[git] How do I show my global Git configuration?

I'd like to show all configured Git sections.

I only found git config --get core.editor, and I'd like to output everything that's configured globally, not only the configured default editor.

To find all configurations, you just write this command:

git config --list

In my local i run this command .

Md Masud@DESKTOP-3HTSDV8 MINGW64 ~
$ git config --list
core.symlinks=false
core.autocrlf=true
core.fscache=true
color.diff=auto
color.status=auto
color.branch=auto
color.interactive=true
help.format=html
rebase.autosquash=true
http.sslcainfo=C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
http.sslbackend=openssl
diff.astextplain.textconv=astextplain
filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean -- %f
filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge -- %f
filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
filter.lfs.required=true
credential.helper=manager
[email protected]
filter.lfs.smudge=git-lfs smudge -- %f
filter.lfs.process=git-lfs filter-process
filter.lfs.required=true
filter.lfs.clean=git-lfs clean -- %f

git config --list

is one way to go. I usually just open up .gitconfig though.

You can also call git config -e to open the configuration file in your editor directly. The Git configuration file is much more readable that the -l output, so I always tend to use the -e flag.

So to summarise:

git config -l  # List Git configuration settings (same as --list)
git config -e  # Opens Git configuration in the default editor (same as --edit)

• Without parameters it interacts with the local .git/config.
• With --global it interacts with ~/.gitconfig.
• And with --system it interacts with $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig.

(I couldn't really find what $(prefix) means, but it seems to default to $HOME.)

On Linux-based systems you can view/edit a configuration file by

vi/vim/nano .git/config

Make sure you are inside the Git init folder.

If you want to work with --global config, it's

vi/vim/nano .gitconfig

on /home/userName

This should help with editing: https://help.github.com/categories/setup/

The shortest,

git config -l

shows all inherited values from: system, global and local

One important thing about git config:

git config has --local, --global and --system levels and corresponding files.

So you may use git config --local, git config --global and git config --system.

By default, git config will write to a local level if no configuration option is passed. Local configuration values are stored in a file that can be found in the repository's .git directory: .git/config

Global level configuration is user-specific, meaning it is applied to an operating system user. Global configuration values are stored in a file that is located in a user's home directory. ~/.gitconfig on Unix systems and C:\Users\<username>\.gitconfig on Windows.

System-level configuration is applied across an entire machine. This covers all users on an operating system and all repositories. The system level configuration file lives in a gitconfig file off the system root path. $(prefix)/etc/gitconfig on Linux systems. On Windows this file can be found in C:\ProgramData\Git\config.

So your option is to find that global .gitconfig file and edit it.

Or you can use git config --global --list.

This is exactly the line what you need.

If you just want to list one part of the Git configuration, such as alias, core, remote, etc., you could just pipe the result through grep. Something like:

git config --global -l | grep core

Git 2.6 (Sept/Oct 2015) will add the option --name-only to simplify the output of a git config -l:

See commit a92330d, commit f225987, commit 9f1429d (20 Aug 2015) by Jeff King (peff).
See commit ebca2d4 (20 Aug 2015), and commit 905f203, commit 578625f (10 Aug 2015) by SZEDER Gábor (szeder).
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit fc9dfda, 31 Aug 2015)}

config: add '--name-only' option to list only variable names

'git config' can only show values or name-value pairs, so if a shell script needs the names of set config variables it has to run 'git config --list' or '--get-regexp' and parse the output to separate config variable names from their values.
However, such a parsing can't cope with multi-line values.

Though 'git config' can produce null-terminated output for newline-safe parsing, that's of no use in such a case, because shells can't cope with null characters.

Even our own bash completion script suffers from these issues.

Help the completion script, and shell scripts in general, by introducing the '--name-only' option to modify the output of '--list' and '--get-regexp' to list only the names of config variables, so they don't have to perform error-prone post processing to separate variable names from their values anymore.

Since Git 2.26.0, you can use --show-scope option:

git config --list --show-scope

Example output:

system  rebase.autosquash=true
system  credential.helper=helper-selector
global  core.editor='code.cmd' --wait -n
global  merge.tool=kdiff3
local   core.symlinks=false
local   core.ignorecase=true

It can be combined with

• --local for project config, --global for user config, --system for all users' config
• --show-origin to show the exact config file location

You can also use cat ~/.gitconfig.

How do I edit my global Git configuration?

Short answer: git config --edit --global

To understand Git configuration, you should know that:

Git configuration variables can be stored at three different levels. Each level overrides values at the previous level.

1. System level (applied to every user on the system and all their repositories)

• to view, git config --list --system (may need sudo)
• to set, git config --system color.ui true
• to edit system config file, git config --edit --system

2. Global level (values specific personally to you, the user).

• to view, git config --list --global
• to set, git config --global user.name xyz
• to edit global config file, git config --edit --global

3. Repository level (specific to that single repository)

• to view, git config --list --local
• to set, git config --local core.ignorecase true (--local optional)
• to edit repository config file, git config --edit --local (--local optional)

How do I view all settings?

• Run git config --list, showing system, global, and (if inside a repository) local configs
• Run git config --list --show-origin, also shows the origin file of each config item

How do I read one particular configuration?

• Run git config user.name to get user.name, for example.
• You may also specify options --system, --global, --local to read that value at a particular level.

Reference: 1.6 Getting Started - First-Time Git Setup