git config --system pack.packSizeLimit "100m"
sudo git config --system pack.windowMemory "100m"If you need any more clarifications on this, please reach out to Atlassian support.