auto-sync

By default, Git Town automatically keeps your branches in sync with each other, for example before creating a new branch. This setting allows you to disable this behavior. When disabled, your branches are no longer automatically synced and you need to run git town sync manually to sync them.

CLI flags

In one-off situations you can call commands that sync branches with the --no-sync flag to disable automatic syncing.

If you have automatic syncing disabled permanently via the config file or Git metadata (see below), you can enable it with the --sync flag.

config file

To configure automatic syncing in the configuration file:

[sync]
auto-sync = false

Git metadata

To configure automatic syncing in Git metadata, run this command:

git config [--global] git-town.auto-sync <true|false>

The optional --global flag applies this setting to all Git repositories on your machine. Without it, the setting applies only to the current repository.

environment variable

You can configure auto-sync by setting the GIT_TOWN_AUTO_SYNC environment variable.