.. _c-git-compatibility:

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C Git Compatibility
========================

This document lists Git functionality and indicates what Dulwich supports.
Dulwich is a pure Python implementation of Git that provides wire-format
and repository format compatibility with C Git.

Legend:

* ✓ - Fully supported
* ◐ - Partially supported
* ✗ - Not supported

Main Porcelain Commands
========================

Repository Management
---------------------

* ✓ ``git init`` - Initialize repository
* ✓ ``git clone`` - Clone repository
* ✓ ``git config`` - Read and write configuration

Working with Files
------------------

* ✓ ``git add`` - Add file contents to the index
* ✓ ``git rm`` - Remove files from working tree and index
* ✓ ``git mv`` - Move or rename file, directory, or symlink
* ✓ ``git restore`` - Restore working tree files
* ✓ ``git reset`` - Reset current HEAD to specified state
* ✓ ``git clean`` - Remove untracked files

Commits
-------

* ✓ ``git commit`` - Record changes to the repository
* ✓ ``git show`` - Show various types of objects
* ✓ ``git log`` - Show commit logs
* ✓ ``git shortlog`` - Summarize git log output
* ✓ ``git describe`` - Describe a commit using the most recent tag
* ✓ ``git annotate`` - Annotate file lines with commit information
* ✓ ``git blame`` - Show what revision and author last modified each line
* ✗ ``git citool`` - Graphical alternative to git-commit
* ✗ ``gitk`` - Git repository browser

Branches
--------

* ✓ ``git branch`` - List, create, or delete branches
* ✓ ``git checkout`` - Switch branches or restore working tree files
* ✓ ``git switch`` - Switch branches
* ✓ ``git show-branch`` - Show branches and their commits
* ✓ ``git worktree`` - Manage multiple working trees

Tags
----

* ✓ ``git tag`` - Create, list, delete, or verify tags
* ✓ ``git verify-tag`` - Check GPG/SSH signature of tags
* ✓ ``git verify-commit`` - Check GPG/SSH signature of commits

Merging
-------

* ✓ ``git merge`` - Join two or more development histories
* ✓ ``git merge-base`` - Find common ancestor for merge
* ✗ ``git mergetool`` - Run merge conflict resolution tool interactively
* ✓ ``git rebase`` - Reapply commits on top of another base tip
* ◐ ``git rebase -i`` - Interactive rebase (limited support)
* ✓ ``git cherry-pick`` - Apply changes introduced by existing commits
* ✓ ``git revert`` - Revert existing commits
* ✓ ``git cherry`` - Find commits not merged upstream

Remotes
-------

* ✓ ``git fetch`` - Download objects and refs from another repository
* ✓ ``git pull`` - Fetch from and integrate with another repository
* ✓ ``git push`` - Update remote refs along with associated objects
* ✓ ``git remote`` - Manage set of tracked repositories
* ✓ ``git ls-remote`` - List references in a remote repository

Inspection
----------

* ✓ ``git status`` - Show the working tree status
* ✓ ``git diff`` - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
* ✓ ``git grep`` - Print lines matching a pattern
* ✓ ``git bisect`` - Use binary search to find commit that introduced a bug

Patching
--------

* ✓ ``git format-patch`` - Prepare patches for email submission
* ✓ ``git am`` - Apply series of patches from mailbox
* ✓ ``git apply`` - Apply patch to files
* ✓ ``git mailsplit`` - Simple UNIX mbox splitter program
* ✓ ``git mailinfo`` - Extracts patch and authorship from a single email
* ✗ ``git send-email`` - Send collection of patches as emails
* ✗ ``git request-pull`` - Generate summary of pending changes

Debugging
---------

* ✓ ``git fsck`` - Verify connectivity and validity of objects
* ✓ ``git check-ignore`` - Debug gitignore / exclude files
* ✓ ``git check-mailmap`` - Show canonical names and email addresses
* ✗ ``git instaweb`` - Instantly browse your working repository

Administration
--------------

* ✓ ``git gc`` - Cleanup unnecessary files and optimize repository
* ✓ ``git reflog`` - Manage reflog information
* ✓ ``git filter-branch`` - Rewrite branches
* ✓ ``git maintenance`` - Run tasks to optimize Git repository data
* ✓ ``git prune`` - Prune all unreachable objects
* ✓ ``git repack`` - Pack unpacked objects in a repository
* ✓ ``git count-objects`` - Count unpacked number of objects

Server Side
-----------

* ✓ ``git daemon`` - A really simple server for Git repositories
* ✓ ``git update-server-info`` - Update auxiliary info file
* ✓ ``git upload-pack`` - Send objects packed back to git-fetch-pack
* ✓ ``git receive-pack`` - Receive what is pushed into the repository

Other
-----

* ✓ ``git archive`` - Create archive of files from named tree
* ✓ ``git bundle`` - Create, unpack, and manipulate bundle files
* ✓ ``git stash`` - Stash changes in dirty working directory
* ✓ ``git submodule`` - Initialize, update or inspect submodules
* ✓ ``git subtree`` - Manage subtrees in repository
* ✓ ``git notes`` - Add or inspect object notes
* ✓ ``git replace`` - Create, list, delete refs to replace objects
* ✓ ``git rerere`` - Reuse recorded resolution of conflicted merges
* ✓ ``git help`` - Display help information
* ◐ ``git fast-export`` - Export repository data (API only, see fastexport module)
* ◐ ``git fast-import`` - Import repository data (API only, see fastexport module)
* ✗ ``git gui`` - Portable graphical interface to Git
* ✗ ``git web--browse`` - Launch web browser to view HTML documentation
* ✗ ``git difftool`` - Show changes using external diff tool
* ✗ ``git range-diff`` - Compare two commit ranges
* ✗ ``git bugreport`` - Collect information for bug reports
* ✓ ``git diagnose`` - Display diagnostic information about the environment
* ✗ ``git fsmonitor--daemon`` - Filesystem monitor daemon
* ✗ ``git scalar`` - Manage large Git repositories

Plumbing Commands
=================

Manipulation
------------

* ✓ ``git apply`` - Apply patch to files
* ◐ ``git checkout-index`` - Copy files from index to working tree (API only)
* ✓ ``git commit-tree`` - Create new commit object
* ✓ ``git hash-object`` - Compute object ID
* ◐ ``git index-pack`` - Build pack index file (API only)
* ◐ ``git merge-file`` - Run three-way file merge (API only)
* ✓ ``git merge-tree`` - Show three-way merge without touching index
* ✓ ``git mktag`` - Create tag object
* ✓ ``git pack-objects`` - Create packed archive of objects
* ◐ ``git prune-packed`` - Remove extra objects (API only)
* ◐ ``git read-tree`` - Read tree information into index (API only)
* ✓ ``git symbolic-ref`` - Read, modify and delete symbolic refs
* ✓ ``git unpack-objects`` - Unpack objects from packed archive
* ◐ ``git update-index`` - Register file contents in working tree to index (API only)
* ✓ ``git update-ref`` - Update object name stored in a ref
* ✓ ``git write-tree`` - Create tree object from current index
* ✗ ``git mktree`` - Build tree object from ls-tree formatted text

Interrogation
-------------

* ✓ ``git cat-file`` - Provide content or type and size information
* ◐ ``git diff-files`` - Compare files in working tree and index (API only)
* ◐ ``git diff-index`` - Compare content and mode of blobs (API only)
* ✓ ``git diff-tree`` - Compare content and mode of trees
* ✓ ``git for-each-ref`` - Output information on each ref
* ✓ ``git ls-files`` - Show information about files in index and working tree
* ✓ ``git ls-remote`` - List references in remote repository
* ✓ ``git ls-tree`` - List contents of tree object
* ✓ ``git merge-base`` - Find common ancestor
* ◐ ``git name-rev`` - Find symbolic names for revisions (API only)
* ✓ ``git pack-refs`` - Pack heads and tags for efficient repository access
* ✓ ``git rev-list`` - List commit objects in reverse chronological order
* ✓ ``git rev-parse`` - Pick out and massage parameters (see also objectspec module)
* ✓ ``git show-index`` - Show packed archive index
* ✓ ``git show-ref`` - List references in local repository
* ✓ ``git var`` - Show Git logical variable
* ◐ ``git verify-pack`` - Validate packed Git archive files (API only, see pack module)

Syncing
-------

* ◐ ``git fetch-pack`` - Receive missing objects from another repository (CLI available)
* ◐ ``git http-fetch`` - Download from remote Git repository via HTTP (API only)
* ◐ ``git send-pack`` - Push objects over Git protocol to another repository (API only)
* ✓ ``git update-server-info`` - Update auxiliary info for dumb servers
* ✗ ``git http-push`` - Push objects over HTTP to another repository
* ✗ ``git upload-archive`` - Send archive back to git-archive

Pack Management
---------------

* ◐ ``git multi-pack-index`` - Manage multi-pack-index (API only, see midx module)

Internal Helpers
----------------

* ◐ ``git check-attr`` - Display gitattributes information (API only, see attrs module)
* ✓ ``git check-ignore`` - Debug gitignore / exclude files
* ✓ ``git check-mailmap`` - Show canonical names and email addresses
* ✓ ``git column`` - Display data in columns
* ◐ ``git credential`` - Retrieve and store user credentials (basic support)
* ✗ ``git fmt-merge-msg`` - Produce merge commit message
* ✓ ``git interpret-trailers`` - Add or parse structured information in commit messages
* ✓ ``git mailinfo`` - Extract patch and authorship from single email message
* ✓ ``git mailsplit`` - Simple UNIX mbox splitter
* ✗ ``git merge-one-file`` - Standard helper program to use with git-merge-index
* ◐ ``git patch-id`` - Compute unique ID for patch (API only, see patch module)
* ✓ ``git stripspace`` - Remove unnecessary whitespace
* ✗ ``git sh-setup`` - Common Git shell script setup code
* ✗ ``git sh-i18n`` - Git's i18n setup code for shell scripts

File Formats & Protocols
=========================

Repository Format
-----------------

* ✓ Object storage (loose objects)
* ✓ Pack files (.pack)
* ✓ Pack indexes (.idx)
* ✓ Multi-pack index (.midx)
* ✓ Pack bitmaps
* ✓ Commit graphs
* ✓ SHA-1 object format
* ✓ SHA-256 object format
* ✓ Reftable format

Configuration Files
-------------------

* ✓ .git/config
* ✓ .gitignore
* ✓ .gitattributes
* ✓ .mailmap
* ✓ .git/info/exclude
* ✓ .git/info/attributes
* ✓ .gitmodules

Ref Storage
-----------

* ✓ Loose refs (refs/heads/, refs/tags/, etc.)
* ✓ Packed refs (packed-refs)
* ✓ Reflog
* ✓ Reftable

Network Protocols
-----------------

* ✓ SSH protocol
* ✓ Git protocol (git://)
* ✓ HTTP/HTTPS (smart protocol)
* ✓ HTTP/HTTPS (dumb protocol)
* ✓ File protocol (file://)
* ✓ Local repositories
* ◐ Protocol v2 (client fully supported, server limited)

Transfer Capabilities
---------------------

Fetch/Upload-Pack:

* ✓ thin-pack - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ ofs-delta - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ multi_ack - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ multi_ack_detailed - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ side-band-64k - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ shallow - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ deepen-since - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ deepen-not - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ deepen-relative - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ include-tag - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ◐ no-progress - Server: ✓, Client: ✗
* ✓ symref - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ◐ filter - Server: ✓, Client: ◐ (basic support)

Push/Receive-Pack:

* ✓ report-status - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ delete-refs - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ quiet - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ atomic - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ ofs-delta - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ push-options - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ side-band-64k - Server: ✓, Client: ✓

General:

* ✓ object-format - Server: ✓, Client: ✓
* ✓ agent - Server: ✓, Client: ✓

Protocol v2 Specific:

* ✓ ls-refs - Server: ✗, Client: ✓
* ✓ packfile-uris - Server: ✗, Client: ✓
* ✓ bundle-uri - Server: ✗, Client: ✓

Advanced Features
=================

Signatures
----------

* ✓ GPG commit signing
* ✓ GPG tag signing
* ✓ GPG signature verification (verify-commit, verify-tag)
* ✓ SSH commit signing
* ✓ SSH tag signing
* ✓ SSH signature verification
* ✓ X509 commit signing
* ✓ X509 tag signing
* ✓ X509 signature verification

Filters & Attributes
--------------------

* ✓ Clean/smudge filters
* ✓ Text/binary detection
* ✓ End-of-line conversion (CRLF/LF)
* ✓ .gitattributes processing
* ✗ Working tree encoding
* ✓ Whitespace handling

Hooks
-----

* ✓ Hook execution
* ✓ pre-commit
* ✗ prepare-commit-msg
* ✓ commit-msg
* ✓ post-commit
* ✗ pre-rebase
* ✗ post-checkout
* ✗ post-merge
* ✗ pre-push
* ✓ pre-receive
* ✓ update
* ✓ post-receive
* ✗ post-update
* ✗ push-to-checkout

Git LFS
-------

* ✓ git-lfs init
* ✓ git-lfs track
* ✓ git-lfs untrack
* ✓ git-lfs ls-files
* ✓ git-lfs fetch
* ✓ git-lfs pull
* ✓ git-lfs push
* ✗ git-lfs checkout
* ✓ git-lfs clean (filter)
* ✓ git-lfs smudge (filter)
* ✓ git-lfs pointer - Check LFS pointers
* ✓ git-lfs migrate
* ✓ git-lfs status
* ✓ LFS server implementation
* ✓ LFS batch API

Sparse Checkout
---------------

* ✓ Sparse checkout patterns
* ✓ Cone mode
* ✓ git sparse-checkout init - Cone mode
* ✓ git sparse-checkout set - Cone mode
* ✓ git sparse-checkout add - Cone mode
* ✓ git sparse-checkout list - List current patterns
* ✓ git sparse-checkout disable - Disable sparse checkout
* ✗ git sparse-checkout reapply

Worktrees
---------

* ✓ git worktree add
* ✓ git worktree list
* ✓ git worktree remove
* ✓ git worktree prune
* ✓ git worktree lock
* ✓ git worktree unlock
* ✓ git worktree move
* ✓ git worktree repair

Submodules
----------

* ✓ git submodule add
* ✓ git submodule init
* ✓ git submodule update
* ◐ git submodule status (basic)
* ✗ git submodule summary
* ✗ git submodule foreach
* ✗ git submodule sync
* ✗ git submodule deinit
* ✗ git submodule absorbgitdirs

Subtree
-------

* ✓ git subtree add
* ✓ git subtree merge
* ✓ git subtree pull
* ✓ git subtree push
* ✓ git subtree split

Notes
-----

* ✓ git notes add
* ✓ git notes list
* ✓ git notes show
* ✓ git notes remove
* ✗ git notes append
* ✗ git notes copy
* ✗ git notes merge
* ✗ git notes prune
* ✗ git notes get-ref

Other Advanced Features
-----------------------

* ✓ Rerere (reuse recorded resolution)
* ✓ Commit graph
* ✓ Replace objects
* ✓ Grafts
* ✓ Info/alternates (alternate object databases)
* ✓ Partial clone/fetch
* ✓ Shallow clone/fetch
* ✓ Bundle files (create, read, write, verify)
* ✓ Bundle URI support (for faster clones and fetches)
* ✓ Fast-import/fast-export
* ✗ Scalar
* ◐ Partial clone with object filters (basic blob:none support)

Web Interface
=============

* ✓ Gitweb-like interface (dulwich.web)
* ✓ WSGI application support
* ✗ cgit
* ✗ GitWeb (Perl implementation)

Configuration Options
=====================

Core (core.*)
-------------

* ✓ ``core.autocrlf`` - Automatic CRLF line ending conversion
* ✓ ``core.bare`` - Bare repository flag
* ✓ ``core.commentChar`` - Comment character for commit messages
* ✓ ``core.commitGraph`` - Enable commit graph
* ✓ ``core.compression`` - Object compression level
* ✓ ``core.deltaBaseCacheLimit`` - Memory limit for delta base cache
* ✓ ``core.editor`` - Default editor
* ✓ ``core.eol`` - Line ending style
* ✓ ``core.excludesFile`` - Global gitignore file
* ✓ ``core.filemode`` - Honor executable bit
* ✓ ``core.fsyncObjectFiles`` - Fsync object files to disk
* ✓ ``core.gitProxy`` - Proxy command for git:// connections
* ✓ ``core.ignorecase`` - Case-insensitive filename matching
* ✓ ``core.looseCompression`` - Compression level for loose objects
* ✓ ``core.maxStat`` - Limit stat operations
* ✓ ``core.multiPackIndex`` - Enable multi-pack index
* ✓ ``core.packedGitLimit`` - Memory limit for mmapped pack files
* ✓ ``core.pager`` - Pager program
* ✓ ``core.precomposeunicode`` - NFD to NFC Unicode normalization (macOS)
* ✓ ``core.preloadIndex`` - Preload index for performance
* ✓ ``core.protectHFS`` - Protect against HFS+ vulnerabilities
* ✓ ``core.protectNTFS`` - Protect against NTFS vulnerabilities
* ✓ ``core.repositoryformatversion`` - Repository format version
* ✓ ``core.safecrlf`` - Safe CRLF checks
* ✓ ``core.sharedRepository`` - Shared repository permissions
* ✓ ``core.sparseCheckoutCone`` - Sparse checkout cone mode
* ✓ ``core.sshCommand`` - SSH command override
* ✓ ``core.symlinks`` - Create symlinks
* ✓ ``core.trustctime`` - Trust ctime in index
* ✗ ``core.abbrev`` - Abbreviate object names
* ✗ ``core.fsmonitor`` - File system monitor daemon
* ✗ ``core.hooksPath`` - Custom hooks location
* ✗ ``core.quotePath`` - Quoting of paths with special characters
* ✗ ``core.splitIndex`` - Enable split index
* ✗ ``core.untrackedCache`` - Enable untracked file cache
* ✗ ``core.whitespace`` - Whitespace error highlighting
* ✗ ``core.worktree`` - Working directory path override

User (user.*)
-------------

* ✓ ``user.email`` - User email address
* ✓ ``user.name`` - User name
* ✓ ``user.signingkey`` - GPG/SSH signing key

Branch (branch.*)
-----------------

* ✓ ``branch.autoSetupMerge`` - Auto setup merge tracking
* ✓ ``branch.sort`` - Branch sorting
* ✓ ``branch.<name>.merge`` - Tracking branch merge ref
* ✓ ``branch.<name>.remote`` - Tracking branch remote
* ✗ ``branch.<name>.pushRemote`` - Remote to push to
* ✗ ``branch.<name>.rebase`` - Rebase when pulling this branch
* ✗ ``branch.<name>.description`` - Branch description

Remote (remote.*)
-----------------

* ✓ ``remote.<name>.url`` - Remote URL
* ✓ ``remote.<name>.pushInsteadOf`` - Push URL rewriting

HTTP (http.*)
-------------

* ✓ ``http.extraHeader`` - Extra HTTP headers (supports per-URL)
* ✓ ``http.proxy`` - HTTP proxy server
* ✓ ``http.proxyAuthMethod`` - HTTP proxy auth method
* ✓ ``http.sslCAInfo`` - SSL CA certificate file
* ✓ ``http.sslVerify`` - Verify SSL certificates
* ✓ ``http.timeout`` - HTTP timeout
* ✓ ``http.userAgent`` - User-Agent header (supports per-URL)
* ✗ ``http.cookieFile`` - Cookie jar file
* ✗ ``http.lowSpeedLimit`` - Abort if speed falls below limit
* ✗ ``http.lowSpeedTime`` - Time for low speed detection
* ✗ ``http.postBuffer`` - Max HTTP POST buffer size
* ✗ ``http.sslBackend`` - SSL backend
* ✗ ``http.sslVersion`` - SSL version
* ✗ ``http.version`` - HTTP protocol version

Pack (pack.*)
-------------

* ✓ ``pack.bigFileThreshold`` - Large file threshold
* ✓ ``pack.deltaCacheSize`` - Delta cache size
* ✓ ``pack.deltaWindowSize`` - Delta window size
* ✓ ``pack.depth`` - Pack depth
* ✓ ``pack.indexVersion`` - Pack index version
* ✓ ``pack.threads`` - Number of pack threads
* ✓ ``pack.windowMemory`` - Window memory limit
* ✓ ``pack.writeBitmaps`` - Write bitmap indexes
* ✓ ``pack.writeBitmapHashCache`` - Write bitmap hash cache
* ✓ ``pack.writeBitmapLookupTable`` - Write bitmap lookup table

GC (gc.*)
---------

* ✓ ``gc.auto`` - Auto garbage collection
* ✓ ``gc.autoPackLimit`` - Auto pack limit
* ✓ ``gc.logExpiry`` - Log expiry period
* ✓ ``gc.pruneExpire`` - Unreachable object prune grace period

GPG/Signing (gpg.*)
--------------------

* ✓ ``commit.gpgSign`` - Sign commits by default
* ✓ ``gpg.format`` - Signature format (openpgp, x509, ssh)
* ✓ ``gpg.minTrustLevel`` - Minimum GPG trust level
* ✓ ``gpg.program`` - GPG program path
* ✓ ``gpg.ssh.allowedSignersFile`` - SSH allowed signers file
* ✓ ``gpg.ssh.defaultKeyCommand`` - SSH default key command
* ✓ ``gpg.ssh.program`` - SSH signing program
* ✓ ``gpg.ssh.revocationFile`` - SSH revocation file
* ✓ ``gpg.x509.program`` - X.509 signing program
* ✓ ``tag.gpgSign`` - Sign tags by default

Extensions (extensions.*)
-------------------------

* ✓ ``extensions.objectformat`` - Object format (SHA-1/SHA-256)
* ✓ ``extensions.relativeworktrees`` - Relative worktree paths
* ✓ ``extensions.worktreeconfig`` - Worktree-specific config

Diff/Merge/Status
------------------

* ✓ ``merge.<name>.driver`` - Merge driver command
* ✗ ``diff.algorithm`` - Diff algorithm (patience, histogram, etc.)
* ✗ ``diff.context`` - Default context lines
* ✗ ``diff.external`` - External diff tool
* ✗ ``diff.noprefix`` - Omit a/b prefixes
* ✗ ``diff.submodule`` - Submodule diff format
* ✗ ``merge.conflictStyle`` - Conflict marker style (merge, diff3, zdiff3)
* ✗ ``merge.tool`` - Default merge tool
* ✗ ``status.showUntrackedFiles`` - Show untracked files

Pull/Push/Fetch/Rebase
-----------------------

* ✗ ``fetch.fsckObjects`` - Validate object integrity on fetch
* ✗ ``fetch.prune`` - Auto-prune deleted remote branches
* ✗ ``fetch.pruneTags`` - Auto-prune deleted remote tags
* ✗ ``pull.ff`` - Fast-forward only on pull
* ✗ ``pull.rebase`` - Rebase instead of merge on pull
* ✗ ``push.default`` - Default push strategy
* ✗ ``push.followTags`` - Push annotated tags
* ✗ ``rebase.autoStash`` - Auto-stash before rebase
* ✗ ``transfer.fsckObjects`` - Validate object integrity on transfer

Credentials
-----------

* ✓ Credential store file support (``~/.git-credentials``)
* ✗ ``credential.helper`` - Credential helper programs
* ✗ ``credential.useHttpPath`` - Include path in credential lookup

Other
-----

* ✓ ``clean.requireForce`` - Require force for clean
* ✓ ``feature.manyFiles`` - Many files optimization
* ✓ ``filter.<name>.clean`` - Clean filter command
* ✓ ``filter.<name>.process`` - Long-running process filter
* ✓ ``filter.<name>.required`` - Filter required flag
* ✓ ``filter.<name>.smudge`` - Smudge filter command
* ✓ ``i18n.commitEncoding`` - Commit message encoding
* ✓ ``index.skipHash`` - Skip hash in index
* ✓ ``index.version`` - Index version
* ✓ ``init.defaultBranch`` - Default branch name
* ✓ ``lfs.url`` - LFS server URL
* ✓ ``maintenance.<task>.enabled`` - Task enabled flag
* ✓ ``maintenance.<task>.schedule`` - Task schedule
* ✓ ``maintenance.repo`` - Maintenance repository
* ✓ ``maintenance.strategy`` - Maintenance strategy
* ✓ ``notes.displayRef`` - Notes display reference
* ✓ ``rerere.autoupdate`` - Auto update rerere
* ✓ ``rerere.enabled`` - Enable rerere
* ✓ ``sequence.editor`` - Sequence editor (for interactive rebase)
* ✓ ``url.<base>.insteadOf`` - URL rewriting
* ✓ ``url.<base>.pushInsteadOf`` - Push URL rewriting
* ✗ ``advice.*`` - Advice/hint messages
* ✗ ``alias.*`` - Command aliases
* ✗ ``color.*`` - Colorization settings
* ✗ ``commit.cleanup`` - Commit message cleanup mode
* ✗ ``commit.template`` - Commit message template file
* ✗ ``format.pretty`` - Default pretty-print format
* ✗ ``log.abbrevCommit`` - Abbreviate commits in log
* ✗ ``receive.fsckObjects`` - Validate received objects
* ✗ ``tag.sort`` - Default tag sorting

Known Limitations
=================

The following Git features are not currently supported:

* Git GUIs (gitk, git-gui, git-citool)
* Email workflow tools (git-send-email, git-request-pull)
* Interactive tools (git-difftool, git-mergetool)
* Newer features (range-diff, scalar, fsmonitor--daemon)
* Full protocol v2 server support (client is fully supported)
* Some plumbing commands (mktree, http-push, upload-archive, fmt-merge-msg, merge-one-file)
* Full submodule feature parity (basic operations supported)
* Some advanced object filtering options (basic filters supported)
* Most git hooks (only pre-commit, commit-msg, post-commit, pre-receive, update, post-receive supported)
* Working tree encoding attribute

Compatibility Notes
===================

Repository Compatibility
------------------------

Dulwich maintains full wire-format and on-disk repository format compatibility
with C Git. This means:

* Dulwich can read and write repositories created by C Git
* C Git can read and write repositories created by Dulwich
* Dulwich and C Git can be used interchangeably on the same repository
* Network protocols are fully compatible

See Also
========

* :ref:`tutorial-index` - Tutorial for using Dulwich
* :ref:`protocol` - Git protocol documentation
* :mod:`dulwich.porcelain` - High-level API reference
