glab(1)

💅 glab(1) — okay bestie, this is the glab config set page

Hi hi! So this is a page from the glab manual (that's the GitLab CLI, iykyk), and specifically it's all about the glab config set command. Buckle up, it's short but it's mighty ✨

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🌸 NAME

glab-config-set — updates configuration with the value of a given key. That's literally the whole job, and it does it slayfully 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS

glab config set   [flags]

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✨ DESCRIPTION

Okay so here's the tea 🍵 — use glab config set --global to write to the global configuration. And if you specify the --host flag, that also saves to the global configuration file.

And listen, this part matters: keys that glab manages for itself are always written to the global configuration, even if you don't pass --global. No cap — glab keeps its own stuff in the global file, periodt.

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🦋 OPTIONS

• -g, --global[=false] — write to the global ~/.config/glab-cli/config.yml file instead of the repository's .git/glab-cli/config.yml file 🫶
• --host="" — set a per-host setting. That's it, that's the vibe 👑

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💜 OPTIONS INHERITED FROM PARENT COMMANDS

• -h, --help[=false] — show help for this command. Iconic, helpful, always there for you 🥹

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🌈 EXAMPLE

Okay bestie, examples are the main character energy of any manpage, so here you go — exactly as written:

glab config set editor vim
glab config set token xxxxx --host gitlab.com
glab config set check_update false --global

Look at those three lines just existing and being useful. Ate, honestly. 🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO

• glab-config(1) — go check out the parent command, it's giving family reunion 🎀

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💖 little reminder: --global goes to ~/.config/glab-cli/config.yml, no --global goes to .git/glab-cli/config.yml, and --host always lands in the global one. Also glab's own keys are always global. Simple! Gorgeous! Slay! ✨

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Auto generated by spf13/cobra, dated Nov 2026, and that's the whole manual page from the glab(1) set — mwah, bye bestie! 💅🌸💖