# Configuration files

The configuration files are parsed in this order:

/etc/git-buildpackage/gbp.conf | system wide configuration
~/.gbp.conf | per user configuration
.gbp.conf | per repository/branch configuration (deprecated)
debian/gbp.conf | per repository/branch configuration
.git/gbp.conf | per (local) repository configuration

All have the same format. They consist of several sections, all of them are optional:

[DEFAULT] | Options in this section apply to gbp buildpackage, gbp import-orig, gbp import-dsc and gbp dch.
[buildpackage] | Options in this section apply to gbp buildpackage only and override options from the [DEFAULT] section.
[import-orig] | Options in this section apply to gbp import-orig only and override options from the [DEFAULT] section.
[import-dsc] | Options in this section apply to gbp import-dsc only and override options from the [DEFAULT] section.
[dch] | Options in this section apply to gbp dch only and override options from the [DEFAULT] section.
... | Same for the other gbp commands

The actual options in these sections are the command line options without the '--' prefix. So `--upstream-branch=``dfsgfree` would read:

    upstream-branch=dfsgfree

in the config file. In the special case of gbp buildpackage, the stripped prefix is not '--' but '--git-'. Here's a more complete example:

    [DEFAULT]
    # the default build command
    builder=debuild -i\.git -I.git
    # the default branch for upstream sources
    upstream-branch=upstream
    # the default branch for the debian patch
    debian-branch=master

    [buildpackage]
    upstream-branch=dfsgclean
    # Sign tags with GPG:
    sign-tags = True
    # Keyid to sign tags with
    #keyid = 0xdeadbeef

    [import-orig]
    upstream-branch=notdfsgclean

    [import-dsc]
    upstream-branch=notdfsgclean

    [dch]
    git-log=--no-merges

For more details, see the gbp.conf(5)> manual page.