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GCLI(5) File Formats Manual 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 configura- tion that contains sensible default values for a given repository. The latter is meant to be checked into the repository and provide these de- fault values to other users as well. User Configuration File The user configuration file is located in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/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 con- sists 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 follow- ing keys: editor Path to a default editor. This might be overridden by the envi- ronment variable EDITOR. pager Name of the default pager when interactively displaying large output. May be overridden by the environment variable PAGER. If none of the above are specified, less(1) is used as a sane default pager. github-default-account Section name of a default GitHub account to use whenever the account is unspecified on the command line or in the environ- ment. 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 environ- ment. See GCLI_ACCOUNT in gcli(1). gitea-default-account Section name of a default Gitea account to use whenever the ac- count is unspecified on the command line or in the environment. See GCLI_ACCOUNT in gcli(1). disable-spinner Disable the progress spinner in the ui. gcli uses this when making requests. This can also be set, and overridden with the GCLI_NOSPINNER environment variable. url-open-program Name of a program in the PATH to open URLs with. Defaults to xdg-open which uses your default web browser. Note that the program name may not contain any arguments. If you need to pass any arguments to the program you must write a wrapper script. restrict-pipelines-to-branch This setting makes the gcli-pipelines(1) subcommand behave slightly differently when listing branches. Setting this to `yes' causes gcli to determine the currently checked out branch and queries only pipelines for this branch. See also gcli-pipelines(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 • bugzilla 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 bugzilla https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla account (optional) The username used to authenticate at the API. token (optional) A generated application token to use with this account. The gcli tutorial at https://herrhotzenplotz.de/gcli/tutorial has some documen- tation on how to generate thes tokens. 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 reposi- tory. The Repository-local configuration file is located in the root direc- tory 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 re- quest source branch to get deleted when merging a pull re- quest 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 defin- ition 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 pager=less github-default-account=herrhotzenplotz-gh gitlab-default-account=herrhotzenplotz-gitlab } herrhotzenplotz-gh { account=herrhotzenplotz token=foobar api-base=https://api.github.com forge-type=github } herrhotzenplotz-gl { account=herrhotzenplotz token=<valid gitlab api token> api-base=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), less(1), xdg-open(1) AUTHORS Nico Sonack aka. herrhotzenplotz <nsonack@herrhotzenplotz.de> and con- tributors. BUGS Please report bugs via E-Mail to https://lists.sr.ht/~herrhotzenplotz/gcli-discuss. Alternatively you can report them on any of the forges linked at https://sr.ht/~herrhotzenplotz/gcli. However, the preferred and quick- est method is to use the mailing list. gcli 2.11.0 21-Mar-2026 GCLI(5)
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