diff --git a/Documentation/config.txt b/Documentation/config.txt
index a32172a43c7369d0fff2a0a0ad32f6fde07149bf..bcf3d21ecb2aa7a2d78d5e9eca82fe1e4e88b5a9 100644
--- a/Documentation/config.txt
+++ b/Documentation/config.txt
@@ -911,6 +911,11 @@ core.commitGraph::
 	Enable git commit graph feature. Allows reading from the
 	commit-graph file.
 
+core.useReplaceRefs::
+	If set to `false`, behave as if the `--no-replace-objects`
+	option was given on the command line. See linkgit:git[1] and
+	linkgit:git-replace[1] for more information.
+
 core.sparseCheckout::
 	Enable "sparse checkout" feature. See section "Sparse checkout" in
 	linkgit:git-read-tree[1] for more information.
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 7968ef7566a1fc28c5d8e2ba99ae87c52fe23ece..5c6d8d17dd6d5321b28d6f4951c241d38b73af15 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -1347,6 +1347,11 @@ static int git_default_core_config(const char *var, const char *value)
 					 var, value);
 	}
 
+	if (!strcmp(var, "core.usereplacerefs")) {
+		read_replace_refs = git_config_bool(var, value);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	/* Add other config variables here and to Documentation/config.txt. */
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/t/t6050-replace.sh b/t/t6050-replace.sh
index aa3e24963967ba4be2394ceeab26f8317fb31b4b..86374a9c52c0bd26a8ba7223526c9e1f128f468a 100755
--- a/t/t6050-replace.sh
+++ b/t/t6050-replace.sh
@@ -113,6 +113,12 @@ test_expect_success 'test GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS env variable' '
      GIT_NO_REPLACE_OBJECTS=1 git show $HASH2 | grep "A U Thor"
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'test core.usereplacerefs config option' '
+	test_config core.usereplacerefs false &&
+	git cat-file commit $HASH2 | grep "author A U Thor" &&
+	git show $HASH2 | grep "A U Thor"
+'
+
 cat >tag.sig <<EOF
 object $HASH2
 type commit