GCLI(5)

NAME
gcli - gcli configuration file formats

DESCRIPTION
gcli has two different configuration files. A user configuration file that contains default values for gcli and a repository-local configuration that contains sensible default values for a given repository. The latter is meant to be checked into the repository and provide these default values to other users as well.

  User Configuration File
The user configuration file is located in ${XDG_CONFIG_DIR}/gcli/config. On most systems this equal to ${HOME}/.config/gcli/config.

The user configuration file contains definitions for accounts as well as sensible default values for things like an editor.

The file is structured in sections, each section has a name and consists of a collection of key-value pairs. E.g.:

    section-name {
    	key1 = value 1
    	key2 = value 2
    }

There must be a section named “defaults” which may contain the following keys:

editor
    Path to a default editor. This might be overridden by the environment variable EDITOR.

github-default-account
    Section name of a default GitHub account to use whenever the account is unspecified on the command line or in the environment. See GCLI_ACCOUNT in gcli(1).

gitlab-default-account
    Section name of a default GitLab account to use whenever the account is unspecified on the command line or in the environment. See GCLI_ACCOUNT in gcli(1).

gitea-default-account
    Section name of a default Gitea account to use whenever the account is unspecified on the command line or in the environment. See GCLI_ACCOUNT in gcli(1).

All other sections define accounts for forges. Each of these account definitions have the account name as their section name and may have one or more of the following keys defined:

forge-type
    The type of the forge. May be one of:
    •   github
    •   gitlab
    •   gitea

api-base
    (optional) Used to override the API base URL of the forge. This is useful for self-hosted instances. Depending on the “forge-type” the default values are:
    forge-type | default value
    github | https://api.github.com
    gitlab | https://gitlab.com/api/v4
    gitea | https://codeberg.org/api/v1

account
    (optional) The username used to authenticate at the API.

token
    (optional) A generated application token to use with this account. TODO: Document for each forge how to generate these.

  Repository Local Configuration File
For repository-local configuration you can use a special configuration file. It contains definitions for gcli that are specific to the repository.

The Repository-local configuration file is located in the root directory of the repository and should be named .gcli.

It contains a list of key-value pairs. Allowed keys are:

pr.base
    Name of a branch that the changes should be merged into by default. Usually this is one of master, main or trunk.

pr.upstream
    Name of the upstream repository to submit the pull request to by default. This is a pair of the format “owner/repository”.

pr.inhibit-delete-source-branch
    If defined and set to “yes” this will prevent the pull request source branch to get deleted when merging a pull request by default.

forge-type
    When hosting on multiple forges this can be set to a type that will be used as a default when other overrides are unspecified. For possible values see the equivalent definition in User Configuration File.

EXAMPLES

  User Configuration File
An example for the user configuration file consisting of both a Github and a Gitlab account:

    defaults {
    	editor=/path/to/ganoooo/emacs
    	github-default-account=herrhotzenplotz-gh
    	gitlab-default-account=herrhotzenplotz-gitlab
    }
    herrhotzenplotz-gh {
    	account=herrhotzenplotz
    	token=foobar
    	apibase=https://api.github.com
    	forge-type=github
    }
    herrhotzenplotz-gl {
    	account=herrhotzenplotz
    	token=<valid gitlab api token>
    	apibase=https://gitlab.com/api/v4
    	forge-type=gitlab
    }

Notice that this allows you to run gcli and force it to use a specific Gitlab account. E.g.:

    $ gcli -a herrhotzenplotz-gl issues -a

  Repository-Local Configuration file
The .gcli file for the gcli project itself looks like this:

    pr.upstream=herrhotzenplotz/gcli
    pr.base=trunk
    pr.inhibit-delete-source-branch=yes

SEE ALSO
git(1), gcli(1)

AUTHORS
Nico Sonack aka. herrhotzenplotz <nsonack@herrhotzenplotz.de> and contributors.

BUGS
Please report bugs via E-Mail to ~herrhotzenplotz/gcli-discuss@lists.sr.ht.

Alternatively you can report them on any of the forges linked at https://herrhotzenplotz.de/gcli. However, the preferred and quickest method is to use the mailing list.